Sentences with phrase «who does legal research»

Sorry if you thought I am writing a «Who does legal research anymore, anyway?»

9) The line in Legally Blonde that says «Law school is for people that are boring, ugly and serious» really applies to people who do legal research.

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Those banks who do will be adding a flourishing industry to their portfolios — the latest projections from industry analysis firm ArcView Market Research indicate that the legal cannabis industry will add $ 2.57 billion to the American economy in 2014.

At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

DiTullio called Ryan after making unsuccessful attempts to reach city lawyers, who had done the legal research used to deny the permit, according to Leahy Scott's report.

But since January 2009, Ari Daniel Shapiro — he uses his middle name to avoid confusion with the Ari Shapiro who reports for NPR on the Department of Justice and legal affairs — has earned his living as an independent radio and multimedia producer, recording sounds, editing audio, and doing all the things necessary to create science - related radio shows for public radio and podcasts and audio slide shows for the Web sites of research institutions.

For researchers who manage to navigate the legal tangles and funding troubles of gun research, actually doing the research itself isn't easy.

That question led to a list of 16 young men and women who are launching and leading organizations that will lead in the transformation of public education over the next decade, as well as people who are doing important research, legal, political, and policy work that will shape the future of education reform.

If you are not the type of person who enjoys legal research in your free time, or don't have patience for translating wordy statutes and confusing case laws from around the country, then this might not be for you.

But, a basically aesthetic motivation that mostly matters to people who make up a tiny portion of the main users of the product (non-lawyers) that poses multiple threats to how statutes will be located using legal research tools, and how it will be interpreted once located, means that reorganizing statutes is not something to be done lightly.

Second, my approach would improve legal scholarship because the only people producing scholarship would be those who are highly skilled in doing research (and who therefore understand the difference between research and advocacy) and the scholarship would be evaluated in the same way as scholarship in other academic fields.

In the support - services method, legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists in doing legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future research projects.

Making legal research seem as difficult as possible has a certain appeal, especially for those who will have to do that work professionally.

As a result, it now provides much more than legal research support for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

However, I have added to the Case Law page on my legal research and writing website a chart of links for accessing Canadian court dockets (and for those jurisdictions who do not provide access, I provide a link to contact the court registry).

One could argue that there may be perversion of justice in changing a rule to a defendant's detriment, when the defendant could have reasonably relied on it (highly unlikely here, but possible in my hypothetical about the lovers who let out their sexual frustrations in doing legal research about when they can lawfully have sex).

Those who rely «almost entirely (or entirely)» on Canlii for primary sources may depend on paper sources for historic content — a perusal of legal research with pinpoint citations to «page number (s)» would suggest such is the case because often content on the commercial databases don't include the page numbers from the original print text from which they were reproduced.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

At Alberta Law Libraries, we are legal information experts who can help you find resources and show you how to do legal research.

No doubt about it; we are teaching a generation of students who have done no significant research (of any kind) in print.57 Because other online research seems so easy, they generally underestimate the effort involved in conducting thorough legal research.

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

My response until now has been that I really don't know of anyone who does any substantive legal research for the public.

Good piece in law.com on The Many Hats of a Law Librarian by Tricia Kasting, who I only knew because of her federal statutory research pathfinder, and her piece on how the Millennial generation of law students does legal research differently... [more]

law schools pad their employment figures — 96 % employed — by counting as «employed» any job at all, legal or non-legal, including part time jobs, including unemployed graduates hired by the school as research assistants (or by excluding unemployed graduates «not currently seeking» a job, or by excluding graduates who do not supply employment information).

Now the bulk of legal research training is done by the WESTLAW and LEXIS representatives who meet our first year students at the door.

For example, legal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid clegal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid clegal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid cLegal Aid cases.

I don't want to seem too promotional of any single vendor of legal research products since I use all of them and obtain no financial reward for my recommendations, but I continue to be amazed by HeinOnline, who recently announced they have over 1,100 law journals participating in their online collection (requires a subscription, for a fee).

It has been said that lawyers do not necessarily know the law better than other people; rather they only know where to find it.10 A lawyer who does not know how to perform legal research is lacking a defining characteristic of the profession.

In the electronic world and dealing with folks who don't have knowledge of legislation nor legal research, they will easily just inform others that an online audit trail of electronic user activity and multiple versions, is good enough.

It provides centralized legal research and document drafting and related services to lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

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.

In concept, it is a great idea for lawyers to have a place where they can share documents and research, discuss legal issues, and network with others who have shared interests, without having to worry about the ethical landmines of doing that sort of stuff in a public - facing site.

LTN quotes Daniel Katz, an assistant professor at Michigan State University College of Law, who has done research on statistics and legal data.

The Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) provides investigative and legal research services to attorneys representing inmates who both the attorneys and the Project have good reason to believe did not commit the crimes for which they were convicted.

You do some legal research, and you come across an arresting sentence in a law review from a dozen years ago: «Despite the overwhelmingly large number of people who die from hospital - acquired infections each year, there are virtually no instances of successful litigation against doctors or hospitals.»

In Seattle there are many lawyers who, for whatever reason, do not wish to work full time and so contract out their legal research services for anywhere from $ 30 to $ 70.

I guess the Globe reporter did a little original research, as the story (unattributed) concludes «A quick search of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) database of judgments suggests that Canadian judges, who tend to have a drier, more no - nonsense style, are not likely to quote Mr. Dylan.»

Is it not misleading to students new to legal research who do not understand the limited utility and relative newness of the neutral citation?

This is a nice round - up of resources for those looking to economize, especially for legal researchers who do not already have flat rate subscriptions to major online legal research services.

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When an emergency hit and I needed legal research done quickly, Lisa was the first person who came to mind.

As anyone who has ever done legal research knows, a good search eliminates noise leaving one to focus on the relevant portion of the results.

«During my association with an Indian law firm at the start of my career, I realized that I was more interested in doing work relating to legal research and drafting than practicing law,» said Prasad, 28, who has never been to the United States.

There were several reasons why tasks that required intensive reading of law migrated to her; she was really very good at it, others in the firm were not or were too busy doing other lawyering tasks, and she would give her assistance readily and discreetly to those who were in need of legal research support in the development and advancement of their own practices.

It might be fair to say that law librarians, in general, fit this description better than does the average lawyer who does not focus on legal research.

Privacy through obscurity blocks the ability of people who do not regularly do legal research — and know where to start — from finding relevant documents.

I hear from those in large law libraries that are somewhat open to the public, such as academic law libraries, that they get a number of pro se litigants — i.e. people who intend on representing themselves in court — trying to do legal research.

And it is necessary because «clerking» by law students and lawyers who are not career - oriented legal research lawyers should be considered to be an obsolete method of doing legal research, because it is the foundation of all legal advice services.

Hi Steve — of course accuracy and currency are important, and I don't know of any academic law librarian who does not try to impart this in the training the give in law school legal research sessions.

The research also found 96 % of legal firms do not even use auto attendant messaging to greet customers who call up outside of normal working hours.