Sentences with phrase «about legal research»

It talks about this legal research course on using books, but then undermines the focus by having primarily negative comments from students who have taken the course.

There is a disconnect between what students think they know about legal research and what they actually know.

Generally, as I've also found in past years, posts about legal research services are popular.

By the time I meet law students, they have had the benefit of learning about legal research in the academic setting.

Last week, I wrote about the legal research platform's rollout of a major redesign of its user interface and search experience.

In this post, I want to share a little of what I learned while teaching a keen group of first - year law students about legal research, writing and advocacy.

They are expert researchers who know about the latest legal resources and can teach you a lot about the legal research process.

It has been many years since I attended law school — while I know we had complaints about our legal research and writing courses, I don't think this was our issue.

It got me thinking about something I've noticed working in legal information: lawyers don't mean the same thing when they talk about legal research as librarians do.

One would think that this would be excellent news for those who care about legal research.

Everything that I know about legal research I learned in practice.

Most lawyers learned about legal research from law school professors, and most of those professors learned from Bob Berring, the granddaddy of legal research.

Last week, I wrote about another legal research site, Casetext, that is planning to do something similar by adding law firm client alerts distributed via JD Supra.

Slaw features in a list of nine sites where readers can find more about legal research, putting us in the same company as LLRX, Access to Justice, the Great Library, and LibraryCo.

When teaching students or lawyers about legal research on the Internet, I usually try to also explain the concept of the «deep» or «invisible» web — the large number of webpages that are not indexed by major search engines.

(I had a lengthy talk with Brink this morning and plan to write more here about the legal research services his libary offers.)

My day - one poll of the students generally suggests some feel uncertainty about their legal research and writing skills as they prepare to enter the profession, and they take the course almost as «remedial legal research and writing,» to borrow the words of a colleague.

Not long after, Genie launched The Virtual Chase, a site devoted to teaching legal professionals about legal research — particularly online legal research.

I mostly tweet about legal research or legal news so I do #legalnews #lawnews #legalresearch #lawresearch but that takes up a lot of room so then I don't have as much room for the actual tweet.

As Tom Bruce said, «We tend to think about legal research taking place in multibillion - dollar cases, but often it's a dry cleaner trying to figure out how to stock chemicals.»

I keep hearing about the legal research habits of law students and newer lawyers: they start with Google and often go no further.

This seems to be an underlying idea in some of the comments that have come up from Michael Line's post about the legal research training tools being developed in B.C. earlier this week.

I have written books, made cassette tapes, video tapes and DVDs about legal research.

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.

Last week I posted about Legal Research Technology Skills.

The site contains links to all of the major URLs listed in the book (and more) as well as providing basic information about legal research and writing.

However, as legal sources have become digitized and migrated online, it is now impossible to talk about legal research from a purely bibliographic perspective.

First year students devote an entire year to learning about legal research and writing.

I plan to blog my way through this experience as a way of reflecting upon and retaining what I'm learning — about legal research, writing and drafting, oral and written advocacy and what thinking like a lawyer means in an increasingly dynamic legal profession.

As I listened to Lincoln explain his reasoning, I couldn't help but think about legal research.

It's about legal research.

Our library orientation session starts with an associate talking about legal research and writing memos, including some of the most common pitfalls.

I doubt Steven Spielberg thought anyone watching Lincoln would think about legal research, but that's what happened to me.

Sandy Gallant - Jones: And today, we are talking about legal research, one of your favorite classes, right Chris?

It has been so much fun talking with you both about legal research and about the benefits of the Library of Congress.

For more than 20 years, Carole Levitt has been thinking about legal research — how it works, how it might be better — and teaching others how to use the internet effectively in the practice of law.

Since this is after all a site about legal research, let me report that it does not appear that any Canadian court has taken judicial notice of Timbits, although the item is mentioned in R. v. Chan, 2005 ABQB 615 (CanLII).