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I am interested in seeing EAD finding aids for legal or law-related archives with detailed item-level description. I'm working on a project for the University of Virginia Law Library where we are creating an EAD finding aid for the papers of a retired U.S. District Judge. The papers consist mainly of his unpublished opinions. Since the papers cover 22 years and (I estimate) over 1500 different cases, we want to provide users with more guidance than just the date and case title. We're using a list of subject terms to describe the contents of each case (e.g. "Contracts and agency," "Bankruptcy," etc.), but I am very interested to see what other law archives have done to describe similar materials. Our team may move on to create detailed finding aids for other collections when we are done with these papers, so I have an eye towards creating a more generalized template. Has anyone got models to recommend? Thanks for any help you can offer. Kristin Kristin H. Jensen Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English University of Virginia