Click here for more information on WVU e-mail accounts. The College of Law has a demanding and varied program in legal research and writing in order to assure that students have mastered skills necessary for the study and practice of law. Students are often required to submit multiple drafts of graded assignments. When you are purchasing a computer for law school, it is important to consider whether the word-processing software will support your needs for writing legal documents in law school. In our experience, students who only have access to Microsoft Works cannot produce papers that meet the requirements of legal writing.
Many computers come equipped with software packages.
The Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 - Standard Edition comes with WordPerfect version 9.0. Corel also produces a Law Office 2000 that includes WordPerfect version 9.0, a Lexicon from Black's Law Dictionary, and other bells and whistles useful for practicing attorneys. While many of these features are handy, they are not required for law school computing. The library has created Legal Writing tips to assist law students. Legal research is very different from research performed at the undergraduate level.