Moritz Legal Information Blog

Did you know that the Moritz Law Library offers many, many databases beyond Lexis and Westlaw? An ever-growing collection of ebooks? Many resources in print that aren’t available online? A legal fiction and popular DVD collection? Reference librarians available by live chat and in the summer for research guidance on your challenging work assignments? On Thursday, November 9th at 12:10 in the Moritz Law Library Reserve Room, Moritz students will share how library resources and reference librarians have been helpful when doing research for course assignments, extracurricular activities, job interviews, and more. Moritz librarians will be there to offer additional information about useful resources with which students may not be familiar. The Pro Bono Research Group and the Moritz Law Library are co-sponsoring this event. Food will be provided.

Odds are, you have spent hundreds of hours on legal writing during law school. With LAW I, LAW II, App Ad, Transactional Practice, Advanced Legal Writing, numerous seminars, writing for journals, and employment, you’ve possibly spent more time writing than reading. Even if you are only a 1L, your LAW I closed memos or judicial opinions have been completed, and writing probably took so much longer than you ever thought it would when you first sat down in class. If the thrill of learning or the hope of earning an A aren’t enough motivation or reward for all that time spent writing, consider putting your writing experience to work by submitting something to a law student writing competition. Suffolk University Law School and the Moakley Law Library have created iCompete Writing: A Compilation of Legal Writing Competitions , which arranges competitions by date and topic, giving you a chance to win glory and cash prizes up to $25,000. You can write on a wide range of subject areas—41 to b