TTU Law Library is committed to providing resources to support our summer associates and graduates as you take the next step in your legal career.
Westlaw
Continuing students will automatically have access to Westlaw over the summer for unpaid, non-commercial research, and no special registration is required. Permissible uses include:
- Summer coursework
- Research assistant assignments
- Law Review or Journal research
- Moot Court research
- Non-Profit work
- Clinical work
- Internship/Externship sponsored by the school
If continuing students are working for a firm or a for-profit organization, you should use the Westlaw account provided by your employer.
Graduating students can register for Westlaw’s Westlaw Grad Elite program. Your “Grad Elite” access gives you 60-hours of usage per month, with no restrictions against using them for professional purposes. Your post-graduation access will conclude at the end of the 18th month after your graduation date.
These tools include:
- Westlaw Precision
- Practical Law
- Practical Law Connect
- Drafting Assistant Essential
- Doc and Form Builder
- ProView
- West LegalEdCenter -one-year, no CLE
- Knowledge Center eLearnings and Tutorials
YOU MUST OPT IN TO GRAD ELITE Access (and can do so in one of two ways):
1) Go to www.lawschool.tr.com, and, after logging on, use the drop-down menu by your name to go to Grad Elite Status
2) Or Click on this link: https://lawschool.thomsonreuters.com/grad-elite-status/
Lexis +
Continuing students will have unlimited Lexis +access this summer for any purpose at school or at work, including any paid or unpaid legal work, though employers may prefer summer associates use a firm-provided ID for client work.
Graduating 3Ls will automatically have continued access to Lexis upon graduation. The Graduate Program gives extended access to Lexis+ to spring graduates via our law school IDs through December 31, 2023.
The ASPIRE program provides 12 months of free access to federal and state cases, codes, regulations, law reviews, Shepard’s® Citation Service and Matthew Bender® treatises to graduates who are engaged in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work. Graduates who apply to this program must work directly for a non-profit or charitable organization, and be able to provide documentation (e.g. email) from a superior of the same.
Bloomberg Law
Continuing students will have full access to Bloomberg Law over the summer. May 2023 graduating law students will have 6 months post-graduation unlimited and unrestricted access to Bloomberg Law.
If you have access issues to those databases, please contact the Electronic & Digital Services Librarian, Dajiang Nie, at dajiang.nie@ttu.edu.
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