At the beginning of the semester there is lots of activity in the library—especially for students who are writing a paper for a class, seminar, competition, or journals / Law Review. Don’t fret—the law library has you covered: we offer …
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Do you ever find that trying to format legal documents in Microsoft Word is a bit like herding cats? Fix one formatting issue and it causes another to appear, and so on. Here’s a quick tip about formatting automatic paragraph …
Students, do you have a bit of time before or during the upcoming Thanksgiving break? Why not refresh your research skills and take a few Law Library Legal Research Seminars?! The Seminars are conveniently available online, via the Westlaw TWEN platform. You …
Faculty and students at Cleveland-Marshall have access to Gale’s U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs database. This database contains briefs and related documents from Supreme Court cases between 1832 and 1978. Previously, many of these briefs were not available through …
Don’t forget to use headnotes to enhance your research. Headnotes are summaries of specific points of law that are covered in a case. They appear before the text of the opinion and can lead a researcher to additional cases that …
