The law students must also satisfy an advance legal writing requirement to graduate. Professors teaching an upper level course with a writing component can choose to incorporate a research class in the LIT Lab. This ensures that the students have a working knowledge of using both the legal online databases and the Internet for research purposes. The students have several legal drafting assignments during their first year of law school. The students must fulfill an advanced legal writing requirement and a substantial drafting assignment before graduating.
Students also use the lab facilities to draft resumes and cover letters for job placement purposes.
The law students and faculty can access the Internet in the LIT Lab via the NKU campus network. The law students and faculty can use Eudora Pro to access electronic mail while in the LIT Lab and from home. The library offers access to several legal publications in CD-ROM format. Kentucky Law on Disk and CALI , Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.