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Legal Research: Overview

This Guide will help law students navigate the legal research process.

Navigate the Research Process and Organize Your Research

Navigating the research process requires a plan of some kind to capture and organize your research.  Below, consider the Research Plan Templates, List of Apps to help organize, cite, and take notes during research, and other organizational and sharing tools offered by Westlaw and Lexis.

Westlaw offers the following LIST of video tutorials to help you organize and share your research:

How to Build a Research Outline (2:25)

How to Retrace Your Research History and Pick Up Where You Left Off (3:49)

How to Use Folder to Organize My Research (3:20)

How to Use Annotations and Highlighting Tools (1:52)

How to Create a Research Report (1:34)

How to Bookmark My Go-To Resources (:57)

How to Create a Custom Page (2:07)

Steps to Navigating the Research Process

Research Tools for Organization, Citation, and Notetaking

Apps for Organization, Citation, and Notetaking Online Tutorials

Other Citation Apps:

 

Other Notetaking Apps: