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Law: Current Awareness

Useful resources

Welcome

  • Some aspects of current awareness overlap with commercial awareness.  The Careers Team and Law School may offer training on commercial awareness, and the Library will have resources that are useful too.
  • Look out for any tailored Library sessions on commercial acumen, researching a business or client, and view the useful links in the Business School’s home page.
  • Legal journals and newsletters – some are published weekly, some monthly and some quarterly.
  • Online Resources: view current information on topical subjects, or create an Alert in any special area of interest
  • Social Media: many legal publishers, organisations, law firms, chambers and individual lawyers will provide blogs, twitter feeds or news feeds or newsletters

Key online resources

Most resources have a current awareness section or legal updates.  Some of them will permit you to create an Alert to receive ongoing updates.  This doesn’t work for all resources.

At any point of a search (for key cases, journals, legislation etc.) you can set up an Alert to track for any new items added to that area and have results delivered by email.  Separately search material in the Current Awareness section for topical information, or to create an Alert.  News is also available on LexisLibrary.  Search for a subject or business etc. and create an Alert to track it for new items.

Search the Current Awareness section or create an Alert.  View the last five days and see the Key Dates Calendar.  Search or browse for more results.  View by most recently added, by subject or document type.  

Practical Law is part of the Thomson Reuters suite of products.  View PLC Magazine, and read the monthly bulletins for any practice area.  As with Westlaw UK it is possible to set up Alerts – look out for the ‘bell’ icon or manage your Alerts through the Alerts Home area in the top navigation bar of Westlaw or Practical Law.

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