Sentences with phrase «what did legal research»

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If you can't see this, I can only hope you will consider consulting with an actual legal expert before explaining what you do not understand and refuse to research beforehand.

Though homeschooling is definitely legal in every state, it is still imperative that you do your research first and find out what the requirements are for homeschooling in your state.

Dratel noted that outside law firm income is legal in New York, funding things such as cancer research is not a crime, and legislating on issues campaign donors are interested in — a small step removed from what Silver allegedly did — is standard operating procedure.

«What's clear is there is a problem of significant scope in Niagara County and that not enough people with the ability and the legal responsibility to address that problem have done so,» said Horn, one of the attorneys researching a possible lawsuit.

A New York court extends legal rights reserved for humans to two chimpanzees; what does this mean for biomedical research?

2lst century marketing and public awareness of authoritative information online (or any product / service) without user going to legal aid (lots of people don't know what it is), not contacting a library (a lot of people are bypassing libraries for information research) is a big problem in world where newspapers are increasingly fee - based, tv ads continue to be expensive and people no longer want paper snail mail.

In the process of researching the legality of coil guns in Massachusetts (University engineering project), I stumbled across Cornell's Legal Information Institute, which offers what appears to be a complete rendition of the entire United States Code, and decided to do a little exploring.

My skepticism arises from a number of things including the columnists» lack of evidence or investigation, my own approach to teaching, my research and writing on legal education (both for scholarship and as chair of our curriculum reform committee), and what I see my colleagues at the U of C and in the legal ethics community doing for their students.

What they have that others do not are significant databases of secondary legal - research materials such as treatises, specialized legal - research materials in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.

Missing however, from the self - congratulatory posts, rationalizations for incomplete case law databases, and the unfulfilled promise of expanding its meagre coverage of secondary, was any realistic critique of what had been achieved and what remains to be done if it is to become a useful tool for legal research.

Real legal research has two components: locating information and deciding what to do with it.

For example, periodic, pop - quiz - style research simulations might help students to see that they don't know what they don't know about legal research.54 Either way, they need to understand that running searches is a means to an end.

Qualitative research, in contrast, seeks a deep, contextual understanding grounded in the participants» context.12 Researchers gather data through personal interactions or observations, rather than through objective instruments.13 Common qualitative data collection techniques include observation, interviews, and document review.14 Qualitative research is primarily inductive.15 Researchers begin by conducting a close study of the participants in context, and gradually develop themes and theories based on the participants» experiences.16 Researchers can not understand what it means to «do» legal writing without understanding the participants» experiences — the experiences of both writers and readers.

In return, I will be teaching the student how to do legal research, as well as giving the student some insight into the legal industry, how to prepare for and succeed in law school, what bar exams and campus recruitment processes are like, and what comes after law school.

We did some research of our own and spoke with several legal consultants to find out what firms are most concerned about in 2014.

Unless they were just popping in to get materials for a research paper (this before easy Internet access), these people already had a greater handle on what they needed from legal information than I did.

I've just returned fresh from a research leave where amongst other things I investigated the challenges and possibilities around creating a Canadian subject based research tool that does for Canadian Journals what the wonderful Current Index to Legal Periodicals does for US journals.

I think that there is a huge need to consider very carefully both what legal research will have as the corpus of information to do research in and what kind of standards should be applied in assessing the validity and utility of that corpus.

People are obviously more sensitive to who records what they do when they are researching legal matters.

5) Training: An important aspect of what most law librarians do is to train their patrons on effective legal research and information literacy.

Legal research in the US firms, from what I can gather, is done by law librarians, attorneys in the litigation groups, and by consultants such as Susan; ie.

What follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research procWhat follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research procwhat I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research procwhat, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research process?

Legal research can be tricky so make sure you are looking at material for your jurisdiction (don't look up what you need for a restraining order on a California legal website if you live in Nova ScoLegal research can be tricky so make sure you are looking at material for your jurisdiction (don't look up what you need for a restraining order on a California legal website if you live in Nova Scolegal website if you live in Nova Scotia!)

Please respond by indicating what percentage of your legal research is done on commercial, and free databases (eg.

I would like to know what others are doing in their legal research, however, and propose a survey of sorts.

If this study were re-done today, what percentage of matters referred to lawyers do you think would be found to require legal research?

I hadn't passed character and fitness yet, and so I knew I had to make sure that when we were doing what we did, that we weren't setting ourselves up to get into trouble, so I started just doing some basic research into the legal do's and don'ts, both as a participant and an organizer.

That being said, if everything becomes available in electronic form, what is stopping a talented person in another country from doing Canadian legal research?

What is so unique about the Canadian legal environment that Australia and the UK do not already provide a well - researched, well - documented and well - experienced solution?

What I also think needs to be done, is more emphasis on legal research.

I would like to invite Slaw's readers to embark on a «Chautauqua»; a voyage to explore, not just what is available to the legal researcher, but what good legal research is and how it can be done.

What questions do you have for vendors of legal research, practice management and other technologies and services?

On that note, here are Legal Sourcery's most popular CanLII tips: CanLII's Boolean Operators; CanLII Commentary; CanLII Connects: Start Taking Your Research to the Next Level; CanLII Tutorial Videos; Office of the Residential Tenancies Decisions on CanLII; Saskatchewan Labour Arbitration Awards; Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission on CanLII; What Do You Do When You Find What You've Been Looking For?

Rhim kindly agreed to tell readers about the work he is doing in South Korea and what the latest version of his application will do, which at present focuses on legal research.

Bob Ambrogi: Eric, I think one of the questions that a lot of people wonder about is how do lawyers start to trust AI as a solution for legal research and other applications in the legal field, what do you say to that?

Simpson's research goes further, to also seek to understand: when a state uses its «property rights institutions» to generate revenue, what effect does it have upon competition from private legal services providers?

What exactly did Rod Macdonald, in his research on legal pedagogy, teach us?

Posts share insights from quantitative legal research on corporate law, capital markets, finance, and mergers & acquisitions as well as the debate about what law schools need to do to produce «practice - ready» graduates and «practice - ready» scholarship.

Lee F. Peoples, «The Death of the Digest and the Pitfalls of Electronic Research: What Is the Modern Legal Researcher to Do?»

There are two or more generations involved in this problematic scenario: First the Gen Y's; they may not fully appreciate what a library can do for them; and the Baby Boomers, who have forgotten what they knew about legal research best practices and to some extent have been lulled into believing everything is free on the Internet.

J. 338, 344 (1996) Lee F. Peoples, The Death of the Digest and the Pitfalls of Electronic Research: What Is the Modern Legal Researcher To Do?

According to the article, Liam Law lets consumers do research on local lawyers and compare prices on legal services and includes a legal toolkit describing what consumers should know to hire a lawyer.

In what I think is the second installment of my race to catch all of you up with what I've been doing (I discussed law firm business licenses a couple of days ago), I'm here to talk today about online legal research providers — in particular, my journey to deciding on what to do for my legal research needs.

When I started out figuring out what I was going to do with legal research, I bandied about the thought of trying to use some of the free online resources that are available out there.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positlegal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positLegal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

And so I think that David and Goliath is not really a story that we tell a lot, but I think there is a way to raise the floor a little bit of what people can do with legal research software.

Bob Ambrogi: So what do you think visual tools bring to legal research and what new tools might you be developing?

Legal Problem Solving does what its sub-title proclaims: it tackles not only legal research and writing, but also legal reasoLegal Problem Solving does what its sub-title proclaims: it tackles not only legal research and writing, but also legal reasolegal research and writing, but also legal reasolegal reasoning.

What does articling readiness specific to legal research look like?

What does this have to do with legal research?