Westlaw's Massachusetts Practice series is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Massachusetts law.
We highly recommend that you begin any research into Massachusetts law by consulting Massachusetts Practice.
In addition to Massachusetts Practice the collection available on Westlaw includes treatises (systematic works on various areas of Massachusetts law), CLE materials, jury instructions, law reviews, and legal newspapers.
Secondary sources available on Lexis include treatises, guides, CLE materials, and law review articles. Of particular note is the Handbook of Legal Research in Massachusetts, a useful guide to the variety of materials available on Massachusetts law.
"The Massachusetts Guide to Evidence is prepared annually by the Supreme Judicial Court’s Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law. By direction of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, the Guide organizes and states the law of evidence applied in proceedings in the courts of the Commonwealth, as set forth in the Federal and State Constitutions, General Laws, common law, and rules of court." (Trial Court Law Libraries).
The BC Law community has access to all Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) content via OnlinePass. This includes webcasts, ebooks, forms, checklists, practice manuals, Board of Bar Overseers disciplinary decisions, and Massachusetts administrative agency rulings and decisions.
