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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Re-classification of Westlaw Key Numbers

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | May 14, 2008 - 18:06

Westlaw reclassified over 500,000 headnotes, particularly in the Criminal Law topic. Some of the changes are apparent if you log on to Westlaw,
click on "Key Numbers" at the top, and open up the Criminal Law topic. You will see that the "Sentencing Guidelines" section has been moved to the "Sentencing and Punishment" topic, etc. Minor changes have been made to the following topics: Automobiles, Innkeepers, Insurance and Negligence.

If you are searching online, you can still search using the old key number. The old key numbers are listed next to the new key numbers in the case headnotes. The print Digests will eventually incorporate the new changes, either by pocket part or by a replacement volume.

There is also a correlation table in the print version of the West's Digest (for example, West's Ohio Digest), that will tell you which new digest number corresponds to the old number, and vice-versa. The correlation table is usually located at the beginning of the topic, after the topic outline. Of course, the correlation tables in the current print volumes reflect only changes made to key numbers last year, not the most current crop of changes.

Thanks to LexLibris.

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Online Job Postings and Other Law Career Resources

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | May 14, 2008 - 17:12

Looking for a job? Our newly posted resource guides may help:

Also take a look at Cleveland Marshall's Office of Career Planning web page.


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Recent Grads, Get Your Lab Printing Refund

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | May 14, 2008 - 15:36

Recent graduates who have added sheets to their network printing account and who have sheets remaining as of 8/01/08 are entitled to a refund of that amount if it is more than $1.00.* To obtain your refund, you’ll need to make an appointment, come to the Law Library and fill out a form to take to the Bursar’s Office for actual payment. The deadline for requesting a refund is 12/31/08. Contact David Genzen, Director of Technology Operations, phone 216-523-7372, or email david.genzen@law.csuohio.edu

*This refund applies only to your lab network printing account and only to value that you have added to that account. Refunds are not given for the pages that the school adds to your account at the beginning of the academic year. Also, we do not give refunds for value added to copy cards.


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