This guide contains registration tips for the Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law legal research databases, as well as vendor-provided materials and information about training sessions as they become available.
This guide is intended for Harvard Law School students only. Faculty, staff and other Harvard affiliates should contact research@law.harvard.edu for assistance.
Introductory and ongoing vendor training sessions will be posted here and on our Research Training Calendar as they become available. Click on the links there, or under "Upcoming Events" below, to sign up.
At this time, no sessions will take place on the HLS campus. All sessions will be conducted online.
NOTE: Training sessions may be geared toward a particular group (such as 1Ls) or focus on a particular topic, but anyone (LLMs, Transfers, etc) may attend.
To register for Lexis, go to https://register.lexisnexis.com/. Enter your name and HLS student email address on the first page, along with the HLS registration code you received in your library email. On the second page, please be sure to select the radio button for “Student,” and then select your appropriate program term (e.g. 3 years).
Once you’ve registered your Lexis+ ID, you can start using Lexis+ right away for legal research at https://plus.lexis.com.
For further assistance, contact our Lexis account representative, Meredith Shuman Casale: meredith.shuman@lexisnexis.com.
You will receive an email directly from Thomson Reuters with your individual registration codes and instructions. To register for Westlaw, go to https://lawschool.thomsonreuters.com/register/.
Once you've completed registration, visit lawschool.westlaw.com to start conducting legal research.
For further assistance, please contact our account representative, Mark Frongillo: mark.frongillo@thomsonreuters.com
To register for Bloomberg Law, go to https://profile.bna.com/bloomberglaw-activate/. Enter the personal activation code you received in your library email. Be sure to register using your HLS email address.
For further assistance, please contact our account representative, Miche de Jean: mjean@bloombergindustry.com.
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