When writing for a law review, I like to submit a manuscript with reasonably polished footnotes. I’ll probably never get the footnotes 100% accurate; there are too many “dusty corners” in the bluebook citation system for that. But I try to get the basics correct. To help me do that, I’ve created an online tool for generating footnotes in Bluebook format.
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Some Advanced Westlaw search formats
Westlaw is a powerful tool for searching case law, the scholarly legal literature (“secondary sources”), and more. The basic search tools provided by Westlaw are reasonably good. But, as described below, the tools can be combined together to yield more advanced searches.
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