Improving your ProspectsWith Lawbore

Are you feeling behind?Feeling stressed about reading cases?

Do you need help?

Lawbore is the answer!

• Established in 2002, Lawbore is a successful legal portal made for City’s Law students to aid them along the academic road to be successful law students.

• Lawbore will be your legal bible to help you throughout your studies.

What is Lawbore?

How can Lawbore help you?Lawbore has several features that can help Law

students throughout their legal academic studies. These are covered in the following

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Topic guides are a very useful section of the lawbore website as it helps newcomers to the legal world with a very basic understanding of what law has to offer which makes the experience a less daunting one. In fact this makes it exciting as Lawbore has everything under one site.

Cases have never been this easy to look for as the research tab has all the legal skills put into practice.

Topic guides contain clear guides to all the relevant subject areas needed to complete a Law degree!

‘A click away to your legal world’

Provides basic knowledge of topics in order to help us understand it better.

Provides quick access to cases and materials such as legal sites and links as well as a Legal dictionary for all the legal terminology which is confusing to many LLB Freshers.

Helps with career prospects as it outlines the main roles and duties of a professional solicitor/barrister.

Separates each topic clearly .

Provides information on careers and electives that students may want to study.

Clear to understand and is a very useful sight for new legal students as everything is explained.

User friendly and there is no way of getting lost!

Can be accessed outside of the university i.e. home.

Provides detail on the chosen topic for a clear understanding.

It describes the main duties and roles of a solicitor/ barrister as well as helping enhance further skills by mooting etc.

This is fantastic as it gives prospective lawyers a chance to view mooting in real life as their videos and events are placed on the page as well as helping them break the mould should I say with the legal world.

Careers – this tab is very useful as it shows what the legal students have waiting for them at the end of the degree.

Everything in a Click! =)Law would certainly be so hard without it!

Have all the research skills needed for a successful law student

This research tool has been very useful to me as I have everything laid out in one place, it has also made law more understandable

than it was before so I can become more confident in what I

do and wish to achieve!

City’s blogs and updates• Lawbore has a page dedicated to

blogs and this can easily be accessed by City’s law students

• Useful as they keep us up-to-date with law and the legal world. This is useful as textbooks can be outdated.

• Have to be aware of the most relevant law as the law is always changing.

• Some of the biggest figures in the law world, such as Charon QC, and former students offer commentaries on their blogs and websites on a regular basis.

• There is also a Future Lawyer blog which offers tips and helpful advice for students to stay motivated and cope with the work.

‘A click away to your legal world’

E-Library and Databases• Lawbore offers a variety of links to databases

for City law students to use. • Includes websites such as Oxford Scholarship

Online and HeinOnline which enables studentsto have access to e-books and issuesof well known law journals

• These databases can be used to access articlesand more in-depth information about certainareas in law which are not covered as thoroughly in textbooks. This can help improveessays and exam answers with more detail.

‘A click away to your legal world’

E-Library and Databases

• There is also an e-library available for students on Lawbore. This features reports, journals and other texts which will be useful for students during their course

• The e-library allows students to search for information such as case reports quickly on websites such as Westlaw and Lexis.

• This is good as students should not rely on their prescribed casebooks and textbooks but take the initiative to look for the actual case reports either in the library or Lawbore.

• This would also come to use when students are unable to visit the library or for finding up-to-date information about the latest changes in the law.

‘A click away to your legal world’

Are you in a maze trying to figure out how to access City’s links? Being a fresher to the LLB course like many of us can be like solving a complicated puzzle. However, since I have been introduced to the Law bore-Links, I can strongly recommend this will allow any law student to efficiently access what you’re looking for within a second of having glanced at the links option as implemented on the left. (As we are aware, being law students means time management is a crucial part to our lives, in order to be experts in our course.)What Law bore-(links) could do better? Ironic...Improvements?!...Well.. First year LLB law students should certainly be told about Lawbore website in general over the summer in August before they commence onto their first year of the LLB in September. This will help us become more familiar with the subject and teach us the basic skills.

How has Law bore-links helped us? Easily Approachable/Efficient- This resource

is easily approachable because all you simply have to do is search the law bore website, once accessed click onto the City Hub link, scroll down and you are merely at your destination to all the possible links needed to fulfil your need whilst a city law student. ( Note: Options of Links are implicated above.)

Easy to use-Best way put: Regardless of whether you have or haven't accessed the City Hub link on the Law bore website before, whatever link you are after will be straightforward to access as soon as you click the City Link on the Law bore website. Fantastic!

Less time consuming- On a whole, rather than having to first get access to and then log onto the City University website, we are glad to say that Law bore has been uniquely tailored to save as much crucial time as possible for Law students. Thus, everything is a Click away whenever you need it!

Here’s what City’s Law Students think...

Being a new student to the LLB course was literally very hard at first. However, since I have been introduced to Lawbore, I have been able to better understand the legal tools under one compact website which is very easy to follow and access. I will recommend Lawbore to any Law student who was at first once lost in the world of law just like me.

Never having taken law before, I have found myself struggling with the subject at first. However with Lawbore to aid along with my reading, I find myself able to gradually catch up.

Since studying law, it can be really hard at times to catch up with all the reading and also to engage with the social aspect of University life. However, since using lawbore it has been a useful aid to support me with my law studies especially when I do not know how to structure certain things.