With all the time that technology has saved them, the future GC is able to sit down and spend the rest of
the day doing legal research that is actually enjoyable, using software tools to find the most relevant cases and arguments.
Not exact matches
«It is
legal to
do this for
research purposes on early human embryos in the UK with a licence from the HFEA, but the 14
day limit applies and it would be illegal to implant the embryos into a woman for further development.
Prof. Bainbridge says that as far as he can tell, these
days law schools hiring professors focus almost solely on qualifications that
do not have a «goddamn thing to
do with the practice of law» such as «having a PhD» or «having multiple publications, even if they demonstrate the author's utter lack of doctrinal knowledge or inability to
do basic
legal research.»
In fact, you don't even need a citation to retrieve a published case these
days.33 And beyond the obvious benefits of ease and convenience, this is excellent news for
legal research professors; we no longer need to teach the nuts and bolts of navigating arcane
legal sources.
My next door neighbour at Heenan Blaikie, Ryan Teschner lent me this morning a history of the Queen's Law School at 50 — «Let Right Be
Done»: A History of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University by Professor Mark D. Walters I was very pleased to see 3 pages about the early
days of computerized
legal research in Common Law Canada, which all started at KingstonThe story of Datum / Soquij is for another
day..
Nika Kabiri: It is, and on top of that, even if you don't have a
legal issue... The American Psychological Association
does research on stress on a regular basis, and they found that eight out of 10 people, whether they have a
legal issue or not, eight out of 10 people experience moderate stress every
day, so add that to a
legal issue and then the fact that they actually are dealing with the issue.
In what I think is the second installment of my race to catch all of you up with what I've been
doing (I discussed law firm business licenses a couple of
days ago), I'm here to talk today about online
legal research providers — in particular, my journey to deciding on what to
do for my
legal research needs.
Remember to serve the brief at a minimum five
days before the mediation so that the mediator will have time to review the brief, conduct any
legal research they may need and possibly
do a pre-mediation conference call.
For example, many
legal research jobs don't require students to work on site every
day.