This course will help you refine your search construction using both plain language and terms & connectors, while also showing you tools and resources to help you efficiently complete your research assignment. You will leave this program knowing the following: • Searching: how to write efficient searches with both plain language and terms & connectors…

Secondary sources are vital legal tools that provide essential guidance and analysis in every area of the law. Often using Secondary Sources is the best place to start your research. You can get up to speed on a general area of law or dive deep into a specific subject. You can use them to find…

Learn how to conduct legislative history research on Westlaw for a specific act as well as how to research a specific statute. We will see how to find links to other documents on Westlaw that cite to your statute including cases, secondary sources, regulations, and administrative decisions. Also, how to pull up historical versions of…

This CLE will cover an overview of the assessment process in Allegheny County, and will discuss when you should consider filing an assessment appeal and demonstrate how to file assessment appeals. We will conduct a mock hearing to demonstrate the various issues that are commonly raised at assessment hearings. We will also discuss the appeal…

presented by John Unice and Brett Creasy As data within corporations continues to explode due to the use of workplace collaboration tools, mobile devices, and other online repositories, the need for attorneys to understand best practices around how to preserve, collect, analyze and produce that information (when required) is certainly heightened. Coupled with many states'…