mikeymike wrote:uvalaw4l wrote:silver11 wrote:What are these points and how do you get them?
Westlaw and Lexis are the two big online legal research companies. Pretty much all appellate cases, statutes, rules, legal articles and more are available through those sites, instead of searching by hand through books. Those companies are very expensive when you're out in the real world but they're free while you're a student, so you can practice and get used to them (with the hopes you'll continue to do so when you're a lawyer). Both companies offer various points for different things: doing a search is so many, attending tutorials, using various features, etc. All three years, you can keep adding points and cash them in for different items - from DVDs to camping gear to an XBOX360.
So if you keep using them you get more points? How many pts per hr LOL?
I wish it were per hour! It's like 5 points a day to do a search, 100 points for tutorials, 15 points for a daily trivia question. It adds up over the years.