* Because only the coolest law students
do legal research on their phones these days, here are 11 apps to download.
That is because almost every lawyer has learned to
do legal research using an online case law system designed and structured to be used with keyword search.
Also, it's generally much easier to ask a colleague your legal question instead of always having to
do the legal research from scratch.
Attorneys are expected to perform the same duties as other legal professionals
like doing legal research, writing briefs and arguing cases in the court.
For example, a highly specialized legal research support service for all lawyers would save lawyers money because it can
do legal research more cost - efficiently than can any law firm.
It wasn't so much legal research but it was the ability to present the case to the reader without having to
go do legal research.
As anyone who has
ever done legal research knows, a good search eliminates noise leaving one to focus on the relevant portion of the results.
One of the large drawbacks
of doing legal research with Google Scholar, the search behemoth's free service to search legal opinions, was that you never knew what kind of opinion the results would yield.
It worked for a while; she spent three months in early 2012 training at high altitude in Kenya, running alongside the world's best, while
also doing legal research and writing briefs on her laptop, and e-mailing the work back to Chattanooga.
With dozens of examples demonstrating the legal concepts and thousands of citations to the law, regulations, and court cases, the reader will be thoroughly prepared to
do the legal research necessary to successfully support clients towards applying for and winning naturalization.
After spending my first two years of law
school doing legal research, reading, and writing in the classroom, I jumped at the chance to get out of the classroom and actually work as an environmental advocate.
Zimmer is well aware of the challenges ahead, and says he and his team are working with both internal and external counsel to
do the legal research needed when expanding to new markets.
«We can't continue to spread our attorneys so thin that they don't have time to read police reports, to meet with a client, to
do legal research if necessary,» he said.
One could argue that there may be perversion of justice in changing a rule to a defendant's detriment, when the defendant could have reasonably relied on it (highly unlikely here, but possible in my hypothetical about the lovers who let out their sexual frustrations in
doing legal research about when they can lawfully have sex).
Students in Toronto are already trying to put IBM's Watson to
work doing legal research, and that is surely just the tip of the iceberg.
Dan spends about 5 hours each week blogging, not including the time he
spends doing legal research that he would most likely do anyway.
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.
As a volunteer for a PBSC project, you can expect to work three to five hours a
week doing legal research and writing, assisting duty counsel at the Courts, or casework advocacy, depending on your specific project.
Sam Glover: Watson is really good at Jeopardy and now at diagnosing medical patients, but Watson, the IBM «AI» is not built to
do legal research necessarily, although the guys at Ross are working on that.
The University of Miami School of Law Library is open for use by alumni, all University of Miami students, faculty and staff, and
others doing legal research, although some restrictions are observed during exam periods.
Solicitors do not generally have rights of audience in court but there are some exceptions, they
generally do the legal research and can represent their clients in legal negotiations but then pass the case over to a barrister if it is necessary to take action in court.