Bloomberg Law Training

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 to New York Law School students.  We are offering a mix of Introductory as well as Advanced sessions that will help prepare either summer associates or outgoing graduates for a variety of opportunities. Each session runs approximately 40-50 minutes.

To sign up please email oribe@bloomberg.net with the sessions & times.

Introductory Sessions:  Learn the basic navigation and data coverage of Bloomberg Law which is used by AmLaw firms for current case law, legal commentary, news, and business intelligence.

Advanced Sessions:

~ Corporate and Securities Transactions:  Legal and Business research at an advanced level for students heading to financial institutions and the law firms that support them.

~ Legal Research:  Advanced training for litigators:  Bloomberg Law has

every published state and federal case & commentary to teach you everything from Banking Law to White Collar Crime.

~ Due Diligence: Learn how to perform the due diligence research necessary for transactional and bankruptcy work in corporate law firms.

~ Dodd-Frank Demystified: Learn how to research Dodd-Frank, the biggest statutory and regulatory overhaul of the securities industry since Sarbanes-Oxley.

~ Bloomberg for Summers: Get a head start with the newest legal research tool and let us help prepare you with free access for the entire summer.

March 2011

INTRO TO BLOOMBERG LAW:
March 7th:  1pm, 5pm
March 15th: 1pm, 4pm
March 24th: 1pm, 5pm, 6pm

ADVANCED BLOOMBERG LAW: CORPORATE & SECURITIES LAW
March 8th: 12pm, 5pm
March 16th: 1pm, 6pm

ADVANCED BLOOMBERG LAW: LITIGATION
March 17th: 5pm, 6pm

ADVANCED BLOOMBERG LAW: PERFORMING DUE DILIGENCE WITH BLOOMBERG LAW
March 9th: 1pm, 5pm
March 15th: 5pm, 6pm

DODD-FRANK DEMYSTIFIED
March 14th: 5pm 6pm

April 2011
INTRO TO BLOOMBERG LAW:
April 5th: 12pm, 5pm

USING BLOOMBERG LAW FOR THE SUMMER: CORPORATE & SECURITIES LAW
April 6th: 1pm, 5pm
April 12th: 1pm, 5pm

 

USING BLOOMBERG LAW FOR THE SUMMER: LITIGATION & DOCKETS!
April 5th: 1pm, 6pm
April 13th: 1pm, 6pm

 

USING BLOOMBERG LAW FOR THE SUMMER:  PERFORMING DUE DILIGENCE WITH BLOOMBERG LAW
April 6th: 12pm, 6pm
April 14th: 12pm, 5pm

Have You Tried Loislaw Yet?

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), and a variety of productivity features and services. 

Once students register for Loislaw, they have access throughout their law school program.  Service continues through summers and there is no restriction on use.  Best of all, it’s available free to law students for 6 months following graduation.  If you’d like help with Loislaw, stop by the Reference Desk or contact The Loislaw Support Group at 1-800-364-2512.

To sign up for Loislaw you need to get New York Law School’s code for registration.  Once you have the code follow the instructions for registration found here.  Look for the New to Loislawschool.com link.

New Look for Lexis

Lexis has just introduced a brand new interface. The change in look is not dramatic and after a few uses, you should feel right at home. The new design lets users experience the enhanced features at their own pace.  To oversimplify, the gray background has become white and the top tool bar has moved over to the right side. The “Related Content” section in the left frame of the search results screen has case background information, related secondary source links, and tools to allow one to move easily around and within documents.  Lexis has also introduced Lexis for Microsoft Office, a productivity tool that automates certain Lexis research tasks and frees users from having to leave a Word document or Outlook message to sign onto Lexis.  It is now available on all Mendik Library computers and you can download it to your laptop or home computer (including Macs).

Spilled Coffee Imperils Airliner . . . and your Library!

For those Library patrons who tend to minimize the impact of spilled coffee, read about the nightmare that ensued on a recent United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany.  The Wall Street Journal report is here.

If you’d rather watch than read, check out the referenced movie, Fate is the Hunter.  Follow Glen Ford as he discovers the cause of the fatal plane crash he is investigating – a spilled cup of cockpit coffee (which short-circuited the plane’s instruments).  Here’s the less than stellar New York Times movie review (from December 10, 1964).

Moral:  Use spill-proof mugs!

 

A Day in the Life of a 1L

On a Wednesday in April 2008, during the second semester of his first year of law school, Jesse Nix decided to capture “a normal” day of his life as a student at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.  “I set my computer to take a picture every 30 seconds . . . .”

Nix chose Wednesday because it was his busiest day of the week.  He began filming on his car ride to campus at 7:45 a.m. and stopped filming at 3:00 p.m.  “I didn’t want to film me studying for hours and hours, so I decided to stop it on my way back home.”

Nix’s resulting “video representation” is now the popular YouTube video “A Day in the Life of a Law Student.”

Enjoy!

 

Library Closed Monday, December 27

Due to weather conditions, the Library will be closed on Monday, December 27, 2010.  For study purposes, NYLS students can use the 5th floor student areas of the 185 W. Broadway building, the Broad Student Center, and the Stiefel Reading Room.  The Library will reopen on Tuesday,  December 28 at 9:00 a.m.