Unpublished Orders on Westlaw

Some months ago Westlaw began adding unpublished orders to the Nevada Cases database. These orders are not citable in Nevada courts per SCR 123.

If you are searching NV-CS and wish only to retrieve published opinions, use the following search string to exclude unpublished orders from your result:

search terms % ci(unpublished)

or

search terms AND NOT ci(unpublished)

Be sure to use the "and not" operator at the end of your search. Note, this only works when using Terms & Connectors.

Carson City has Joint Petition for Divorce on website

Carson City has posted Joint Petition for Divorce with/without Children on their website in both Microsoft Word format and PDF. Forms

Updated: Carson City is no longer making forms available in Word format.

Sonia Sotomayor

The Library of Congress has added a page of links to selected resources on Judge Sotomayor to its page on Supreme Court Nominations.

Robert J. Ambrogi wrote a good article reviewing websites with free access to caselaw. The Nevada State Bar offers access to Fastcase for Bar members.

Washoe County Law Library's Foreclosure page

Myndi of the Washoe County Law Library sent me this link to their webpage on foreclosure. Check it out.

Foreclosure help from the government

Nevada has put together an excellent website for foreclosure information:Nevada Foreclosure Help! Las Vegas also has an excellent foreclosure workbook online, the Nevada Foreclosure Information Workbook.

Wake-Up Call on Slipshod Search Terms

From the New York Law Journal:

Evidently weary of deficient keyword searches, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck recently issued a self-styled "wake-up call" to members of the bar in the Southern District. Instead of attorneys designing keywords without adequate information "by the seat of their pants," Peck appealed for keyword formulations based on careful thought, quality control, testing and cooperation.