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Access to Bloomberg, Lexis, and Westlaw for Winter Grads

Winter Grads still have access to these great databases for some time after graduation!

LexisNexis
Access: Winter graduates have access to Lexis Advance via their law school IDs through July 31, 2019. This ID also grants access to the Graduate Home Page (detailed below).
LexisNexis Rewards Point Expiration: Winter graduates have until January 31, 2019 to redeem their LexisNexis Rewards points.
Graduate Home Page: In February, the winter graduates’ view of the Law School Home Page will switch from the current view to the graduate view. This new view will provide helpful information for your career and job search. It will also award you a graduation gift of your choice of several LexisNexis products.
Aspire Program: Graduates conducting verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work may sign up for the Lexis ASPIRE Program for extended access to some items. Please contact our Lexis Account Representative, Jennifer Durkin, at jennifer.durkin@lexisnexis.com, if you have any questions.

Westlaw
You can use Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw and Practical Law, for 18-months after graduation! Your “Grad Elite” access gives you 60-hours of usage per month, with no restrictions against using them for professional purposes. These tools include:

  • Westlaw
  • Practical Law
  • Practical Law Connect
  • Drafting Assistant Essential
  • Doc and Form Builder
  • ProView
  • West LegalEdCenter -one-year, no CLE

Extend access by logging into http://www.lawschool.westlaw.com

If you have any questions, please contact the Account Manager, Samuel Berbano (samuel.berbano@thomsonreuters.com)

Bloomberg Law
Graduates automatically keep full access to Bloomberg Law through their individual account for six months following graduation. Please contact our Bloomberg Law School Relationship Manager, Terry Stedman, tstedman@bna.com, if you have any questions.

Other databases:
Free Fastcase App
For free databases on the Internet, see United States Federal Law – Free Sources and Ohio Law – Free Sources

Reading/Finals Week Changes to Circulation Fines & Periods

The circulation period and overdue fines for OASP and Sum and Substance materials will change for Reading Period and Finals. Starting on Friday, November 30, 2018 these materials will circulate for only 1 day (instead of 72 hours) and no renewals will be allowed. Overdue fines for these materials will increase from $1.00 per day to $5.00 per day.

These changes provide access to the materials for a greater number of students. If you have questions regarding these changes please ask the library staff.

Law Library Position for Law Students – apply today!

This reference associate position is open to any student that has completed LARW I and II by the end of Fall semester 2018.  Deadline is Monday, December 17, 2018.  The student should be available to start by the week of January 14, 2019, although the student could potentially work over Winter break if they are available.

The Law Library Reference Associate should be available for an average of  7.5-10 hours per week during Spring semester and must be available to work one weekday evening (specifically Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.  A permanent weekly schedule will be set up at the beginning of each semester.  Once the semester schedule is established, the Law Library Associate is responsible for the hours assigned to them.  The student may continue employment in the Summer and in subsequent semesters.

The Law Library Associate will be compensated $10/hour. The Law Library Associate is supervised by a dual-degreed librarian (JD, MLS) who will provide reference training.

Duties include providing informational, directional, reference and research assistance to Law Library patrons.  The Associate will also have circulation duties include answering the phone, answering directional questions, and checking out library materials.  The Law Library Associate will also assist the reference librarians with teaching functions, faculty research projects, creation and maintenance of online library guides, and other projects.

Those interested in applying should email a current resume, your GPA, and your LARW grades to Sue Altmeyer (saltmeyer@uakron.edu) by December 17, 2018 .