ASI Webinar: Legal Indexing: A Brief Introduction
with Jennifer Allison
Legal Indexing, A Brief Introduction, will introduce you to foundational information about the U.S. legal system and provide strategies and tips for creating indexes for law-related books.
In this webinar, you will:
- Obtain a basic introduction to the U.S. legal system.
- Gain insight into how lawyers and legal academics use legal terms of art to think, read, and write about law.
- Look through highlights from indexes of legal books.
Whether you have done legal indexing or want to learn more about it, Jennifer’s insight into this specialized field will help you discover whether legal indexing is an area you would like to pursue.
Jennifer Allison worked as an academic law librarian for 15 years, including 10 years at the Harvard Law School Library, prior to starting her freelance editing and indexing business, Manuscript Spa, in 2023. She earned a B.A. in English and German from Pacific Lutheran University, a Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) from San Jose State University, a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Pepperdine Law School, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in German law from the University of Würzburg in Germany. To find out more about Jennifer and her work, visit Manuscript Spa.
This webinar was produced on October 22, 2025.
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