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You may have received an email from the LexisNexis student rep. Kim McKenzie about this certification test. Offered by LexisNexis the LexisLibrary database provider, it can be used to demonstrate to potential employers that you have reached a level of competence in using LexisLibrary’s online research services.
You’re given an hour to complete the test, it consists of 15 questions and the pass mark is 13/15.
Click the link below to find out more and register to take the test – the College of Law subscribes to all the resources that you will need to complete it.
Register for the LexisNexis Online Research Certification test
Dear students: This is just a quick reminder that the LexisNexis Student Associate scheme is still up and running in 2009. Now that all the mocks and real exams are out of the way (for the time being!) you may want to brush up on your legal research skills in order to improve for whatever examination you have to take next. So, if you have any queries about the use of LexisNexis Butterworth’s please send an email to lexisnexislawcollbham@live.co.uk and you will be sent some advice asap! Also note that another competition will be set up over the coming weeks, so that you can get your hands on some more LexisNexis merchandise. All details will be posted on the Library blog and sent to your College email accounts.
WIN PRIZES BY HELPING LEXISNEXIS BUTTERWORTH’S TO HELP YOU…
What do you hate most about legal research? Is it that you can never find that case? Or is it that it takes forever to search through your 500 search results?
Well, you can help solve your own problems …
The LexisNexis Student Associate scheme is asking College of Law Birmingham students to submit their most hated legal research tasks to lexisnexislawcollbham@live.co.uk throughout November.
All entrants will receive some LexisNexis Butterworth’s merchandise – ranging from notebooks and pens to post-it note tabs and squeezy cow stress balls!
Once the submissions have been collated … all your queries will be answered, either through personal advice via email or monthly tips placed on the plasma screens around College.
Also note all of your queries will be sent to LexisNexis HQ – so all of your stresses will be heard at the highest level!
LexisNexis and Westlaw staff will be running legal database workshops at College in October. The workshops may benefit GDL students who are new to legal databases, and LPC or BVC students who would like some refresher training in advance of their legal research assessments.
Rutendo Hanyanisi will be running the following LexisNexis Butterworths workshops on Friday 17 October: 11.00am-12.00pm, 12.00pm-1.00pm, 1.30pm-2.30pm and 2.30pm-3.30pm.
Sheena Shepherd will be running the following Westlaw workshops on Monday 20 October: 11.00am-12.00pm, 12.00pm-1.00pm, 1.30pm-2.30pm and 2.30pm-3.30pm.
The workshops are voluntary, but places are limited to 20 students per session. If you would like to attend a workshop, please contact the library to sign up. You can contact the library in person, or by telephone (01483 216041) or email (library.brm@lawcol.co.uk).
Please note that only students who sign up can attend the workshop. Also, students who sign up, are expected to attend workshops, or give notice of cancellation, so that their place may be offered to another.
If you are unable to attend the workshops, but would like further legal database training, we recommend that you try LexisNexis Butterworths and Westlaw online training tutorials.
Sarah Cooper is the new LexisNexis Butterworth’s Student Associate at the College of Law, Birmingham. All students are welcome to email Sarah with any queries they have regarding research on any of the LexisNexis databases. Her email address is sarah.cooper55@lawcol.co.uk. If possible she will deal with your queries via email, if not, she will do her best to arrange a 1:1 session with you in order to solve your legal research problems! Sarah’s service will be available throughout the academic year and she will also be organising some LexisNexis sponsored competitions, so that everyone can have a go at getting their hands on some great LexisNexis prizes! Keep watching the Library Blog and plasma screens around the College for further details.
The Library will be running a series of legal research workshops in early September. The workshops are designed to support LPC students with their Practical Legal Research, but they are open to all students who wish to attend.
The first workshop is an introduction to printed legal research using Halsbury’s Laws, Halsbury’s Statutes, Current Law and the Digest. The second workshop is an introduction to electronic legal research using LexisNexis Butterworths and Westlaw databases.
Printed legal research workshops:
- 11.00am-12.00pm Monday 8 September
- 2.00pm-3.00pm Monday 8 September
- 11.00am-12.00pm Tuesday 9 September
- 2.00pm-3.00pm Tuesday 9 September
- 5.00pm-6.00pm Wednesday 17 September
- 11.00am-12.00pm Thursday 18 September
- 4.45pm-5.45pm Thursday 18 September
Electronic legal research workshops:
The workshops are voluntary, but places are limited to 20 students per session. If you would like to attend a workshop, please contact the library to sign up. You can contact the library in person, or by telephone (01483 216041) or email (library.brm@lawcol.co.uk).
Please note that only students who sign up can attend the workshop. Also, students who sign up, are expected to attend workshops, or give notice of cancellation, so that their place may be offered to another.
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