ACLL News & Events
November 24, 2021
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Special holiday hours
November 24, 25, 26
DIVING DEEPER INTO LEGAL RESEARCH: Advanced Online Legal Research Concepts |
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Tuesday, December 7th 12 - 1
Virtual MCLE 1 hour participatory credit
No cost
• Discover how online legal research can assist you in search methodology
• Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content.
• Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes.
• Learn how online legal research platforms provide organization methods, delivery methods, and recovery methods so you can better maintain your research.
• Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher.
• Realize alternative and advanced ways to begin research with statutes.
• Acquire archived materials in multiple ways.
• Find connections between results of separate searches
Program flyer available - HERE
Advance registration required. Register on EVENTBRITE by noon the day before the program to receive a link.
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ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH ON WESTLAW |
Wednesday, December 15th 12 - 1
Virtual MCLE 1 hour participatory credit
No cost
This course will help you refine your search construction using both plain language and terms & connectors, while also showing you tools and resources to help you efficiently complete your research assignment.
Speaker: Jonathan Dorsey, Esq., Customer Trainer, Government, Thomson Reuters
Jonathan Dorsey received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. At Hastings, he wrote for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, and externed at the California Court of Appeal. His practice experience includes civil litigation as well as in-house work. He has been with Thomson Reuters for 8 years.
Program flyer available HERE
Advance registration required. Register on EVENTBRITE by noon the day before the program to receive a link.
 
CA Jury Verdicts and Settlements
A unique resource, California Jury Verdicts and Settlements, is available on Lexis using ACLL’s public access research computers.
This file can be searched for terms found any place within a document as well as by terms limited to a specific document segment/field including case name, amount of award, and attorney name.
Below is an illustration of how the information in the individual document is organized to facilitate segment searching -
 ACLL's Reference Desk staff can assist you in accessing this resource at the library.
- Masks required for entry
- Conference room services not currently available
Questions?? Contact the Reference Desk by email or phone 510.208.4832
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