Sentences with phrase «computerized legal research tools»

While I believe that both factors — the informality of e-mail and lack of quality teaching — have contributed to the decline of legal writing skills today, I think the main problem is the easy availability of low - cost, computerized legal research tools.

A lawyer working on an unlimited budget at a large firm could turn to computerized legal research tools and identify Westlaw headnotes on the topic or pull up lawyer briefs from seminal cases to find a string cite of cases with parentheticals describing various fact patterns.

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The law, a discipline rooted in texts, entered the world of computerized legal research with full - text tools.