The pre-recorded research workshops below were offered in both Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 of this past academic year. All 16 workshops are being offered again during the Summer Semester from May 27th to August 5th.
RESEARCH CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Instructor BRITT HUNTER
Earns credit for the Florida Research and Specialized Research certificates.
Secondary sources are an excellent place to start any legal research project because they increase your efficiency in locating important primary authorities. This workshop is an introduction to locating and using vital secondary authorities like legal encyclopedias, practice guides, and restatements in your federal and Florida legal research.
Instructor DYLAN DUNN
Earns credit for the Practice Ready Research certificate.
PDFs are the ubiquitous go-to standard for electronic document sharing, but how much do you know about what you can do with them? From editing to encryption to character recognition to format conversion, this workshop will show you many PDF tools and tricks that will come in handy for law school, internships, and your future legal career.
Instructor KATIE MILLER
Earns credit for the Florida Research and the Specialized Research certificates.
You might know that municipal laws govern a lot of everyday things like pets, parking, and curfews. But did you know that they often aren’t available on Westlaw or Lexis? Discover where you can research these city and county ordinances for free!
Instructor ELIZABETH FARRELL CLIFFORD
Earns credit for the Practice Ready Research certificate.
The law is constantly changing, so practitioners and legal academics must stay current on cases, legislation, and other legal developments relevant to their area of research or practice. This workshop will identify specialized resources for keeping up with the hottest issues and new developments in your area of interest.
Instructor JUSTIN PETERS
Earns credit for the Practice Ready Research and Specialized Research certificates.
Learn about the federal legislative documents often used by attorneys and courts in determining intent or clarifying vague statutory language. This session will explore various tools for locating compiled histories and specific documents.
OUR PLANET: CONSERVATION RESEARCH
Instructor KATIE CRANDALL
Earns credit for the Advanced Searching Techniques and Practice-Ready certificates.
This workshop will provide a brief introduction to legal research resources focused on land and wildlife conservation. We all want to save the planet and these are a few sources to consider when tackling that task. As Sir David Attenborough says, “the natural world is changing…. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.”
Instructor AMY LIPFORD
Earns credit for the Florida Research and Practice Ready Research certificates.
Need to perform Florida company research or learn about free and paid resources? Want to excel at your summer job? Then this workshop is for you! Learn about important skills for researching businesses in Florida. Hot topics will include: public/private company research, respected business treatises, and popular databases.
Instructor KAT KLEPFER
Earns credit for the Practice Ready Research and Specialized Research certificates.
This primer will help you make sense out of the basic organization and rules found in The Bluebook. Don’t miss out how you can easily locate and apply them for your legal writing needs.
Instructor KATIE CRANDALL
Earns credit for the Specialized Research and Practice-Ready Research certificates.
Before you can know what law applies, you need to fully understand the facts of a situation. This means as attorneys we must sometimes channel our inner Sherlock Holmes. From locating public records to professional licenses, learn how to successfully accomplish your fact-finding mission. After this workshop you will be exclaiming “it’s elementary, my dear Watson!”
Instructor KAT KLEPFER
Earns credit for the Florida Research and Specialized Research Certificates.
Learn how to locate sources for Florida’s administrative rule-making process and the decisions made by administrative agencies based on those rules. This workshop will focus on free resources available online.
Instructor JUSTIN PETERS
Earns credit for the Specialized Research certificate.
Unless you’re especially tech-oriented, you’ve probably only used Google in its simplest form. In this presentation, you will learn a few techniques that will bring your research to another level. Learn how to utilize Google to dig deeper, quicker, and for better results.
Instructor KATIE MILLER
Available Monday, Feb. 5 @ 8am.
Quiz due Monday, Feb. 12 @ 8am.
Earns credit for the Specialized Research and Practice-Ready Research Certificates.
Learn how to expand your research from one good case to find other relevant resources. This workshop is great for those students writing an open memo or students who will be working as a law clerk and want to learn efficient case law research techniques.
Instructor ELIZABETH FARRELL CLIFFORD
Earns credit for the Practice Ready Research certificate.
Legal writing is one of the most common activities in legal practice. In this presentation, you’ll go beyond basic spell check by exploring legal writing tools that will aid your writing process and increase your productivity.
Instructor DYLAN DUNN
Earns credit for the Specialized Research certificate.
When using legal citators like Shepard’s or KeyCite, signal indicators (such as stop signs or red flags) can be a handy tool for finding out which cases are “good law” – but they don’t tell the whole story. This workshop will discuss how citators work, provide some historical context, and go over the subjectivity inherent in determining “good law.”
Instructor KAT KLEPFER
Earns credit for the Florida Research and Practice-Ready Research certificates.
In law school, we study the rules of procedure for criminal and civil cases, but all the motions, briefs, and complaints are filed into a chronological case file called a docket. This workshop will discuss the kinds of filings that are put into a court docket and how to research pending court cases. Using existing briefs and other filings as a template for your own drafting is a huge time saver, so learning to find these materials will be a help when you practice.
Instructor AMY LIPFORD
Earns credit for the Florida Research and Practice-Ready Research Certificates.
Working over the summer and confused about what resources you can use? Want to find cost-effective substitutes for research materials you need? Attend this workshop to get a better understanding of how and when to use resources for your summer job or internship.
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