Sentences with phrase «canadian legal publishers»

I have spoken to two different Canadian legal publishers and both say they understand that (a) lawyers are researching differently these days and (b) that the e-books shouldn't reflect the linear path of print books.

«Canadian Legal Publishers — RSS Feed Update» (October 6, 2006)(http://www.slaw.ca/2006/10/06/canadian-legal-publishers-rss-feed-update/)

Louise Hamel, manager of the Judges» Library for Ontario Courts, just announced to Canadian legal publishers that beginning January 2, 2010, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will assign a neutral citation to their decisions, except for the Small Claims Court.

Now that the Canadian legal publishers have finally come into this decade by putting out RSS feeds, thanks in large measure to his and Connie Crosby's chivvying and chiding, -LRB-(See, e.g., Canadian Legal Publishers — RSS Feed Update)-RRB-, there's some interesting publisher data to work with.

Apparently the other major Canadian legal publishers announced improvements to their products at the recent annual convention of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, but I did not attend the conference and it was only the Westlaw Canada improvements that have impacted me the most so far.]

Following my jubilant post on Thanksgiving about all major English Canadian legal publishers now having new title RSS feeds, in her recent post Why Can't We Be More Like Canada?

That reminds me of one of the Canadian legal publishers who used to — may still — publish a volume called Ontario Provincial Offences (or such like title) which contained a selection of Ontario statutes that create offences.

Stuart was a real character among Canadian legal publishers, a man of strong views and language, who lived his life with gusto — he would tackle any challenge.

Of course we have WiseLII and a Quicklaw app, and it doesn't cover things like the eBook apps that our Canadian legal publishers offer, but it is a lengthy list all the same.

The two leading Canadian legal publishers, Carswell Thomson and LexisNexis Butterworths, have something in common — both face a major challenge for continuing relevance in the Canadian market.

Since Steve Matthew's post back in May about LexisNexis adding RSS feeds to their website, two more Canadian legal publishers have entered the ring:

I am delighted that we have three Canadian legal publishers using RSS feeds for new book titles.

It is time for Canadian legal publishers to end the process of death by a thousand cuts.

The time to do has come for Canadian legal publishers to listen to their customers and act on what they hear.

Our federal system is a great gift to Canadian legal publishers; it means that each province has a considerable body of law and practice unique to that jurisdiction.

Two weeks ago in this space I did a survey of major Canadian legal publishers, only to discover no one has yet started using RSS feeds to supply updated information about their products.

A couple of years ago, we launched LegalPubs.ca to aggregate RSS feeds from Canadian legal publishers.

What's the business model of the future for Canadian legal publishers?

As I reported last month, Canadian legal publisher Maritime Law Book Ltd. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami - based legal publisher that claims to have one of the world's largest collections of legal information, and Justia, the California - based legal information company that is among the world's largest providers and supporters of free access to legal information.

As I reported last month, Canadian legal publisher Maritime Law Book Ltd. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami - based legal publisher that -LSB-...]

Today, a Canadian company backed up by tech interests and talent announced acquisition of an important Canadian legal publisher Maritime Law Book («maritime» here does not mean admiralty law; instead, it refers to the Maritimes — the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island — presumably because that's where the publisher originated).

In the early seventies, Canada Law Book was unquestionably the leading Canadian legal publisher.

So far I couldn't find a single major Canadian legal publisher taking advantage of RSS on their websites.

The «decimation» of print law reports subscriptions described by Eric Appleby in his slaw post has hit every Canadian legal publisher, whether they admit it or not.

Canadian legal publisher Irwin Law has just published The Laskin Legacy: Essays in Commemoration of Chief Justice Bora Laskin:

I participated in a meeting with a Canadian legal publisher's sales rep today to see the latest in their e-book offerings.

Not exact matches

A majority of Canadian courts do not publish their decisions on their web site, in part due to the fact that court decisions are routinely screened, commented upon in the form of headnotes and made available to members of the legal profession by commercial publishers.

I believe the most logical place to start is for publishers to develop output styles for their electronic services that are compatible with the software, as a citation style file that will handle the majority of Canadian primary and secondary legal materials can be created, and this would only require manual editing of those materials that fall outside the style.

If the commercial publishers want to enter the space of free access to Canadian legal information, bless them.

Last November, Maritime Law Book Ltd., a Canadian case law publisher founded in 1969, came under new ownership, led by a new CEO, Colin Lachance, the former president and CEO of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII).

One of the ways CanLII, other legal publishers, and Canadian courts and tribunals have sought to promote the benefits of open access via the internet to the judgments of the courts while minimizing the risk of the negatives identified by Professor Eltis is through shielding the content from Google and other search engines.

Legal publishing in jurisdictions like Victoria — or Canadian provinces for that matter — relies on legal academics or practising lawyers who work hard to write a book, which their publishers will know have very limited sales potenLegal publishing in jurisdictions like Victoria — or Canadian provinces for that matter — relies on legal academics or practising lawyers who work hard to write a book, which their publishers will know have very limited sales potenlegal academics or practising lawyers who work hard to write a book, which their publishers will know have very limited sales potential.

The global legal publisher vLex, LLC and its Canadian partner Compass / vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23 - 25 Global Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of legal materials and then began -LSBlegal publisher vLex, LLC and its Canadian partner Compass / vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23 - 25 Global Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of legal materials and then began -LSBLegal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own publishing of legal materials and then began -LSBlegal materials and then began -LSB-...]

Since then, the publisher — Euromoney's Legal Media Group — has added a Canadian edition, and a guide covering the leading U.S plaintiff firms, plus a series of other surveys and awards.

Gary is quite right that the commercial publishers maintain databases of Canadian legal scholarship in digital form, and that they make these available to law faculties and law students free of cost.

As for a sense of how customers feel about the corporate brands of multinational legal publishers, one need only attend the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries to get a sense of the disconnect that exists in the market between the providers and consumers of legal information on issues relating to updating and pricing in particular.

Not to be lost sight of is the fact that legal treatises and monographs are the legal heritage of all Canadians as well as the property of legal publishers.

[Lest some legal publisher tell me that they do market, they don't do anything in comparison with the expense of the Canadian Book Expo, author tours or half page ads in the Book Section of the Saturday Globe.

Unfortunately, in the Canadian legal publishing market — which is relatively small — the quality of indexes in print law - related books is variable since most publishers put the onus on the author to create their own index (which makes sense, since the author is the subject expert and knows his... [more]

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country (Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2013) pp. 23 - 28.

Whether a researcher at a university, a legal information publisher looking to enter the Canadian market, or a legal tech start - up that seeks to build a niche service to address a public need or market gap, in the absence of a wholesale market how do you go about acquiring the content you seek?

Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary legal resources such as case law and... [Legal publishers have digitized and made available online many Canadian primary legal resources such as case law and... [legal resources such as case law and... [more]

Even as a Canadian content strategy was being developed and implemented in Canada, the authority figures in London continued to be sceptical, still seemingly unaware of the reality that a Canadian legal information publisher must have Canadian legal information to sell if it is to succeed.

Library Boy Canadian Association of Law Libraries Webinar on Relations With Legal Publishers

Iceberg was initially developed after it was announced last May that the Barcelona and Miami - based legal publisher vLex and California - based legal information company Justia would partner with and invest in Compass to launch a major Canadian legal research suite.

The benefit that I gained, while participating with Jason Wilson and Gary Rodrigues in a session on the future of legal publishing at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual conference, was in learning more about the broad range of issues that both concerned and excited law librarians in their relationships with the major law publishers.

In the early 80's, the Canadian Law Information Council (CLIC) noted that the «style of cause» was an important tool to locate decisions and track judicial history in law reports, and that the lack of consistency among those prepared by different publishers was therefore a significant hindrance to the reliability of legal research (see Lounder, Case law reporting in Canada, 1982 and Helleiner, Standards for headnoting: case identification, CLIC, 1984).

Since 1999, the Award has been given by the Association every year to acknowledge the work that is done by publishers to provide the Canadian legal profession with high quality materials for use in understanding and researching the law.

His online guide provides information and links to print and online resources about the Canadian legal system, primary and secondary legal resources, legal organizations and publishers, and offers a section categorized by legal topic.

In the event that online access is near, one would hope that the Trustees of the McGill Law Journal and / or the legal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libralegal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law LibraLegal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.