Joining the movement to make online legal documents more accessible, Google has introduced a new tool that indexes and searches a vast array of federal, appellate and state court decisions by case title, keyword, topics and other criteria.The search giant announced this week that its Google Scholar tool — a search portal for scholarly literature — now includes a separate search function for legal opinion.

 CALI provides thousands of lessons on all areas of the law. These lessons are great for studying for finals.

This month Westlaw rolled out the State trademark court filing rules (TMRULES-XX) database outlining trademark statutes and applicable rules of practice. Individual state materials are found in databases with the identifier TMRULES-XX, where XX is a state's two-letter postal abbreviation. Databases were released for nine additional states (AZ, LA, MN, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, and WA).

Main Stacks : KF373 .H867 A3 2009

Justice at Guantanamo : One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights / by Kristine A. Huskey, with Aleigh Acerni

LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to Pierce Law's Library MELcat Library holdings. Many of us use it all day long as it avoids the need to go to the home page of the Library or MELCat. Give it a try. You may have to click Allow if Firefox asks permission to install it. Just say yes to LibX.

Main Stacks : KF283 .F87 2009

Law School Revealed : Secrets, Opportunities, and Success! / by Ursula Furi-Perry

 CCH IntelliConnect - New format for many PierceLaw IP and Tax databases!

In addition to timely legal news, research tips and information on the Library, this blog also occasionally includes fun and non-legal websites to make your Tuesday (or any day!) a little bit more fun. Today's entry comes from Serials Supervisor Sharon Warga describing a favorite website:

What is the Fact Based Research course about?

Fact Based Research is a course under the Law Practice Information Literacy umbrella and covers non-legal research skills that are critical to today’s legal practice. Students learn practice ready skills not covered in Legal Skills or other research courses and the course guides students in learning information literacy beyond Westlaw/Lexis.

Topics include:

Business research including newspaper research and corporation filings

Jury Verdict Reports

Medical Research