Legal Writing

WestlawNext User Guides, Monthly Email Newsletter and WestSearch for Dummies Brochure
A sampling of WestlawNext user guides now available here include: Getting Started on WestlawNext Checking Citations in KeyCite Retrieving Cases on WestlawNext Retrieving Statutes on WestlawNext Your WestlawNext Registration Key Using Folders to Organize Your Research Comparing Westlaw and WestlawNext...

User-generated content Guides

New IP guides for businesses trading abroad
The UK Trade & Investment and the UK Intellectual Property Office are publishing a series of five guides aimed at British companies who are trading in major markets around the world...

Are Grammar Snobs Great Big Meanies - Guide to Style Guides
An article by Jill Koch Hayford, an associate professor of legal writing at Marquette University Law School, in the Nov. 2008 Wisconsin Lawyer Magazine, provides a useful overview of writing style guides...

Search Engine for Legal Research Guides
Cornell Law Library has a new search engine which can locate online legal research guides by subject. Legal Research Engine searches for guides in approximately 20 different authoritative websites, many of them law library sites...

FTC Revises Guides Governing Endorsements and Testimonials
The Federal Trade Commission has issued revisions to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials, which will take effect on December 1, 2009 under16 C.F.R. Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising: Notice Announcing Adoption of Revised Guides

Probation User Fees
Clark County Council pays $1.1 million settlement after misappropriating funds.