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How To Do a Preemption Check
What’s a preemption check? A preemption check is a careful background check of your topic to see if anyone else has used your thesis or argument in a paper before. You don’t want to go to all the trouble of writing your paper only to find out that others have already covered it! Of course […]More
Research Consultations with Law Librarians
BYU Law Students: Are you doing your substantial writing requirement this semester? Or are you writing an academic paper for a class this semester? Or do you just want to write a new academic paper for fun to try to submit for publication? If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider having a […]More
Fastcase and Casemaker Merge; ROSS Intelligence Closes Its Doors
Big changes in the legal research industry are underway. Last week two of the largest legal research alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw, Fastcase and Casemaker, announced their merger. This news comes on the heels of ROSS Intelligence announcing it would shut down its legal research product this month amidst a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against […]More
