Shine in your Summer Associate Position
Review training videos and step-by-step guides to ensure you’re ready to take on research and drafting assignments that will come your way as a summer associate.
Increase Your Generative AI Knowledge
Gain a deeper understanding of how generative AI works and how you can use these cutting-edge tools in your work. Click the videos below to unlock additional generative AI learning opportunities.
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Search Prompt Fundamentals
Learn the basic elements of an effective legal search prompt for generative AI.
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Drafting Prompt Fundamentals
See how to craft an effective generative AI prompt for the creation of legal documents and clauses.
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Upload Prompt Fundamentals
Use uploaded documents to create effective generative AI search and drafting prompts.
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Advanced Drafting Prompts
Learn to use “Engineered Prompts” to ensure your generative AI drafts strike the correct tone.
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Advanced Summarization Search Prompts
Incorporate generative AI summaries into search prompt for more effective context and results.
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Advanced Summarization Drafting Prompts
Utilize generative AI summaries into drafting prompts for strong first drafts.
Gain Expertise in your Practice Area Focus
Dig into practice area and practical guidance resources below. This summer is the perfect opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a specific practice area and refine your area of interest.
Bankruptcy
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: TACKLING BANKRUPTCY RESEARCH
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: UNDERSTANDING THE LOAN TRANSACTION
Civil Litigation
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: BRIEF WRITING FUNDAMENTALS
CIVIL LITIGATION PROCESS MAP: DISCOVERY (FEDERAL)
Commercial Transactions
Construction
Corporate and M&A
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE: DRAFTING FUNDAMENTALS: ANATOMY OF A CONTRACT FOR NEW LAWYERS VIDEO
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: DRAFTING FUNDAMENTALS: DEFINED TERMS
Data Security & Privacy
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION EQUITY PLAN
Energy & Utilities
Financial Services Regulation
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: CRYPTOCURRENCY REGULATION OVERVIEW
Healthcare
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (HIPAA) FUNDAMENTALS
Insurance
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE: NAIC DATA PROTECTION & CYBERSECURITY MODELS AND PRINCIPLES FOR INSURERS VIDEO
Intellectual Property
Labor & Employment
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK DRAFTING AND REVISING
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: STATE LAW LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH
Life Sciences
Private Equity & Investment Management
Introduction to Private Equity Funds
Private Equity Fund Formation Resource Kit
Real Estate
Commercial Real Estate Acquisition Loan Resource Kit
PURCHASING AND SELLING COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE RESOURCE KIT
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE VIDEO: COMPONENTS OF A TITLE REPORT AND TITLE POLICY
Essential Legal Research Skills
Review training videos and step-by-step guides to ensure you know the Lexis+ tools that can help you handle all the legal research requests that will come your way as a summer associate.
Leverage data visualizations to identify citing patterns and trends across time and jurisdictions.
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Fundamentals of Drafting: Cross-References
Learn how to streamline an agreement with cross references to other sections of the document.
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Fundamentals of Drafting: Defined Terms
See how to minimize potential disputes over interpretation of an agreement by utilizing defined terms.
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Ravel View
Leverage data visualizations to identify citing patterns and trends across time and jurisdictions.
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Search Term Maps
Find relevant resources faster by reviewing search term patterns and the largest concentration of your terms.
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Lexis Answers
Resolve legal questions with ease by locating the answers directly within the document where the answer is found.
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Search Tree
Understand your search results with a visual representation of how your search terms, connectors, phrases, or segments are treated.
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Brief Analysis
Build stronger arguments and find relevant materials with targeted recommendations and analysis, based on your document.
Track Your Firm and Important Contacts
Knowledge about high-profile cases involving the firm or a specific partner can be used as a conversation starter with associates outside of your practice group, helping you to build relationships throughout the firm.
Search by firm, attorney, or client name on Law360 to read about the latest case developments.
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Set up alerts to keep track of the latest developments for a case involving your firm or a specific attorney you’d like to track.
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Stay Informed with Social Justice Resources
Equal Justice Practice Center
Find Law360 Justice Reports, Statutes & Pending Legislation, and other top sources.
Learn MoreVoting Rights Resource Kit
Resources on voting rights in the U.S., with links to advocacy organizations. In addition, this resource kit provides links to primary law, secondary sources, and news articles in Lexis to help you understand the legal landscape of voting rights protections.
Get the kitProtestors’ Rights Resource Kit
Resources to inform protesters and the press covering protests of their legal rights. The resources also provide practical tips when in a protest or in encounters with law enforcement.
Get the kitRacial Equality & Police Reform
Curated state & local legislative and regulatory information for purposes of tracking government action.
Learn MoreLaw360 Access to Justice
Expert analysis and articles on equal justice issues.
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