Sentences with phrase «associates doing legal research»

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That approach to legal reasoning is a classic rookie mistake that gets a lot of young associate attorneys doing legal research into trouble by overstating the confidence that they should have in their conclusions when there is no case right on point addressing a situation.

Imagine a new kind of legal research system that can gather much of the information you need to do your job — a digital associate, if you will.

Smaller firms don't have the manpower to keep associates locked away in back rooms doing legal research.

Effective legal research requires deep focus and concentration yet... «the myth of cost effective research» requires an associate to engage half of their attention on a collateral and competing analysis of factors which have nothing to do with the substance of the law.

Gillian Calder is an associate professor of law teaching constitutional law and family law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law and doing research on critical legal pedagogy.

Partly this is divided by area of practice: I have observed few solicitors doing much legal research using commentary, though junior associates and articling students do more.

Well, just like when I did basic legal research (as a naive young associate), I scanned the search results to see if they had any useful verbiage, or otherwise provided helpful clues.

I think there's always going to be room for them maybe in the secondary market or in workflow or things like that, but I do think that there is that — in the same way that Starbucks made coffee a lot more accessible to people and created a lot more coffee drinkers and made the experience more enjoyable and really kind of raised the floor for coffee in America, I think there's room for a company like Fastcase to raise the floor for everybody to make legal research something that isn't intimidating, that partners can do and young associates can do and law students can do in a compelling, powerful way and without being afraid.