Services

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Library Managed Services

Point-to-Point staffing, loose-leaf filing assistance, cataloging, collection development and beyond.

Contact Kirsten Leary at (617) 226-1358.

Web Design & Web Hosting

The Social Law Library has been assisting lawyers with website design & hosting since 1996.

Let us help you!

Contact Technology Services at [email protected] or 617-226-1570.

Reference Assistance

Reference Attorneys can help locate current and historical legislation from other states, track bills, 50 state surveys, compile older agency rules and regulations not available online.

Do you need to find a Practice Guide for a particular state? Have a cite to a book you don’t own? Our Reference Attorneys are here to help.

Are you looking for unpublished decisions? Need a form? Unsure of where the best place to start your research? Our Reference Attorneys are here to help.

Call the Reference Department at (617) 226-1520.

Research Instruction & Training

From the basics on how to use the Library’s website to the more complex like searching Westlaw. Available to anyone, anytime at your office or in the Library.

Call Reference at (617) 226-1520.

Legal Alerts

Current awareness services on everything from recent Massachusetts legislation and breaking news to judicial assignments, journal articles and more.

Document Delivery

Email or print delivery of court documents, case law citations, journal articles, book chapters and more.

 Call (617) 226-1510.

Massachusetts Legal Tracking

Up to the minute content on breaking legislative news, bill tracking, floor discussion, reports and testimony.

Call Reference at (617) 226-1520.

Case Law, Litigation, Corporate Counsel, Judicial Profile Research

Assistance obtaining unpublished decisions and court records, identifying breaking case law, background info on important judges and expert witnesses.

Call Reference at (617) 226-1520.

Massachusetts Legislative & Regulatory Research

Current and superseded primary materials; legislative history reports; Senate and House sessions, bills and testimony.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

The Library can borrow materials from local and national libraries on topics ranging from medicine and engineering to scientific journals, graduate thesis and conference proceedings.

Awards and Recognition

Social Law is winner of three first place awards in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Reading Rankings survey.

Best Legal Research
Best CLE
Best Web Design