Researching Help Forum

[foundingfather]

Are there any good guides online for getting better at researching using Westlaw or Lexis?

[BVest]

Go to their trainings on campus. Follow them on FB to get alerts about research videos. Or just seek out their research videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/LexisNexis ... ols/videos).

[rinkrat19]

Could also throw yourself upon the mercy of the legal librarians. At NU, at least, they are super nice people.

[foundingfather]

Go to their trainings on campus. Follow them on FB to get alerts about research videos. Or just seek out their research videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/LexisNexis ... ols/videos).

some of these are mandatory at my school and I never really get anything out of them but...

Could also throw yourself upon the mercy of the legal librarians. At NU, at least, they are super nice people.

I may actually go to the librarians at school! totally forgot about that

[splitsplat]

Are there any good guides online for getting better at researching using Westlaw or Lexis?

assuming you are have student access, lexis and westlaw both have hotlines you can call where they will walk you through exactly how to search for a specific thing

[foundingfather]

did not know this, thanks! going to the librarians at school today, if that doesn't work i'll call westlaw

[foundingfather]

i would highly suggest asking your school librarians for help, and in turn checking out hard copies of materials