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.
Not exact matches
In arguments that lasted
about 45 minutes in a courtroom crowded with 52 spectators, the three judges zeroed in on where stem cell derivation ends and
research begins, and if the two can really be separated for
legal purposes,
as US policies under George W. Bush and Barack Obama have assumed — a distinction that the plaintiffs argue is fallacious.
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.
Perhaps, the most interesting thing
about USEssayWriters.com is that it's 100 %
legal to purchase essay papers from us, because you can use the essays
as a source of ideas for your paper,
as research material for your own essays, or
as a guide on how to format your paper following a specific citation style (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc..)
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.
Furthermore, the Climate Science
Legal Defense Fund views the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the Climatic
Research Unit documents were obtained and / or thereafter disseminated,
as well
as the repeated blogs
about them,
as providing the basis for civil actions against those who obtained and / or disseminated them and blogged
about them.
The term «junk science»,
as used in political and
legal disputes in the United States, brands an advocate's claims
about scientific data,
research, analyses
as spurious.
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.
We've talked
about how big data of
legal information or
legal research might change the way that lawyers do things, but
as I've noted, the collection of enough data for proper insights remains the main obstacle.
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-...]
«We started this blog
as a way to inform the College of Law community
about key
legal - education,
research, practice, and law - library news, including but not limited to items of particular interest to Maricopa County and Arizona.»
I'm now at
about the same point in the
legal research instruction process
as was Ms Thomas in late October; I also have had a few days to reflect on the process.
Earlier this week, I wrote
about the Minnesota State Bar Association's decision to switch back to Fastcase
as a member
legal -
research benefit, just six months after leaving Fastcase for Casemaker.
As I conducted my
research (with no computer and certainly no internet to help), I was drawn into exploring much wider ideas
about the future of the
legal industry and the forces of change that could transform it in the coming decades.
As a matter of fact, I'll be talking about Casetext at ABA Techshow tomorrow as part of a presentation on using crowdsourcing in legal researc
As a matter of fact, I'll be talking
about Casetext at ABA Techshow tomorrow
as part of a presentation on using crowdsourcing in legal researc
as part of a presentation on using crowdsourcing in
legal research.
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.»
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.
As I wrote yesterday at my LawSites blog, it is notable that this public - domain database will come
about with the cooperation of a for - profit
legal research company.
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.
Where books put concrete corners around information, electronic sources can seem to present the same information
as seamlessly connected.36 Quite often, Internet researchers care less
about the nature of the information source than they do
about its content.37 And even the fee - based
legal research providers no longer require researchers to make source selections at the outset.
As discussed in detail in Part III, today total public spending for the
Legal Services Corporation and other legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related n
Legal Services Corporation and other
legal aid, combined with charitable donations for legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related n
legal aid, combined with charitable donations for
legal aid, is about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related n
legal aid, is
about $ 3.7 billion per year, [11] whereas Professor Gillian Hadfield's
research estimates that $ 50 billion per year would be required to secure one hour of
legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related n
legal assistance for households with unmet dispute - related needs.
Next, it will consider the limitations of existing
legal research paradigms,
as well
as some new «truths»
about research in the information age.
In this section, you will find
research reports
about public
legal education issues, including such topics
as how to deliver PLE effectively and how to perform needs assessment in PLE.
Amnesty International International Secretariat
research on the human rights impact of
legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act
legal aid cuts in the UK
As part of this
research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children)
about their experiences following the
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
And observing LRN over the years, I've noticed an apparent shift from
research to compliance, which may say something
about outsourced
legal research as a business.
When I went to work for Professor Morris Cohen at Harvard Law School in 1978 to serve
as Deputy Director of the Library, he talked with me
about joining him
as co-author of How to Find the Law, the West Hornbook on
legal bibliography and
legal research that had already passed through seven editions.
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.
While this increase in recent years is to be applauded, it remains the case that a problem regularly described
as one of the greatest problems facing the
legal sector in Canada receives — on a good day —
about one thirteenth of all law - related
research funding.
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.
Generally,
as I've also found in past years, posts
about legal research services are popular.
Then,
about half way down the social media rabbit hole I was following
as part of my «blog
research», I came across this interview (thanks @karenskinner) with Alex Novarese, editor - in - Chief of
Legal Business, discussing the future of the legal industry in th
Legal Business, discussing the future of the
legal industry in th
legal industry in the UK.
City partners are generally upbeat
about the year ahead despite a dip in overall confidence levels
as the full extent of UK Government spending cuts begins to emerge, according to
Legal Week
research.
A few examples: Kathryn Stanchi has explored a number of these topics in depth, such
as her influential article that explores social science
research on persuasion
as applied to how
legal advocates should present a court with negative information
about their client orposition.21 She and Linda Berger have recently published a textbook combiningtheir interests in science and persuasion, setting themselves the ambitious goal of «unit [ing] persuasion science with rhetorical theory and the real - life practice of persuasion.»
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.
While advertising and marketing your law practice in search engines will not make it rain overnight, if you commit to thinking
about how your potential clients might use search to consume
legal information, get answers, and perform
research, you might surprise yourself
as to how successfully you can increase your firm's profile online.
This blawg «seeks to inform the Cleveland - Marshall College of Law community
about key
legal education,
research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio
as well
as faculty
research interests.»
What if you could review a dictionary of
legal terms,
research statutes of limitations, look up information
about visa types, investigate crime rates and history for specific crimes,
as well
as state and national average comparisons, get closing cost estimates, and information on square footage, home sales price, and utility prices from one iPhone app?
From my earliest days
as a professional I have taught
about how best to carry out
legal research.
Last year I made my views known to the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Foundation of Ontario, which donates funds to the law libraries in Ontario
as well
as the Minister of the Attorney General
about being denied access to the John Sopinka Law Library at the Hamilton Court House for wanting to do my own
legal research.
These days, if I have a substantive
legal research project to accomplish, I like to get to work early so that I have a few hours of quiet to focus and think
about the question,
as well
as ensure that I've chased down all the leads.
One was the seemingly neverending question of how to encourage students (or the Google generation) to use print materials (and also
as contrasted to electronic versions of print products,
as John notes) in their
research; another example was in a panel discussion among
legal publisher representatives
about the future of print.
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.
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?
If you have any doubt
about who to name
as a defendant, you may need to perform some basic factual investigation and
legal research.
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.
At the same time
as I was reviewing this article, which stresses the importance of
legal research skills for law practice, I received notiifcation from WestlaweCarswell
about their new certification programme:
Legal Realism Unpublished Decisions, Non-Citation Rules, and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 Existing
Legal Scholarship and Empirical Data A DETAILED COMPARISON OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent
as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent
as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS
ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to
Legal Research Diversity in
Research Diversity in Framing.
The university
as the place of
legal education also brings
about opportunity for interdisciplinarity in
research and learning, and, frankly, the benefit of the resources of the broader campus.
This is my hundredth Slaw posting and rather than post on
legal information,
research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think
about slaw
as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings
about taxonomies of
legal knowledge back in June en route to India.