Sentences with phrase «as research lawyers»

And, finally, depending on the answers here, is there more that specialized legal researchers (such as research lawyers and law librarians) can or should do?

It might take her twice as long as a research lawyer, but she will cost less than half per hour.

Although my current work focuses more on knowledge and information management, I have in the past worked more formally as a research lawyer and I currently work with and know many others who work as research lawyers.

Not exact matches

Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

In other words, these foreign affiliates are almost like another Canadian economy out there, supporting jobs in Canada in areas such as research and development, engineering, design and marketing, not to mention lawyers, accountants, and executives who manage the operation from home.

Recognized by clients and lawyers alike for his superior level of trial work, Cohen has been listed for the past three years as a Southern California «Super Lawyer» as chosen by his peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics magazine.

I invented Rachel's Remedy to make moist - heat / cooling relief hands free and easy for breastfeeding moms, but before I could leave my job as a lawyer and dedicate my life to this company, I had to do my research.

«Our concern is that [Harris] can't devote her full - time attention to her job as deputy mayor,» said Gene Russianoff, a senior lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But a lawyer for the development corporations stated in a response to a request for records that Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road «utilize the procurement policies promulgated by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York as guidelines.»

Research on men in different occupations has shown how those occupations where their a real contest going on, or hard physical work, such as the military, trial lawyers, and construction workers experience higher testosterone levels than men in more sedate occupations.

The research comes as Future First launches Back to School Week between October 13th and 17th in state schools across the country during which celebrities and every day heroes — from doctors and lawyers to plumbers and caterers — will return to their former state school to talk to the current generation about their career paths and the skills necessary to succeed in work.

What College Professors Can Learn From Alan Alda TIME, 1/8/15» «Those who are involved in funding academic research are really keen to see that it's going to lead to something practical,» says James Ryan, the education school's dean, who was trained not as an academic but as a lawyer.

Bacow is a lawyer and economist whose research focuses on environmental policy, and is internationally recognized as an expert on non-adjudicatory approaches to the resolution of environmental disputes.

The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

For all the small investment advisers out there who face similar problems, use this as a springboard in your discussions with your lawyers, or for your own research if you don't employ a lawyer.

Another is Bill Hare, a Greenpeace lawyer and its Campaign Director, who frequently misrepresents himself as a «scientist» and speaks at the Potsdam Institute, Germany's main global warming research center.

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.

Interestingly, Fastcase was already available to Massachusetts lawyers through the Social Law Library, a quasi-public law library that provides research services to lawyers throughout Massachusetts who sign up as dues - paying members.

ROSS was used here as a tool to assist lawyers in research, not to perform research in their place.

It describes itself not as a legal research site, but as a platform for «open online legal argument» designed for both law students and practicing lawyers.

I don't intend to discuss these cases in this column, here I will write about the development of the deep research skills needed by professional researchers such as lawyers and law librarians to provide the enhanced expertise needed to be paid professionally for this work.

As new research reveals lawyers are finding their jobs more stressful than ever, Georgina Stanley asks whether law firms are doing enough to combat work - based anxiety and other mental health issues Statistics on mental illness speak for themselves.

Because we understand the demands placed on our attorney clients, FindLaw has developed business development instruments specifically for law firms (such as ones those that improve the intake process), fine - crafted a suite of marketing products that free up lawyers to actually practice law and amassed a body of research and scholarship that we use to help law firms stay contemporary and competitive.

Good legal research is as much the product of one's experience as a lawyer, as it is of one's training and talent, if not more so.

The two major U.S. legal research companies, West and LexisNexis, both separately announced new initiatives and new Web sites to help laid off lawyers as they make the transition to new jobs.

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

New research shows that this generation of aspiring lawyers see websites as their preferred careers influencer.

As barristers return to man the metaphorical barricades to protest the latest round of legal aid cuts and the solicitors» professional body gloomily predict «extinction» for its ageing members (according to Law Society research, the average age of duty solicitors is 47 years), few lawyers would take issue with the oft - repeated assertion in the legal Twittersphere: #TheLawIsBroken.

I developed these methods as part of the technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare model).

Beyond law schools, mental health issues in the legal profession is something that is increasingly addressed: «But research suggests that [lawyers] are at much higher risk of depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues than people in the broader population — and may even be more susceptible than those in other high - stress professions, such as medicine.»

Congratulations, based on our extensive research and review you have been named as a top ranked / elite / awesome lawyer in your practice area and will appear in our print / online publication.

His firm had a few designated research lawyers, whom he described as very knowledgeable and productive:

The legal research and information site Justia this week added peer - based lawyer ratings and reviews as part of the Justia Lawyer Directory.

But as more and more online services are available to lawyers, especially individually - subscribed and practice - focussed services such as Lexis's Practice Advisor and Westlaw's «Source» products, courthouse libraries could provide a local venue for research - oriented seminars provided by either or both the librarian and the law publishers themselves.

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

Using IBM's Watson — the computer most famous for winning Jeopardy! In 2011 — as their platform, they launched ROSS Intelligence, an AI system that they say can answer lawyers» natural - language legal - research questions, such as, «Can a bankrupt company still conduct business?»

JD Supra: the newest entrant into the field of law firm content distribution is JD Supra, which intends to serve as a resource for the media to find lawyers with a proven track record and experience in legal issues they are researching.

Whether paid $ 50K or $ 300K (using Peter's examples), the staffing budget gets real big real fast as one starts to wonder just how many lawyers it would take to write research memos for the entire profession.

In England and Wales, the CMA Report provides important insight but the ongoing research capacity of the Legal Services Board is important as is the fact that this research is not just from the lawyers» perspective.

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since 2002.

The myriad of the Rules of Court and the flood of Forms dominate the cycle of all lawyers and Judges, and this is the toughest area for SRL»S to navigate and prepare because they have jobs and do not have the luxury of unlimited resources such as; a) Client Money b) Office supplies c) Secretaries d) Legal Assistants e) The latest in research tools at their disposal.

For instance, [one of the firm's research lawyer's] billable rate was three times mine [as a Summer Student].

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.»

Mosten suggests that the limited scope lawyer may research, draft, or negotiate, potentially «convert [ing] to full representation as the attorney of record in court appearances or continue coaching pro se litigants how to do it on their own.»

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.

Which, as Sheppard observes, «leaves both lawyers and research companies fumbling in the dark: Lawyers don't have a complete picture of what is happening, and research companies are relying on the lawyers to teach their machines.lawyers and research companies fumbling in the dark: Lawyers don't have a complete picture of what is happening, and research companies are relying on the lawyers to teach their machines.Lawyers don't have a complete picture of what is happening, and research companies are relying on the lawyers to teach their machines.lawyers to teach their machines.»

While what follows might not make much sense, according to recent research commissioned by FindLaw, it's something that lawyers need to be aware of, and act upon: When considering an attorney, most consumers hold interpersonal and emotional factors just as highly as degrees and experience.

««I'm a bankruptcy lawyer with 20 years of experience and if I spent the time and had done my own research, ROSS's responses would be about the same as I could do.

The report details significant contributions to mesothelioma research made by some such attorneys, as well as some asbestos lawyers sending «elaborate gift baskets» to doctors, providing tickets to «professional sporting events,» or offering «paid work as expert witnesses.»