Jenkins Blog

February 13, 2024

Jenkins Law Library: Really On Your Desktop

For several years we've offered a CLE webinar on our remote-access databases . Now we've taken it a step further by placing our whole facility at your fingertips. We've just added a Google Street View virtual tour of our space . You can check out the digitized portraits at 3:00 am. (Are the eyes...

Courts

February 9, 2024

Public Notices in The Legal Intelligencer

Looking for public notices or court listings in The Legal Intelligencer ? The Legal Intelligencer , published by ALM , has moved to a digital only format. The last print edition was published December 29, 2023, but public notices, sheriff's sale and court listings are still available through their...

February 2, 2024

Celebrating Black History Month 2024

February 1st marks the beginning of Black History Month. Black History Month's inception began in the summer of 1915 by Carter G. Woodson -- an alumnus of the University of Chicago. Inspired by a three-week celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation held in Illinois, Woodson formed the...

Research Guides

January 26, 2024

Self-Help Research Guides

Jenkins Law Library has a collection of research guides accessible to both members of the library and members of the general public. These guides may assist users with their legal research by providing additional resources and information on finding the law. Our librarians regularly update and...

January 11, 2024

Using Keycite and Shepard's for Court Rules

Researching a court rule and looking for cases? Shepardize or Keycite the rule. Take as an example PARCP 402 which deals with manner and acceptance of service. When you pull up this rule on Westlaw, you get over 2,000 citing references: These citing references can then be filtered by cases,...

Legal History

January 5, 2024

Pennsylvania State Archives Reopen!

The Pennsylvania State Archives officially re-opened their doors to the public on December 13th, 2023. According to an alert on their website, the archives are open for research Wednesday through Saturday from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. In anticipation of their move to a larger facility, the archives...

Jenkins On Your Desktop

December 21, 2023

A Members' Guide to Accessing Remote PA Materials

Jenkins Law Library will be closed for the upcoming holiday from Monday, December 25th through Monday, January 1st . However, there are numerous remote resources available that our members can use for research in our absence! See below for some commonly used remote materials that are available 24/7...

Court Records and Briefs

December 14, 2023

Jenkins' Court Records & Briefs Database

At Jenkins we have a large collection of Pennsylvania briefs and records from the Pennsylvania Appellate Courts. After 2006, most of the material has been digitized, and much of it is accessible for free to Jenkins' members in our Court Records & Briefs database. If you are looking for a...

December 7, 2023

PhilaDox: Obtain Property Records from the Philadelphia Department of Records

If you need a copy of a real estate document that was recorded in Philadelphia - such as a deed, mortgage, declaration of condominium, lis pendens, certificate of stock transfers, easement, etc. - check out PhilaDox . PhilaDox is an online system that allows users to search for deeds and other...

Courts

December 1, 2023

Pennsylvania Superior Court: Over 125 Years of Justice

Congratulations to the PA Superior Court, which recently celebrated its 125th anniversary! In 1895 the Legislature of Pennsylvania established the PA Superior Court as an intermediate appellate court. Its jurisdiction was to hear appeals from certain types of decisions of the courts of common pleas...

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