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PA Legal Forms
January 23, 2020

New Interactive Web Forms in PA Legal Forms Database

Gale's PA Legal Forms has a new feature that allows users to complete a selection of documents using its interactive web forms. For those unfamiliar with this database, PA Legal Forms provides access to over 5,700 forms on a wide-range of legal topics. You can search for forms using keywords from...
News & Events
January 16, 2020

New Phila, PA, and NJ Laws in 2020

With the new year comes a slew of new laws that go into effect in 2020. Let’s take a look at a selection of laws that will impact the lives of Philadelphians, other residents of Pennsylvania, and New Jersey in the upcoming year. Philadelphia Locally, Philadelphia City Council passed legislation...
VitalLaw
January 14, 2020

Wage and Hour Opinion Letters - CCH

Wage and Hour Opinion letters are issued by the Wage and Hour Division Administrator at the Department of Labor to help the public understand the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA): "As part of the administration of the FLSA and the FMLA,...
Historical
January 9, 2020

Works from 1924 Enter the Public Domain

This year, copyrighted works published in 1924 have entered the public domain after 95 years of copyright protection. In 2019, published works entered the public domain for the first time in decades after a 20 year lapse. Several amendments to federal copyright law throughout the 20th century...
HeinOnline
January 7, 2020
Word Cloud of Jenkins Services

Jenkins 2019 Year in Review

Now that our first year in our new location has come to an end, we decided to revisit the new resources we've added and go over some of the work we've done in 2019. Jenkins added a new in house database this year - Cheetah from Wolters Kluwer . This database has extensive and comprehensive coverage...
News & Events
December 19, 2019
Happy New Year

Happy New Year from Jenkins Law Library

We will be closed on Tuesday, December 31 and Wednesday, January 1. Wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year 2020!
HeinOnline
December 19, 2019

New HeinOnline Database: U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library

HeinOnline has announced the addition of a new database, The U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library . The database includes documents related to the impeachment of the four affected presidents, and also provides a general overview of impeachment with resources from the Congressional Research Service...
News & Events
December 19, 2019
Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays from Jenkins Law Library

We will be closed on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25. Wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season!
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
December 17, 2019

Understanding Legal Search Algorithms

Ever wonder why the same search across different legal databases can produce results with different relevancy rankings? It's because of the unique algorithms each database uses. In order for researchers to better understand how the databases cultivate their specific algorithms, representatives from...
Statutes
December 12, 2019

Purdon's Master Disposition Table

Since 1970, the Pennsylvania legislature has worked on a project to group all of the Pennsylvania statutes by subject. The project consolidates the laws into Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (Pa.C.S.) titles that are organized by subject. Prior to 1970, all Pennsylvania statutes were...