Introduction to Online Legal Research  (Westlaw and Lexis)
Professor Callister


Session: Fall - Spring
How to search efficiently and restrict your search to specific segments and fields.How and when to use Natural Language searching instead of Terms and Connectors.How to find similar documents using Lexis More Like This searching.How to find similar cases using Westlaw's Key Numbers.How to conduct citation analysis including Lexis' Shepard's and Westlaw's KeyCite.
Special considerations when working with Secondary Sources.Setting up Clip and Alert Services.How to keep track of where you have been.Practice problems for Spring Session.line
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Suppose that you are writing a treatise on tax law, and that you wanted to be notified of any case that discusses the application of the "innocent spouse" doctrine.  You find that a Terms and Connectors search in West's Federal Taxation - Cases (FTX-CS) works well. 

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