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Gallagher Basics: Welcome to Law School!

Registering for and Using Legal Databases

So you know that Bloomberg, Lexis+, and Westlaw are legal research databases, but how do you use them? And more importantly, how do you register? Check out these videos to find out. Want more? We have an entire research guide dedicated to explaining the three systems. You can find it here:

Introduction to Legal Databases (Gallagher Basics series) (8:43)

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding registering for legal databases. If you have additional questions not addressed here, please reach out to us at lawref@uw.edu. 

Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg, CALI FAQs