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Wex Definitions

Under LII’s supervision, Cornell Law students research and draft the content of our free Wex online legal reference collection. The Wex Definitions Project, specifically, began as a reaction to the contracted labor market for law student summer work during 2020, as most legal employers pulled back from their regular practice of bringing in clerks, interns, and summer associates due to the remote work mandates in place at the time.

Since that summer, Cornell Law students have improved upon thousands of definitions originally imported into Wex in an arrangement with a now-defunct third-party online source, replacing them instead with more current and comprehensive, link-dense and example-driven explanations. The project also encourages students to create new definitions where they find a gap in the Wex collection. 

In addition to the Wex Definitions Team, LII has added a Wex Quality Assurance Team to the project. The Wex Quality Assurance Team is a group of Cornell University students who continuously review and flag content to be updated by the Wex Definitions Team. This important work aims to improve the quality of content in Wex and provides aspiring law students with valuable legal research experience. Nichole McCarthy heads up the Wex Definitions projects for LII.

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