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.
Purely coincidentally, a similar thought arose this morning in an internal planning meeting
about our legal research and writing instruction this fall.
Our library orientation session starts with an associate talking
about legal research and writing memos, including some of the most common pitfalls.
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.
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 exact matches
The goal of the blog is to
write about legal news, new court decisions, current news,
legal trends as well as news
and information
about BLS Law Library materials
and events,
legal writing and research,
and online
legal resources.
Ideal candidates will have strong
writing and analytical skills, the ability to work within tight deadlines on multiple projects simultaneously, exceptional
legal research skills,
and a desire to learn
about the nation's transportation industry.
The goal of the blog is to
write about legal news, new court decisions, current news,
legal trends as well as news
and information
about BLS Law Library materials
and events,
legal writing and research,
and online
legal resources.
Two years ago, I
wrote a post titled, In Litigation
and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law
and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets
and applying analytics to reveal insights
about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.
Using the confluence of Education Week
and the start date of our law firm's summer students, I am choosing to
write about some upcoming training sessions for law students
and those who ensure law students are office ready vis - a-vis
legal research.
Last week, I
wrote about the
legal research platform's rollout of a major redesign of its user interface
and search experience.
Think
about how
legal issues
and technology are changing
and their near - future implications
and the types of things new grads typically ought to be able to do for employers: discovery / e-discovery, planning
and writing research memos
and legal analysis, noting up case law, relevant note taking
and client interview techniques / etiquette.
Every
legal researcher has come across the phrase in a judicial opinion, «It is well settled that...,» or, «It is axiomatic that...» In 2014, I
wrote about a prototype
legal research website that mined opinions for instances of these phrases
and made them searchable as a way of helping researchers find statements of -LSB-...]
I also
wrote recently
about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced
research site at which users post
legal issues to be «argued»
and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.
In addition to advising our clients
about their online brand positioning
and strategy, Jordan works incredibly hard
researching and writing about the changing
legal profession.
I
wrote not long ago
about Casetext, a new
legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references
and annotations.
I've
written both here
and for the ABA Journal
about Casetext, a free
legal research platform that uses crowdsourcing to add annotations
and descriptions to cases.
The letter expressed concern that the blog post in question sent «a message that
legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable
and thoughtful insight we have to offer
about students seeking to transfer to Yale,
and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»
I
wrote previously
about CuroLegal's development of a site for the New York State Bar Association, LawHUB, designed to streamline member access to all of its
legal content,
research,
and practice management tools.
The week features a mix of reflective pieces on the nature of
legal research and writing and the teaching
and learning of the same in
legal education,
and substantive posts students
wrote about their major memo
legal research.
For «niche» blogs covering specialized areas of the law that aim primarily to, say, educate readers
about new court decisions on a relevant topic, I don't see why a ghostwriter with a strong
legal research and writing background can't do that effectively for a lawyer simply too busy to do all the spadework.
In October 2010, I
wrote about the roll - out of Lexis Advance for Solos, the flat - rate
legal research platform targeted at one -
and two - lawyer firms.
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.
After all, throughout undergraduate school —
and perhaps even during masters» programs — that's the mindset: get «enough» sources to
write a paper; then
write «enough» pages to meet the minimum.50 Of course, experienced lawyers know that
legal research isn't
about getting some finite number of cases.
In your
legal writing class during the week of [date], you will be observing a simulated mediation of the problem you
wrote about for your closed
and research memo assignments.
Maryland's curriculum underwent an extensive review in 1999 — 2000,
and significant changes to the
writing program came
about in the resulting curricular reform of 2000.19 The new curriculum increased the number of credits devoted to required
legal writing and research classes, particularly in the first semester.
I
write about some emerging innovators in this area, such as Ravel, a
legal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the
legal research site that presents search results visually,
and Stanford's Program for
Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the
Legal Technology
and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering
and educating
about the law.
Above all, your topic choice,
legal or otherwise, should be something you enjoy
researching and writing about, but not something you are so invested in you are willing to get into fights with strangers on the internet
about it.
Diane Edelman
and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current
and anticipated changes in
legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational
legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in
research on foreign
and international
legal issues, to incorporate the results of that
research into their
legal reasoning,
and to communicate effectively in
writing about transnational
legal questions.
Spend a lot of time thinking
about, planning,
and researching your
legal blog before you set down to start
writing.
While I have spent many hours thinking
about effective
legal research and writing training, it was not until I picked up this newsletter that I was reminded of one of the keys to learning (at least according to some of my 12 year old son's teachers).
I have in the past complained
about the abysmal lack of online access to Canadian court dockets at the same time as trying to compile a list of known links to Canadian court dockets to my Case Law
research page on my
legal research and writing website.
We're skilled in
researching and writing about complex
legal topics in a way that your website visitors will understand.
A few weeks ago, in a post here
about Fastcase's addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I
wrote that for any
legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw
and LexisNexis, «secondary content is the Holy Grail.»
In a post yesterday, In Litigation
and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I
wrote about three websites that provide data
and analytics
about judges.
I have
written books, made cassette tapes, video tapes
and DVDs
about legal research.
I also
wrote recently
about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced
research site at which users post
legal issues to be «argued»
and other users post cases -LSB-...]
Alan Kilpatrick, a law librarian with the Law Society of Saskatchewan (LSS),
wrote earlier this month on the
Legal Sourcery blog
about a new Primer to Legislative
Research Across the Provinces
and Territories published by the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (the linked version is a reprint by the LSS).
Take iPad in One Hour for Litigators, 2nd edition
and Internet
Legal Research on a Budget, for example: Jennifer Ellis says, «The thing that impresses me most
about iPad in One Hour for Litigators, (
written by Tom Mighell), is how it immediately gets down to business
and provides practical guidance on how to make the best use of an iPad.
Questions were raised
about how much students get out of blogging, especially in
writing short pieces (if that is all they do),
and Moin gave a strong defence of the merits of having students blog on a common theme over the course of several weeks as an organic, multi-faceted approach to
legal research and writing.
This webpage from Ted Tjaden's
Legal Research and Writing website provides access to information
about and links to Canadian case law, as well as links for those jurisdictions that provide online access to court dockets.
If you need
legal research and writing assistance, contact our attorneys to learn more
about how we can help you with your case.
In this Volume, the Journal's Editorial Board is pleased to present a wide variety of articles
about the pedagogy of
legal analysis,
research,
and writing, as well as a series of articles flowing from a Symposium on the Carnegie Report's impact on
legal education.
And for students, using legal issues that they have already researched or written about, reduces the number of new legal issues that students need to research, learn, and explain in a first year that is already brimming with legal topi
And for students, using
legal issues that they have already
researched or
written about, reduces the number of new
legal issues that students need to
research, learn,
and explain in a first year that is already brimming with legal topi
and explain in a first year that is already brimming with
legal topics.
109 See Hazelwood, supra note 19, at 286 — 89 (listing a number of ethical issues surrounding email that
legal writing courses could raise, including third - party access / interception, metadata, data retention, and inadvertent disclosure); Dragnich, supra note 36 at 15 (discussing how an email assignment could include lessons about confidentiality, attorney - client privilege, and «contemporary issues such as information security and removal of metadata prior to transmitting documents»); Tracy Turner, E-mail Etiquette in the Business World, 18 No. 1 Persps.: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards and replies, and CC and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that recip
legal writing courses could raise, including third - party access / interception, metadata, data retention, and inadvertent disclosure); Dragnich, supra note 36 at 15 (discussing how an email assignment could include lessons about confidentiality, attorney - client privilege, and «contemporary issues such as information security and removal of metadata prior to transmitting documents»); Tracy Turner, E-mail Etiquette in the Business World, 18 No. 1 Persps.: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards and replies, and CC and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that rec
writing courses could raise, including third - party access / interception, metadata, data retention,
and inadvertent disclosure); Dragnich, supra note 36 at 15 (discussing how an email assignment could include lessons
about confidentiality, attorney - client privilege,
and «contemporary issues such as information security
and removal of metadata prior to transmitting documents»); Tracy Turner, E-mail Etiquette in the Business World, 18 No. 1 Persps.: Teaching
Legal Research & Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards and replies, and CC and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that recip
Legal Research &
Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards and replies, and CC and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that rec
Writing 18, 19 — 20 (2009)(discussing ethical
and professional email issues, including when to use email versus other forms of communication, forwards
and replies,
and CC
and BCC use); see also Shapo, supra note 3, at 345 («If you are forwarding a message to another attorney, for example, check that there is nothing in the thread that is not for the eyes of that recipient.
YLAL co-chairs Ollie
and Rachel used their column in
Legal Action magazine to talk
about our plans to update our
research on the state of access to the profession
and YLAL committee member Gemma Blythe
wrote for Solicitors Journal
about the
Legal Aid Agency's agreement to clarify the remit of the»em barrassment clause».
Criticisms of part - time programs continued through the 1950s
and 1960s,
and some scholars questioned the viability of certain instruction in part - time programs due to concerns
about the ability of part - time programs to teach students
legal research and writing in addition to questions
about whether these programs provided adequate seminars for students.42 These critics essentially argued that evening programs were not capable of preparing students under ««modern conditions.
In the 1960s
and 1970s, the academic,
legal and media worlds began to
research and write about the Provincial Courts — both family
and criminal — identifying the importance of the work
and the difficulties the judiciary
and the courts were experiencing.
2 See the call to begin this «more fundamental inquiry» into
legal writing in the Foreword to the first volume of the journal, in Chris Rideout, Research and Writing About Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor, 1
legal writing in the Foreword to the first volume of the journal, in Chris Rideout, Research and Writing About Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor,
writing in the Foreword to the first volume of the journal, in Chris Rideout,
Research and Writing About Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor,
Writing About Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor, 1
Legal Writing: A Foreword from the Editor,
Writing: A Foreword from the Editor, 1 Leg.
We've
written at length on the MyCase blog
about using Google Scholar for
legal research and its impressive coverage of caselaw.