Sentences with phrase «also doing legal research»

It worked for a while; she spent three months in early 2012 training at high altitude in Kenya, running alongside the world's best, while also doing legal research and writing briefs on her laptop, and e-mailing the work back to Chattanooga.

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Also, the typical reason medical pot and recreational pot are tied together has more to do with making it fully legal will jump - start the medical research aspects of it.

But that didn't stop Culberson from saying he would bolster several programs within the subcommittee's purview — not just NSF's research account, but also the aeronautics program at NASA, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Sea Grant program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The study also recommends companies should use IP lawyers «efficiently and strategically,» and that, while it is essential to use lawyers for all legal tasks, it advises companies to do their own research on the IP process and prepare documentation required by counsel.

The functions that such apps perform also vary widely: apps can help individuals find a lawyer, create their own legal documents, gather evidence against authorities (for example, record police encounters or track heating violations by landlords), do their own legal research or better understand court or tribunal processes.

But this may also explain why the legal research practice area doesn't have the prominence some may wish it had within the legal profession.

We had computer - assisted legal research before lots of people had computer - assisted anything, so I sort of thought it was something we'd mastered, but we also don't have cool AI doing it enough I guess.

Once you've done so, not only will you be able to conduct legal research from your mobile device right from court, you'll also be able to access your client files and documents, contact information, and more!

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

I've also found that the only way to get better at legal research is to do more of it.

In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing, as well as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.

During this time I also was employed as an independent contractor doing legal research and writing legal opinions.

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?

Machine learning and data analytics are not only used to do legal research, but also assist in legal decision - making and the prediction of legal cases.

Also on the topic of researching legislation: it doesn't appear that SLAW has previously mentioned Eric Appleby's free online Legal Research Guide to Statutes 2007 (PDF, 44 pages)(Eric is the founder of Maritime Law Book; Gary Rodrigues posted here last year on SLAW about Eric).

Although Washington appellate opinions were also available through free legal research sites, the court's announcement said that the free sites «didn't have fully updated and reliably accurate versions of all opinions.»

Within this 8.5 hours a lawyer is supposed to get a detailed interview with you and your witnesses about your case, make all the court appearances needed, do all the legal research required, prepare you to potentially testify, prepare for the actual trial itself which involves preparing cross examinations for police officers etc, and also do the actual trial itself!

The legal memorandum also serves as record of the research done for a given legal question.

Also, it's generally much easier to ask a colleague your legal question instead of always having to do the legal research from scratch.

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.

If you're not an expert researcher or if you don't have access to a large law library with professional foreign and international law librarians, the key to productive legal research is the «Legal Research Guide,» most of which are created by those professional and expert law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign law deglegal research is the «Legal Research Guide,» most of which are created by those professional and expert law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign law research is the «Legal Research Guide,» most of which are created by those professional and expert law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign law degLegal Research Guide,» most of which are created by those professional and expert law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign law Research Guide,» most of which are created by those professional and expert law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign law degrees.

Also, if the situation has unique issues, the lawyer will do legal research to prepare for those that need to address at trial.

Also, for the record, since nobody does any legal research in this thread, PA Grand Juries are ex parte North Huntingdon Tp.

You could also eliminate the costs of doing legal research by creating a public domain research service that will put Lexis - Nexis out of business, which would cut costs dramatically for both law schools and practicing lawyers.

While computers are not perfect in doing legal research, artificial intelligence has developed thanks to the work ROSS has done, to the point where a lot of the work can be done much more productively — and that's productively for lawyers, students and law clerks — but also for their clients.

had there been a defence lawyer rules say they cant hide case law they know about -LCB- they would discover more if defending -RCB- in hope that we don't discover it = unethical.type in» stare decisis and techniques of legal reasoning» Which also says it is unethical and intellectually dishonest for a judge to ignore case law that stands in the way of his decision = the defence wont give case law and the judge wont do defence lawyer research - so case law / evidence will not be heard and will not be there for a SRL to use / defend our case.

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.

Despite that, there are also recent decisions where courts do allow recovery of online legal research costs (by the winning party against the losing party or by a law firm against their client) where the research was necessary and the cost reasonable and the search done for that specific client on a specific issue.

Jim is very interested in teaching those of us in the legal research / law librarianship community, so I expect he is not just doing this for his students but also for the larger community.

Research also showed that Ontarians want to learn more about what to do when they need legal help, how to find it — and to better understand the services that lawyers and paralegals provide.

Besides offering the features attorneys have come to demand from case management software, such as time tracking, matter management, and to - do lists, Quicklegal also offers access to leads, malpractice insurance, and legal research.

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.

Clerks, meanwhile, may do some of those more menial tasks, but are usually also responsible for legal research, brief writing, and sometimes even client interface.

History or English degrees also develop useful research skills for legal practice: «Traditionally, a history degree is seen as being in sync with law because of the research skills you develop,» says Samantha Hope, graduate recruitment manager at Shoosmiths, «but we don't have a preference of degree subject.»

The job responsibilities of an individual working in entry level legal position is to maintaining records of cases, doing legal clerical work, attending court sessions and also doing research in order to help the lawyer.

Also, do some background research on the organizations which interest you: You don't want to be hired only to discover tax or legal issues are looming.