Without intending to equate Indian - trained lawyers with bots in respect of Canadian legal research, I found the article to offer something of a parallel to the discussion about the experience and insight to be offered
by research lawyers, e.g. in this quote:
This popular textbook
by research lawyer Rosemary Bocska and Toronto lawyer and frequent REM contributor Martin Rumack is now in its fourth edition.
Not exact matches
You can cut costs
by doing preliminary
research yourself, but before setting up any benefits plan, consult a
lawyer or a benefits consultant.
Mueller has also recruited James Quarles, who specialized in campaign - finance
research for the Watergate task force, according to Wired; Michael Dreeben, considered
by some to be «the best criminal appellate
lawyer in America»; and Aaron Zebley, a former senior counselor in the DOJ's National Security Division specializing in cybersecurity.
And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic
research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay
lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA
by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).
Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk
by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market
research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a
lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?
Glass Lewis» expanded international
research teams are headed mainly
by foreign - born, native speakers, most of whom were
lawyers or bankers in the markets covered
by Glass Lewis» new
research.
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.
At the root of baby courts» success and effectiveness are judges informed
by the latest
research in attachment and attachment trauma who then guide the
lawyers, therapists, court coordinators and child representatives toward the goal of keeping the child safe and bringing the family together again.
But in the decades since the Syracuse Housing Authority was created in 1935, that precise schedule was lost and board appointments began to overlap, said Tom Carnrike, a city
lawyer asked
by Miner to
research the matter.
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.»
Mr. Silver, a personal injury
lawyer by trade, also allegedly funneled state money to a doctor's
research center in exchange for asbestos suit referrals.
The tech transfer internship program at the University of Michigan is run
by Elaine Brock, the director of the Medical School's Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate
Research, a
lawyer who was also trained in health services administration; and assistant director Maria Sippola - Thiele, a former National Cancer Institute postdoc who subsequently got her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Yesterday, the same day an appeals court questioned
lawyers about the case, the government filed documents in a lower court arguing that the lawsuit brought
by two researchers who oppose human embryonic stem cell (hESC)
research should be thrown out.
Although a clause in the law that funds NIH prevents the agency from funding
research that would harm or destroy an embryo, a
lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled in 1999 that because stem cells — which can grow ad infinitum in culture — are not themselves embryos, the NIH could fund work with cells that were derived
by privately funded researchers or researchers overseas.
In a
research article, Flett and his co-authors Professor Paul Hewitt of the University of British Columbia and Professor Marnin Heisel of Western University note that physicians,
lawyers and architects, whose occupations emphasize on precision, and also those in leadership roles are at higher risk for perfectionism - related suicide, citing the recent cases of prominent perfectionists who died
by suicide.
By the way, they say in France a good breast FindLaw provides New York Legal
Research for
lawyers, attorneys, and corporate counsel.
Kits with lap - shoulder belts to replace the rear - seat lap belts in older cars are being offered
by Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi and Toyota.However, many dealers do not have the kits in stock and prices vary considerably from dealer to dealer, according to the Institute for Injury Reduction, a
research organization of product liability
lawyers in Dunkirk, Md.An institute survey of 30 dealers around the nation in June found that none had the kits in stock, and 21 of them said the kits did not exist.
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.
And some data are published, but scientists»
research papers are screened
by company
lawyers before they are submitted for publication.
Mauro covers
research by Richard Lazarus, who found that an increasing percentage of cases brought to the court come from «repeat practitioners,» i.e.,
lawyers with multiple appearances before the court.
Senior
lawyer hiring
by international law firms in London fell last year for the first time since the financial crisis, according to
research carried out
by Legal Week.
In our Office's experience from past investigations, there is a difference between having information available to those who explicitly seek it out directly from source websites for specific purposes (for example, a
lawyer doing jurisprudential
research in CanLII or a journalist seeking out past articles on a given issue), and, the same information being «stumbled upon» or «fished out»
by a snooping friend, colleague, neighbor or other acquaintance through a simple query search
by an individual's name.
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.
What Self — Represented Litigants (Actually) Want
by Sarah Burton, a
lawyer with the Alberta Civil Liberties
Research Centre in Calgary: «Countless reports, working groups, and studies have asked this question, and reached diverse and creative conclusions.
In the support - services method, legal
research is given to
lawyers who are specialists in doing legal
research, accompanied
by sophisticated in - house databases
by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future
research projects.
Thousands of these small programs are being used
by lawyers, and so constitute a marvellous «
research lab» of what actually works well.
Lawyers are still left confused
by pensions with more than half not understanding their key features, and almost three quarters (72 %) not knowing how much to save each month, according to new
research by Wesleyan the specialist financial mutual.
The survey commissioned
by Robert Half Legal and conducted
by an independent
research firm, surveyed 150
lawyers among the largest law firms and corporations in Canada.
We investigate every report of padded resumes (and believe me we get many), and we also have a data team led
by two experienced
lawyers that
researches every piece of unrecognized
lawyer - generated resume data to ensure that it is scored appropriately.
Here in Manitoba, we have opted for a core group of experienced staff
research lawyers, supplemented
by third year law students who clerk with the Court for law school credit.
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.
Considerable and sophisticated library and
research services continue to be provided to the
lawyers in every province, primarily
by email and phone from a central «resource» library (usually the provincial law association's own library), with a network of better - resourced regional law libraries and then the local county libraries.
Free forever, which would include
research of state and federal law and the ability to read articles and analysis contributed to the site
by lawyers, law firms and legal academics.
Ninety percent (55 out of 62) of newly qualified
lawyers (NQs) at the UK's top firms in Hong Kong were offered jobs this September, all of whom accepted, according to
research by Legal Week.
In total 672 NQs took up roles at the top 20 firms this year, a drop of 6.3 % on the autumn 2012 qualifying round, in which 717
lawyers were recruited, according to
research by Legal Week.
Besides these
research sites, there are the corpses of so many legal networking sites that died primarily because of the lack of one essential ingredient: participation
by lawyers.
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.
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.
Needed are career - oriented experienced legal
research lawyers, specialized in each area of the practice of law, working in a national legal
research unit serving all
lawyers and judges in Canada — a national service provided
by an upgraded CanLII.
Effectiveness may be debated (I think that clearly depends on the
research and writing talent of the ghostwriter, the oversight of the attributed author, and the objective of the blog)-- but unethical??? I strongly beg to differ, and instead submit that ghostwriting
lawyer blog posts is nothing more than a legitimate new twist on a time - honored tradition in the legal profession (mostly driven
by the practical need to efficiently manage heavy workloads
by delegating).
And for those
lawyers simply experiencing boredom, experts advise that they seek out work they enjoy, either
by making court appearances or doing more writing and
research on the job, or taking up an exciting hobby — like skydiving — outside of work.
On the last point consider data gathered
by my colleague Deanne Sowter for
research that she and I are doing on family law
lawyers and practice.
Lexis Advance, its next - generation
research platform launched in December 2011, is cited
by only 5 percent of
lawyers.
Some of the same attitudes are evident in the
research on lawyers» and judges» perceptions done by Nicholas Bala and Rachel Birnbaum in 2012 and by the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family
research on
lawyers» and judges» perceptions done
by Nicholas Bala and Rachel Birnbaum in 2012 and
by the Canadian
Research Institute for Law and the Family
Research Institute for Law and the Family in 2013.
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.
According to
research on our lunch habits
by flexible office and workspace platform Workthere, the average
lawyer take less than half an hour for lunch.
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.
Law firms receiving this designation had an impressive overall performance in our
research and are receiving the first award of this kind
by U.S.News and Best
Lawyers ®.
Discussions on artificial intelligence and law seek to find the diminishing demarcation between the human - only part of
lawyering (multi-disciplinary integration, especially regarding strategy; «reading» the client; emotional intelligence) and those
lawyering skills more efficiently accomplished
by artificial intelligence (legal pattern recognition
research for document and contract review).