Library Access Policy for Bar Exam Study – Summer 2014

The following is the access policy for persons who wish to use our library as they prepare to sit for the July 2014 Bar Exam:

Touro Law Alumni

Graduates of Touro Law School are free to use our library to study as they prepare for the July 2014 Bar Exam. Please bring your student ID with you. Please visit our Library Hours page before you visit to be certain of our hours for bar study.

Non-Touro Law Graduates 

Non-Touro Law graduates who are taking the bar exam in 2014 and who are taking a bar review course at Touro may purchase a visitor’s pass for Bar Study Access to the Gould Law Library for $50.00. Visitor passes will be valid from May 19th through July 30th 2014.

Checks and credit cards will be accepted. Non-Touro Law bar review registrants can obtain the visitor’s pass to use the library, by showing a photo ID at the security desk where they will be directed to the Administration Office, Room 402, to purchase a pass.

Please bring proof of bar exam registration, enrollment in bar review course and photo ID. You will be asked to complete a short form.

The form is accessible here. (You can enter the information online, and then print out the completed form to bring to the office.)

If possible, please complete the form prior to coming to campus to purchase a pass.

Office hours for study pass purchase are Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. in the Administration Office.

The pass entitles the visitor to study in the Library areas other than the Computer Labs and the Study Rooms. Wireless Access is available. Library borrowing privileges are not included with the pass. Those using Bar Study Passes are subject to all Touro Law Center policies and passes may be revoked for any violation of policy. See the Library website for policies.

Library Hours are subject to change, so please check our website to be certain of hours. Visitors are given access during regular Library hours only. Extended study hall hours are for Touro Law Center Students only. Please see our Library Access Policy.

If you have any questions, please email libraryreference@tourolaw.edu or call 761-7160.

We’ll keep posting this month about things you need to know as you prepare for the Bar Exam this summer.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Legal Research Database Access for Graduating Students – May 2014

If you are graduating from Touro Law School in May 2014, first, we must say: Congratulations! We know you are off and away to great things.

Second, did you know that you have continuing access to all the legal research benefits of Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance and Westlaw Next for a period of time after you graduate? You actually do. Below are the rules and guidelines for 2014 post-graduate access to legal research databases:

Westlaw

Graduating students can extend their Westlaw passwords for use after graduation through November 2014. To extend your password, use this link: Extend my Westlaw Password and follow the prompts under “Graduating” (which are located to the right of the page).  Fill out the brief survey to extend your password.

A note about Westlaw points: Filling out the survey to extend your password will earn you 200 Westlaw points. However, you should use your Westlaw points right after you graduate, as your points expire 30 days after graduation and do not last until November.

Lexis

Graduating students can extend their Lexis access until December 31, 2014. To do so, click this link: Extend my Lexis Password or click the “Grad Access” on your Lexis homepage. Enter your Lexis ID and follow the process to extend your password.

Bloomberg Law

Graduating students have full access to their Bloomberg Law accounts for six months after their graduation date. Your access is preserved automatically – no additional action is required.

We’ll keep posting this month about things you need to know before you graduate this summer.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Resources for Summer Success for Continuing Students

Whether you’re off to your first summer after your 1L year or your last summer before you graduate, we know you’re off to succeed and take the steps that will help you land the best employment position for you to begin your career. Below are just a few of the books that we have in our collection that will help you make the best of your experience, wherever it may be:

Law School Lowdown : Secrets Of Success From The Application Process To Landing The First Job by Ian E. Scott (2013)

This book has a chapter solely dedicated to how to succeed at your first summer position and use your contacts made during your student work to land a position after graduation.

Law School Confidential : A Complete Guide To The Law School Experience : By Students, For Students by Robert H. Miller (2011)

With a chapter entitled, “Working for Free or Working for Pay, Your First Summer Paves the Way,” and another entitled, “Keys to Ascension: Turning 2L Summer Employment Into A Permanent Offer,” this book provides guidance on how to use your summer position to attain professional success.

Maximize Your Lawyer Potential : Professionalism and Business Etiquette For Law Students And Lawyers by Amee R. McKim (2009)

This book contains a chapter entitled, “On The Clock: Your First Summer Internship Or Summer Associate Position,” containing tips on how to act professionally and mind your business etiquette during your summer employment.

If you’re ever perplexed or need guidance about how to tackle an assignment, visit us in the Reference Office! We’re here all summer during regular hours to continue to provide you with the legal research assistance we give during the academic year.  You can also e-mail us, call us at 631-761-7160, or chat with us, using the chat function to the right of this post!

We’ll keep posting this month about things you need to know before you go this summer. Our next few posts will address things our graduating students need to know before they go.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Legal Research Database Summer Access Guidelines for Continuing Students

We hope all of our continuing students are persevering and succeeding as you sit for your finals. Good luck! This month, we’ll be posting about things you need to know before you head off to a summer of success.

For our continuing students, before you go, it’s important to know this year’s rules and guidelines for using your research database passwords during the summer:

Bloomberg Law:

Students may use their Bloomberg Law accounts as normal throughout the summer. There are no restrictions based on the nature of your summer placement (private firm, government, study abroad, etc.) and no special steps to enable summer access. Please remember that, while you are able to use your Bloomberg Law account, your employer may prefer that you use their organization’s account for billing purposes.

Lexis Advance:

Students may use their Lexis Advance accounts as normal throughout the summer. There are no restrictions based on the nature of your summer placement (private firm, government, study abroad, etc.) and no special steps to enable summer access. Please remember that, while you are able to use your Lexis Advance account, your employer may prefer that you use their organization’s account for billing purposes.

Westlaw:

In order to use your Westlaw account over the summer, you must request permission from West to “extend” your password. Additionally, you may only use your Westlaw account for “Academic Purposes.” This includes, but is not limited to, summer law school classes, Law Review/Journal/Moot Court, projects for professors, and some not for profit/pro bono internships. “Academic Purposes” does not include research conducted for a law firm, corporation or other entity (unrelated to law school) that is paying you to conduct said research or that is passing along the costs of said research to a third party. These are deemed commercial purposes. For detailed information, and to request a password extension, please go to: http://lawschool.westlaw.com/registration/summerextension.aspx

We’ll keep posting this month about things you need to know before you go this summer.

In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Special Hours for Passover Break, Reading Period and Finals

Here are the Gould Law Library Hours during the Passover break and Finals. 
Please note that these hours are for Touro Law Center Students only:

** Beginning Friday, April 4th, 2014, on Fridays, the Library will remain open as a study hall  until 6:30 p.m. for Touro Law Center Students only. These extended closing hours for the study hall period will remain in effect for Fridays until the end of Finals.

** During the Reading Period (April 17th to May 16th), Touro Law Center Students will have 24 hour access to the Library. The exceptions to the 24 hour access are:

1) Friday evenings - Saturday mornings, when the Library will close on Fridays at 6:30 p.m. and will reopen on Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.; and 

2) April 20 after 6:30 p.m. through April 22, when the library is closed for Passover (see below).

Students using the library during this time must sign in and out at security.

** Here are the Passover Break holiday hours (April 14th to April 22nd):

To always be up to date on our hours, please bookmark this link: Gould Law Library Hours. Be sure to check our website and Facebook/Twitter posts for the most up-to-date information on our hours and availability!

We wish all of you that celebrate a happy and healthy Passover and Easter season.  Good luck on your finals!

HeinOnline - Now with Fastcase!

There's been a new addition to the HeinOnline database that we want our users to know about: HeinOnline is newly partnered with Fastcase. In integrating the two platforms, users can research both law reviews and case law at the same time, using hyperlinks to navigate between the two.

For those of you who do not know, HeinOnline is an excellent resource that can be really helpful to use in any legal research project. Among its many databases, it has an extensive law review and legal journal database that provides the articles to you in PDFs, so you can view them as they were originally published in print. It also has a comprehensive database in which you can conduct historical New York legal research, both from a statutory and a case law perspective.

You can check out HeinOnline and its new partnership with Fastcase here. (Scroll down to HeinOnline and click on the link; the databases are in alphabetical order.) If you are off-campus, please sign into TLC web first before accessing our databases.

We’ll post again soon. In the meantime, keep calm and read on.

Feb. 12th - Rescheduled Lexis Advance Training for 1Ls

Lexis Advance is offering training to our 1Ls. The training will review research techniques for students who are writing their briefs. The trainings all take place in the Library Computer Lab on the 3rd floor.

Due to the recent snowstorms and school closings, the trainings have been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 12th at the following times:

• 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
• 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
• 2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
• 5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Students should go to https://signin.lexisnexis.com/lnaccess/app/signin?aci=la and sign into Lexis Advance in order to register for one of these trainings.