Sentences with phrase «legal research skills required»

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Legal research educators must address the critical evaluation skills required in the Internet age.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

The facts of particular issues that you are working on may require further research in a particular area, but that is where your legal skills come in...

Research has confirmed that legal insecurity leads to lower investments in households, businesses and the specialised skills required to obtain better jobs.

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Throughout this Article, the term «legal writing» will be used as shorthand to refer to the required course (encompassing a two - semester course in the first year, and, increasingly, an additional semester in the second year, and sometimes, the third year) that covers written and oral communication, advocacy, legal research, analysis, and depending on the program, additional skills.

Law school deans and faculties have come to recognize that legal writing courses provide the opportunity for teaching essential skills that are unlikely to be taught nearly as well elsewhere in the law school curriculum, that there is an essential core content to an excellent legal writing program, and that effective teaching of that content requires professional legal writing faculty who regularly devote substantial portions of their effort to teaching legal writing, research, and analysis.7

Aggressive litigation requires legal research, the ability to handle voluminous documents, technology skills and deep pockets to advance the costs for experts and consultants.

Doing this requires a significant amount of preparation, investigation, legal research, and skill.

Among other considerations sought from UdM by the FLSC to meet the requirements of the national common law program (see Appendix A of the report), the university is adding two more classes to its program: Integration Workshop (problem - solving, research and oral and written legal communication skills) and Ethics and Professionalism, which requires students to demonstrate «an awareness and understanding of the ethical requirements for the practice of law in Canada.»

The article is meant as a guide for lawyers, because putting Holland's strategies to work in court requires some decent legal research skills along with the ability to assemble a coherent legal argument and defend it in court.

Research and drafting of legal memoranda are important lawyer tasks and should be required, as these skills are important to the competent handling of legal matters.

In the UK there was a joint statement from the Law Society and Bar Council required universities / institutions offering qualifying law degrees to include key skills, including legal research skills in their programmes from 2002.

The successful candidate will teach two sections each semester (approximately 20 students per section; a 2/2 course load) of Lawyering Skills I & II, the required two - semester first - year legal research, writing, and analysis course.

However, candidates are often required to have some very specific knowledge of international affairs, legal insight around a particular area or advanced research skills.

Computer Skills: Legal secretaries need to possess the skills required for copying and pasting, creating spreadsheets, printing documents, writing emails, researching legal documents, and faxing and transcribing Skills: Legal secretaries need to possess the skills required for copying and pasting, creating spreadsheets, printing documents, writing emails, researching legal documents, and faxing and transcribing nLegal secretaries need to possess the skills required for copying and pasting, creating spreadsheets, printing documents, writing emails, researching legal documents, and faxing and transcribing skills required for copying and pasting, creating spreadsheets, printing documents, writing emails, researching legal documents, and faxing and transcribing nlegal documents, and faxing and transcribing notes.