Author: Dajiang Nie

The Law Library is proud to announce that the Lex Machina is now available to prepare students for practice. Lex Machina is a flagship litigation analytic platform that helps attorneys to find past behavior of parties, counsel, experts, judges, and courts to improve litigation and business outcomes.

Access Lex Machina

TTU Law users can log into Lex Machina with your Lexis+ credential.

Unique Outcome Analytics

Lex Machina uses AI-assisted attorney review to provide damages, findings, resolutions, and remedies for millions of civil cases in US federal and state courts. The case-outcome analytics tell you who won, how much, by what procedural means, under what conclusions of law, how long it took, & whether the decision withstood appeal for each dispute.

Dynamic Data

Case data are updated automatically overnight to reflect the latest developments. This ensures that you can see if a particular resolution or damage award has withstood appeal, for example.

Structured Entities

Lex Machina extracts raw counsel data from dockets & court filings, then structures it to generate detailed analytics on law firms and individual attorneys. It refers to corporate hierarchy information to suggest related entities like parents, subsidiaries, franchises, and other affiliates within your party search results.

Instant Comparisons

The unique Quick Tools make it easy to instantly compare judges, parties, or law firms, create winning motions, explore patent portfolios or expert witnesses, and more.

Transparent Sources & Methods

Lex Machina allows you to show the work and drill down from high-level trends to the underlying dockets and documents. Lex Machina provides you with clear definitions of our case types, tags, findings, damages, and more, so you are never left guessing.

If you have any questions, please contact the Electronic & Digital Services Librarian, Dajiang Nie, at Dajiang.nie@ttu.edu.

The Law Library is proud to announce the availability of a new eBook platform, Lexis Digital Library, to facilitate student learning. Lexis Digital Library is a premium eBook platform that hosts study aids, casebooks, and leading legal treatises.

eBook Content

Study Aids

The LexisNexis Digital Library includes a large selection of digital study aids from the following series:

• Understanding Series
• Questions & Answers Series
• Mastering Series
• Skills & Values Series
• Audio Study Guides
• Carolina Academic Press

Practice Manuals & Treatises

In addition to study aids, this library contains a large selection of legal treatises, practice guides, and monographs on many different areas of law, such Nimmer on Copyrights and Dorsaneo Texas Litigation Guide, etc.

Casebooks

The LexisNexis Digital Library also offers electronic casebooks for certain courses. As part of the Law Library’s casebook project, in addition to borrowing casebooks for each course from the Law Library Circulation Desk, students can also access Carolina Academic Press casebooks through the Lexis Digital Library.

Access Lexis Digital Library

To access Lexis Digital Library, you can find it in the Law Library Electronic Resources and log in with your TTU email.

Lexis Digital Library Application

Consider downloading the Digital Library App for easier reading, online or offline. You can download the Digital Library app for your apple or android device, enter your library code (ttulaw), then follow the prompts to sign in.

Features of Lexis Digital Library

• Print the current section of the book
• Highlight text and add notes
• Utilize the Annotations icon to view notes and highlights
• Export Annotations
• Search within the book
• Copy book text with citations
• Navigate via the Table of Contents

Here is an introduction video for Lexis Digital Library.

If you have any questions, please contact the Electronic & Digital Services Librarian, Dajiang Nie, at Dajiang.nie@ttu.edu.

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 to 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, 2024.

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 2024 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.