A presentation on improving your prostects with Lawbore by: Afsha Ghafoor, Henna Saleemi, Iqra Hussain & Yee Xin Chai.

2. Are you feeling behind?
Feeling stressed about reading cases?
Do you need help?
Lawbore is the answer!

3. • 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.

4. Lawbore has several features that can help Law
students throughout their legal academic
studies. These are covered in the following
slides:

5. Failure
Success

6. ‘A click away to your legal world’
Cases have never been this
Topic guides are a very useful section of the easy to look for as the
lawbore website as it helps newcomers to the research tab has all the
legal world with a very basic understanding of legal skills put into
what law has to offer which makes the practice.
experience a less daunting one.
In fact this makes it exciting as Lawbore has
everything under one site.
Topic guides contain
clear guides to all the
relevant subject areas
needed to complete a
Law degree!

7. It describes the Provides quick access to cases and Helps with career
main duties and materials such as legal sites and links prospects as it outlines
roles of a as well as a Legal dictionary for all the main roles and duties
solicitor/ the legal terminology which is of a professional
barrister as well
as helping confusing to many LLB Freshers. solicitor/barrister.
enhance further
skills by mooting Provides
etc.
information on
Clear to careers and
understand and electives that
is a very useful students may
sight for new want to study.
legal students as
everything is
explained. Separates each topic
clearly .
Provides basic
knowledge of Provides detail User friendly
topics in order to on the chosen Can be accessed and there is
help us topic for a clear outside of the no way of
understand it understanding. university i.e. home. getting lost!
better.

8. This is fantastic as it gives prospective lawyers a chance to view Have all the research
mooting in real life as their videos and events are placed on skills needed for a
the page as well as helping them break the mould should I say successful law student
with the legal world.
Careers – this tab is very This research tool has been very
useful as it shows what the
useful to me as I have everything
legal students have waiting
for them at the end of the laid out in one place, it has also
degree. made law more understandable
than it was before so I can
Everything in a Click! =) become more confident in what
Law would certainly be so hard I do and wish to achieve!
without it!

9. ‘A click away to your legal world’
• 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.

10. ‘A click away to your legal world’
• 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 students
to have access to e-books and issues
of well known law journals
• These databases can be used to access articles
and more in-depth information about certain
areas in law which are not covered as
thoroughly in textbooks. This can help improve
essays and exam answers with more detail.

11. ‘A click away to your legal world’
• 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.

12. 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
How has Law bore-links helped us? implemented on the left. (As we are aware,
 Easily Approachable/Efficient- This resource being law students means time management
is easily approachable because all you simply have to is a crucial part to our lives, in order to be
do is search the law bore website, once accessed click
experts in our course.)
onto the City Hub link, scroll down and you are merely
at your destination to all the possible links needed to What Law bore-(links) could do better?
fulfil your need whilst a city law student. ( Note: Ironic...
Options of Links are implicated above.)
Improvements?!...
 Easy to use-Best way put: Regardless of whether Well.. First year LLB law students should
you have or haven't accessed the City Hub link on the
Law bore website before, whatever link you are after certainly be told about Lawbore website in
will be straightforward to access as soon as you click general over the summer in August before
the City Link on the Law bore website. Fantastic! they commence onto their first year of the LLB
 Less time consuming- On a whole, rather than in September. This will help us become more
having to first get access to and then log onto the City familiar with the subject and teach us the
University website, we are glad to say that Law bore basic skills.
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!

13. Never having taken law
before, I have found
Being a new student to the LLB myself struggling with
course was literally very hard at the subject at first.
first. However, since I have been However with Lawbore
introduced to Lawbore, I have been to aid along with my
able to better understand the legal reading, I find myself
tools under one compact website able to gradually catch
which is very easy to follow and up.
access. I will recommend Lawbore
to any Law student who was at first
once lost in the world of law just
like me.
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.