Latest and Greatest - Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Attorney’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary

By Ira G. Dox, et al.

West Publishing Company, 1997 (& Supplement 2015)

R 121 .A8 1997

New on the library shelves is Attorney’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Written for attorneys, researchers, and anyone looking to understand medical terminology, this dictionary has over 30,000 terms, defined using simple rather than overly technical words that would require an additional resource to decipher. The illustrations are well-delineated with defined terms highlighted with red ink and arrows and lines indicating important aspects of the drawings.  Appendices provide useful information such as abbreviations and symbols commonly used in medicine, reference values for laboratory tests of clinical importance, and an index to the illustrations. Various tables and illustrative plates are peppered throughout the book, offering the reader even more assistance with wading through complex medical concepts and terms.

Latest and Greatest - American Law Institute Library on HeinOnline

We are proud to announce our most recent addition to the HeinOnline family: the American Law Institute Library. This collection features ALI’s most well-known publications, including:

  • Restatements & Principles of the Law
  • Uniform Commercial Code
  • ALI Annual Reports
  • Proceedings of ALI Annual Meetings
  • ALI Reporter

Plus, you can find model penal codes, other ALI-CLE Publications, and links to other scholarly articles found on HeinOnline.

Searching the ALI materials couldn't be easier. Simply connect to HeinOnline in the Law Library and choose the American Law Institute Library from Hein’s database home page. From there, you can browse through the alphabetized title lists or do a simple keyword search. Another option is to select the Advanced Search option and refine and limit your search to section titles, text, document type, and date. On the Results page, search terms are highlighted in yellow for easy viewing. In addition, all highlighted citations to the Restatements and cases are actually hyperlinks so all you have to do is click. How easy is that? Also, HeinOnline features a ScholarCheck tool that keeps track of the number of times a Restatement section has been cited.

So, come on over to the Library and be sure to take a look at the American Law Institute Library.

Looking Back - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

February 2, 1848 – On this day, representatives from the United States and Mexico, including Nicholas Philip Trist, on behalf of President Polk, signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, officially bringing an end to the Mexican-American War. Named for the Mexican city in which the peace agreement was signed, the treaty established the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of the United States and required Mexico to relinquish and surrender all claims to Texas. The treaty also compelled Mexico to cede Arizona, New Mexico and California and parts of Colorado, Utah and Nevada to the United States. In exchange, the United States agreed to pay $15 million for damage caused to Mexican property during the war and agreed to protect the civil rights of Mexican nationals living within its borders.

If you would like to read more about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and view some copies of the manuscripts, visit the Library of Congress’ online collection.

First page of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

From the Nicholas Philip Trist Papers, 1795-1873,  Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

The Elusive Section Symbol

Ah, the elusive section symbol. Whether you’re a litigator who uses it in case captions or you do transactional work and often cite to statutory law, this symbol is a mainstay of your legal writing. But you may notice it’s not standard on your QWERTY keyboard. Here are two methods for getting the section symbol where it needs to go when using Word.

Method 1 – The quick way

The fastest method to insert a section symbol is to use the default hotkey sequence.

  • Step 1: place the cursor where you want to insert the symbol.
  • Step 2: press and hold the “Alt” key.
  • Step 3: press and release the “2” key in the number pad.
  • Step 4: press and release the “1” key in the number pad.

A section symbol should now appear where you placed the cursor and you can release the “Alt” key. From here, you can copy and paste or simply follow the steps above to place the symbol where you need it.

Method 2 – The slow way

Why would you want to go the slow way? Well, this is the way to insert any available symbol into a Word document and to discover new hotkeys…so…there’s that…

  • Step 1: place the cursor where you want to insert the symbol.
  • Step 2: click the “Insert” tab (note: this should be at the top of the window depending on your version of Word).
  • Step 3: click the “Symbol” option and select “More Symbols.”
  • Step 4: scroll to find the section symbol (hint: it’s usually near the top) and click it.

Tip: when you select a symbol, a “Shortcut key” appears near the bottom of the window. If you press and hold the “Alt” button and then type the sequence of numbers appearing in the “Shortcut key” section using the number pad, you can insert the corresponding symbol into your Word document. While it would be silly to memorize them all, you may find it useful to remember the shortcut for commonly-used symbols.

  • Step 5: click the “Insert” button in the symbol window. 

Latest and Greatest - The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet

The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet

Carole A. Levitt & Mark E. Rosch

Internet for Lawyers

KFT 242 .A1 L478 2015

Do you feel you need the investigative skills of Sherlock Holmes to find free legal resources and information on the Web? If so, then The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch is just the book for you. From the mechanics of Web searching for “newbies” to sophisticated search techniques for more savvy Web users, this book will help you locate public records, assets, vital records, criminal records, and older versions of Web pages. The authors also explain the importance and ethical concerns of searching social network sites, a practice that is becoming more common, especially in family law matters. Other sites for investigative and legal research include: search engines, court dockets, telephone directories, political campaign contribution sites, and case law databases. For those of you willing (and able) to spend the money, there are some pay investigative research databases the authors discuss and recommend.

Happy sleuthing!