Accessing Lotus Notes Webmail through our Blackboard Portal
(single sign-on portal) 

Seton Hall Law School provides Lotus Notes email to all students, faculty, administration and staff for the expressed purpose of fostering communication and workflow among members of the law school community and outside email users.

Upon admittance to SHU law, a Lotus Notes email account is created for you using the first 6 letters of your LAST name and the first 2 of your FIRST name.  This 8 letter designation is known as your Notes Domino ID or "shortname" and together with our domain extension (shu.edu) forms your email address. (Ex. cooperjo@shu.edu for Joseph Cooper )

If your last name is less than 6 letters then your code is your entire last name and as much of your first name as needed to reach 8 letters. (Ex: smithjos for Joseph Smith).  If your last and first name together do not consist of 8 letters, then use your entire last name and entire first name. (Ex. bellann for Ann Bell)

Your first time Lotus Notes/Blackboard Portal password is the first 4 letters of your last name in CAPS, then the last 4 of your social security number, then the # sign. (ex.  SMIT1234# for Joseph Smith).

Lotus Notes email (or Webmail) can be accessed at the "MyLaw(wemail)" button on the top web navigation menu.   This will bring you to our Blackboard portal, also known as MyLaw, where you can enter your login code and password.   Once in MyLaw (you may have to login twice due to Microsoft's latest security settings), click on the Webmail tab at the upper left to enter your email.

Please note that your Webmail and Blackboard Portal accounts use the SAME login code and password for authentication.  It is highly recommended that all first time network users change their SHU "internet" password to something more private and easily remembered. You can change your Webmail / Blackboard password by first entering Blackboard and clicking on the "Change Your Internet Password" link in the Tools menu on the left.

Please note that your Webmail/Blackboard Portal password and your Novell network password are two different passwords, even though they start out as the same password. This is done for security purposes so changing one does not change the other.  We recommend that you manually synchronize both these passwords so that they are more easily remembered, or use two different passwords for higher security.

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