Category: Law Library

You are not permitted to use your law school Lexis or Westlaw accounts for non-educational use.  To do so is a violation of the Honor Code. The EXCEPTIONS to this are – Lexis usually announces that during the summer, you may use your school account for work.  More info Westlaw usually allows summer use so long as you are not billing a client. More Info Look for announcements on this blog concerning summer access.

You can use Bloomberg Law for employment purposes. as well as most of the other databases the library makes available – https://www.uakron.edu/law/about-us/law-library-database.dot.

Please let the library staff know if you have any more questions about this.

Legal research certification look great on your resume.

Bloomberg Law certification courses are available here.   Students will need to register for a certification account and will then be able to sign in to view the courses, take the exams, and obtain their certificates. 

In addition to the interactive certification program, Bloomberg’s webinar program continues this semester with twice weekly live webinars.  Please find the schedule here.  The webinars are recorded, and these recordings are available on the same page.

If you are thinking of doing an extremely large project involving Bloomberg Law Dockets you may want to contact the Law Library first. There are now limits to state and federal docket charges students and faculty may incur. The maximum per year is $1,500, which, at ten cents a page translates to 15,000 pages from federal dockets. It is unlikely that you will need such a large number of pages, but we thought we would let you know just in case. You can view Bloomberg Law’s Policy on Dockets Charges by Academic Users here.

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

LexisNexis

• Overview: The Graduate Program provides recent law school graduates extended access to Lexis+; a customized version of the Law School Home Page with graduate specific content; and a choice of a graduation gift from LexisNexis.
• Extended Access to Lexis+:  Winter graduates have access to Lexis+ via their law school IDs through June 30, 2021. This ID also grants them access to the Graduate Home Page.
• Graduate Home Page: By February 1, 2021, the winter graduates’ view of the Law School Home Page will switch to the graduate view. This new view provides helpful information for their careers and job search.
• Graduate Gift:  Graduates can select a “Graduate Gift” from the new graduate view of the Law School Home Page. This year’s gifts are LexisNexis eBooks and online subscriptions for Practical Guidance, Intelligize, Lexis for Microsoft Office, and Law360.
• LexisNexis Rewards Expiration: like previous years, winter graduates have until January 31, 2021 to redeem their LexisNexis Rewards points.
• 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. Commercial/Professional use is allowed and encouraged.  The tools include:

• Westlaw
• Practical Law
• Knowledge Center
• 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 and registering for Graduate Elite.

Click on your name in the upper right, and select Grad Elite Status

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 iPhone or Android – check Google Play or the Apple App Store.
• For free databases on the Internet, see United States Federal Law – Free Sources and Ohio Law – Free Sources

The Akron Law Library seeks a Research Assistant to begin work remotely this spring and potentially continue into summer and beyond.

The Research Assistant would help the librarians with faculty research, Libguides and grading LARW projects.  The ideal candidate will have completed and earned at least a B in LARW I and II. Past research experience is a plus.

Work will be done remotely. If you are interested, please send your resume including your LARW grades to Associate Law Librarian Sue Altmeyer: saltmeyer@uakron.edu as soon as possible.