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Outlining for Class Using Westlaw

Thursday, August 25th

You have registered for Westlaw. Now what? Join us for this 20 minute national webinar and learn how to use the tools on Westlaw to help you prep and outline for class. Learn how to find sources for guidance and how to save and organize those sources and key documents.

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Westlaw 101

Thursday, September 8th

An introduction to Westlaw and the building blocks of legal research. Learn how to create searches based on key terms and refine your search results, utilize Secondary Sources, leverage annotations in cases and statutes to expand your research and validate your cited authority using KeyCite.

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Thriving in a Closed Universe

Thursday, September 22nd

In this brief training we'll show you how to use Westlaw Edge to master your closed-universe legal research assignment! We'll show you how to use WestSearch Plus to answer legal research questions; use Headnotes to understand the law and; use Folders to keep everything organized.

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Mastering Your Open Memo

Thursday, October 6th

Feeling overwhelmed with your first open memo assignment? Join this quick 20 minute Westlaw webinar where we'll provide you tips and strategies on how to quickly find relevant cases and statutes for your assignment using KeyCite Flags, Key Number System and Citing References! Attendees will be eligible for prizes during this webinar.

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Legal Movies and TV Trivia

Thursday, October 20th

Compete with students across the country in this quick legal movies and TV trivia session.

Top 3 Things You Missed on Westlaw

Thursday, November 3rd

There's a lot to learn from Westlaw Edge about legal research. Be prepared for your next big legal research assignment and make sure you know all about organizing your research (Folders), being more efficient (Custom Pages) and writing better (Write.Law). We'll briefly discuss these topics to ensure that you'll ace your next legal research assignment!

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Demurrer

Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed.2014)

Demurrer: A means of objecting to the sufficiency in law of a pleading by admitting the actual allegations made by disputing that they frame an adequate claim. Demurrer is commonly known as a motion to dismiss.

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Restatement of Contracts 2d

Counter-offers

(1) A counter-offer is an offer made by an offeree to his offeror relating to the same matter as the original offer and proposing a substituted bargain differing from that proposed by the original offer.

(2) An offeree’s power of acceptance is terminated by his making a counter-off, unless the offeror has manifested a contrary intention or unless the counter-offer manifests a contrary intention of the offeree.

The answer and more can be found in the comments section of SS39 of the Restatement of Contracts 2d – Counter-offers

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What is common law and is it written by the courts of law?

Common Law
The origin of the Anglo-American legal systems. English common law was largely customary law and unwritten, until discovered, applied, and reported by the courts of law. In a narrow sense, common law is the phrase still used to distinguish case law from statutory law.

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WestLaw Law School Registration Key

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Negligence defined

Restatement (Second) of Torts § 282

In the Restatement of this Subject, negligence is conduct which falls below the standard established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. It does not include conduct recklessly disregardful of an interest of others.

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