Villanova Law Library Rivalry of Resources: Meet the Teams

Access to study aids including the Examples and Explanations series, Glannon Guides, Emmanuel Law Outlines and more including podcasts and videos. Read online or download and print.

Business law-focused research platform with extensive access to state and federal dockets. Leader in litigation analytics reports for judges, attorneys, firms, companies and more. Includes many transactional drafting tools and sample documents.

On-demand lessons taught by law faculty from around the U.S. Browse by 1L or subject area including legal research lessons for many different states. Also offers many podcasts and access to e-texbooks and hornbooks.

Used by tax lawyers in the field. Contains helpful calculators, tax forms, and tax line locators. Has a chart creator tool for comparing state and local tax rules.

Full-service legal database availalbe to attorneys who are members of select bar associations including Pennsylvania. Features a citator and secondary materials to aid in legal research. Much lower cost than the more popular databases.

Go-to resource for primary and official sources of law from 190 different jurisdictions. Access otherwise hard-to-find English translations of statutes, court cases, dockets and more. Great for figuring out such things as what is the official newspaper of record in Guatemala or locating unique crimes contained in a particular country’s criminal code

Extensive collection of law reviews, bar journals, state and federal statutes, regulations and other agency materials. Wide-ranging special collections covering everything from civil rights to sports law.

National Legal Publisher with many different news outlets based across the country including The Legal Intelligencer, the oldest legal newspaper in the country and which covers the Philadelphia area. Includes law firm rankings and surveys, including the Summer Associates Survey

Legal news platform used by legal professionals for in-depth analysis of legal topics and legal news by region. Covers wide variety of practice areas and includes legal podcasts and job postings.

Contract drafting resource that offers sample contracts, clauses, transactional terms dictionary as well as resource guides and checklists. Users must join the law school's Law Insider Team following the directions posted on the linked page-this establishes an individual account to access the resource as well as make lists/bookmark particular contracts, clauses etc to save for later as well as view a history of what documents have already been viewed on the system.

Extensive directory of detailed contact information including individual email addresses and biographical information. Includes profiles for people and organizations including Congress and Congressional staffers, Government agencies, State and Local Government, News Media outlets, Law and Lobbying Firms, Companies, Nonprofits and Courts. Great for researching employers in a particular location or specific area of law.

One of the "big 2" legal research platforms and offers free printing to law students. Extensive legal news
coverage and offers exclusive access to expert witness materials and public records. Also provides numerous sources for financial documents and company profiles. Recently launched an AI component that draws from many of the primary and some secondary materials within the platform.

Collection of resources created for and by practitioners. Includes CLE Books, transcripts of meetings, access to casebooks, the Answer Book series for practicing attorneys as well as many sample forms and checklists.

Technology training platform where you can learn how to use all of the cool features of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, even PDF manipulation. Now includes Bluebooking and eDiscovery modules!

Specialized resource for corporate and securities research. Many sample forms and guidebooks. Includes "smart charts" used to compare law across jurisdictions. Includes the Daily Corporate Law & Governance News digest covering legislative and agency activities that impact corporations and securities.

World's largest database of American Law. Home to the KeyNumber system, U.S.C.A. and USSCAN.
Offers hundreds of secondary sources and Practical Law drafting and practice resources created by legal practitioners.