The Library is happy to announce the addition of Fastcase to the long list of electronic resources we offer the NYLS community. Comparable in many ways to Lexis and Westlaw, Fastcase is a legal research service providing full-text searchable access to comprehensive libraries of federal and state cases, statutes, constitutions, court rules, administrative regulations, and […]

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is now accessible through HeinOnline with the added benefit of direct linking to many articles.  Give it a try! The IFLP indexes nearly 300,000 articles and book reviews across more than 500 periodicals.  Links to the full text of more than 34,000 items are available.  The IFLP covers […]

If you are taking any tax classes or are interested in tax law,  you may want to sign up to learn about the BNA Tax and Accounting Center.  BNA offers the very popular Tax Management Portfolios with in depth discussion and references to tax primary sources.  Portfolios are available on a variety of topics ranging […]

Are you interested in tax law?  Don’t pass up the opportunity to learn how to use one of the premier electronic tax research systems:  CCH Intelliconnect.  This system gives you access to all primary sources for tax law, plus detailed explanations.  The system is organized by Internal Revenue Code section but allows you to do […]

Bloomberg Law is offering a series of trainings on how to use Bloomberg Law to search for various content types.  If you are a 1L, these trainings satisfy the Research Skills Workshops component of your Legal Practice Course requirement. The current schedule of training classes is as follows: Finding and Researching Administrative Regulations on Bloomberg […]

BNA, a leading legal publisher used extensively by practicing attorneys, can be a valuable component in your legal research toolbox.  Don’t miss these opportunities to learn how to use it effectively. No preregistration is required for any of the 45-minute sessions. Legal Research Using BNA Students will learn how to conduct legal research using BNA […]

Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII), in partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), now offers free electronic versions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence.  These electronic files become ebooks when viewed on a Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, or any other device that supports .epub or .mobi […]

Bloomberg Law is offering additional introductory training sessions to New York Law School students on July 6, 13, and 20. These 45-minute sessions will introduce BLAW’s newly released legal and financial services research platform, which integrates primary legal research and Bloomberg’s news, company information and analytics into one reliable resource. Features that will be covered […]

Representatives from Bloomberg are now offering a variety of introductory, advanced, and specialized training sessions for “Bloomberg Law,” an online legal search tool now available to law firms and law schools.  Details of the training, including the schedule for March and April, are set out below: Bloomberg Law is pleased to present ongoing training sessions […]

Loislaw is a comprehensive, user-friendly, low-cost electronic legal research service.  It offers access to a wide range of primary and secondary materials for federal as well as all fifty state jurisdictions.  Secondary sources and bar association materials are somewhat limited in the law school edition.  Loislaw also offers an electronic clip service, a citator (GlobalCite), […]