Westlaw
SUMMER POLICY – RETURNING STUDENTS
You can use Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw®, Practical Law, and the Practice Ready solutions, over the summer for non-commercial research. You can turn to these resources to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills, but you cannot use them in situations where you are billing a client. Examples of permissible uses for your academic password include the following:
- Summer coursework
- Research assistant assignments
- Law Review or Journal research
- Moot Court research
- Non-Profit work (either required for graduation or as part of a class)
- Clinical work
- Externship sponsored by the school
You do not have to do anything to gain access to these tools over the summer. If you have any questions, please contact your Thomson Reuters Academic Account Manager.
GRADUATE ACCESS TO WESTLAW
You can use Thomson Reuters products, including Westlaw and Practical Law, for 6-months after graduation. Your “Grad Elite” access gives you 60-hours of usage per month to gain understanding and build confidence in your research skills. While you cannot use it in situations where you are billing a client, Thomson Reuters encourages you to use these tools to build your knowledge of the law and prepare for your bar exam.
YOU MUST OPT IN TO GRAD ELITE Access:
1) Go to ; Log in; Use the drop-down menu by your name to go to Grad Elite Status
2) Or Click on this link:
Lexis
LexisNexis Summer Access
Once again, Lexis is providing full access to Lexis+® through students’ law school ID throughout the months of May, June, July and August. Continued access includes tools, search history and the same exclusive content and practical guidance they have relied on all year long. Whether clerking, interning or working at a firm, students can use their law school access (Employers may prefer summer associates use a firm provided ID for client work).
LexisNexis Graduate Access
In addition to summer access for 1Ls and 2Ls, graduating 3Ls have continued access to Lexis upon graduation to keep their skills up to date and use for job and interview preparation. The Graduate Program gives extended access to Lexis+ to spring graduates via their law school IDs through December 31, 2024. This ID also grants them access to the Graduate Home Page and gives them a graduation gift (detailed in the flyer). The transition from a regular law school ID to a graduate ID happens on July 10, 2024.
At the recent Fair Housing & Civil Rights Conference, we had the pleasure of meeting Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, who spoke on book banning in libraries.
Ready to go beyond the hype about AI to see what it can actually do (and what it can’t)? Come to Chris’s AI workshop. This workshop will focus on showing you how to leverage AI to help with legal research as well as identifying hallucinated responses.
The workshop will be in Room 329 on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16 and 17, at 11 AM and 2 PM.
Anyone who can’t make it can email christopher.collins@law.wne.edu to schedule a one-on-one session either in person or on Zoom. Register here or at bit.ly/49m1BHf.
Can’t make it? Schedule a one-on-one session at !
The Law Library offers access to many resources – online and in print – to help you succeed on the bar exam. Come learn about them!
Sign up at for:
In-person workshop in Law Library Rm. 329:
Tuesday, 5/14; 1:00 to 2:00 PM
Zoom workshop:
Friday, 3/17; 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Have any questions? Contact us at 413-782-1457, reference.request@wne.edu, , or drop by the Law Library.
For November's 2nd-week crafting project, we made autumn leaves. Everyone to write something they were thankful for on their leaves and post them by the Law Library entrance was entered into a raffle for a prize. The winner got a $20 gift card to the university bookstore. That winner was our own Veronica Brunette. Congratulations, Veronica!
Congratulations to
Emily Long
And thank you to everyone who participated!
Congratulations to
John Keeler
And thank you to everyone who dropped by during 1L orientation week!
is a docket research platform providing access to civil, probate, and family law records from state trial courts. Trellis allows researchers to find data, documents, and other forms of work product.
Use this source to find real examples of various types of motions and verdict amounts by jurisdiction. Users may search by issue, party, judge, or motion type. Court documents are available as PDFs with the ability to download, print, or share via email.
Users can also view state codes, statues, and regulations and set email alerts on cases, parties, judges, or topics to stay up to date on pending actions.
The Nourishment Nook is a multi-use area designed with the whole student in mind:
- Quiet Reflection
- Lactation
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Changing children
- Destressing
- Yoga
Starting this semester, law students can reserve a conference room online.
- Reservations are available to 2 or more law students only.
- Reservations can be made up to 1 week in advance.
- Reservations are for a maximum of 4 hours per group, per day.
- At the time of check-in, 2 students are required to pick up their group's Conference Room Key at the Circulation Desk.
- Failure to check in more than 15 minutes after the reserved start time will result in an automatic cancellation.
The Law Library has opened a satellite location of the Bear Necessities Market. The Market provides free supplies, such as food and personal hygiene items, to students with food insecurities.
The Market's main location is on the First Floor of the campus center, in front of the bookstore.
For questions about this program, please call the Office of Cultural Education and Inclusion at 413-796-2369 or 413-782-1594.
