Sentences with phrase «do legal research more»

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Also, the typical reason medical pot and recreational pot are tied together has more to do with making it fully legal will jump - start the medical research aspects of it.

Scientists doing dual use research — beneficial work that may be misapplied for malicious purposes in the wrong hands — need more tools to help them understand the scientific, ethical and legal issues surrounding their work, according to a AAAS - sponsored workshop report.

Alley Cat Allies, a Washington group, and several state residents filed a legal petition to challenge the policy, saying the commission used sloppy research, failed to allow sufficient time for public comment and did not consider more - humane alternatives.

Increasingly, legal research sites are seeking to do exactly this — to promote a more collaborative, crowdsourced approach to legal research.

For example, legal research could be done far more competently and cost - efficiently if provided by such a support service.

Companies listed here are trying to come up with better ways to do legal research, negotiate contracts, manage legal documents, match consumers with lawyers, search patents, manage a law office, track and bill time, and much more.

I don't know about you, but I like my legal research materials to be a little more timely than that.

As a result, it now provides much more than legal research support for lawyers in private practice who do legal aid cases.

One of the things we don't talk about much on the legal research side of things here at Slaw Tips are... [more]

But still, it is worth some more research (I am aware answers on this site should never be taken as legal advice, don't worry).

As time has passed, things have changed and, for better and worse, continue so to do, so that some of the solutions and research products and services coming onto the market are more likely to have been conceived in university computer departments rather than in legal practice or faculties of law.

For example, legal research can be much more cost - efficiently done by highly specialized, high volume legal research support services.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

Instead, it should highlight the possibilities for future empirical legal writing scholarship and offer enough of an introduction to inspire new empirical researchers.1 Even if you do not plan to conduct your own empirical research, this Article should make you a more informed consumer of empirical scholarship.

By allowing me to focus on performing your legal research and writing, you will improve your relationships with clients and the courts; you will be able to devote more attention to depositions, client consultations, and negotiations; and most important of all, you will be happier because you will have more free time to do the things you want, whether in your practice or your personal life.

2 - Will you bill me more if you have to do «extra» work; i.e., researching legal issues, writing legal memoranda, arguing motions, rejecting unacceptable offers from prosecutors and judges and making additional court appearances, or even trying the case in a jury trial.

They may have received the most press, but as for importance in the long run... all they're doing right now is making legal research more efficient.

People are obviously more sensitive to who records what they do when they are researching legal matters.

The longer I practice law, the more I realize that lots of my information gathering is not done through legal research.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

Once you've done so, not only will you be able to conduct legal research from your mobile device right from court, you'll also be able to access your client files and documents, contact information, and more!

Good piece in law.com on The Many Hats of a Law Librarian by Tricia Kasting, who I only knew because of her federal statutory research pathfinder, and her piece on how the Millennial generation of law students does legal research differently... [more]

Like, I don't... It's more like nobody did online legal research and then a decade or two later, everybody did online legal research.

There are always exceptions that more experienced users will follow, but read any blog, book or brief on legal research and the song is the same: Why spend your time blindly looking for the leading case when an esteemed (and far more learned) legal mind has already done it for you?

That means that they have more time to spend on other things such as advocacy issues that they may not be familiar with yet, and less time on the mundane legal research tasks — we've done a lot of those recently!

What I also think needs to be done, is more emphasis on legal research.

And there are many other parts of lawyers» work that can be more competently and cost - efficiently done by specialized legal research support services than general practitioners can do it.

More like gradual change — and you can still find law books in every law library that work perfectly well for doing legal research.

I've also found that the only way to get better at legal research is to do more of it.

I am updating my «Doing Legal Research in Canada» guide on LLRX.com since I believe I last updated it in 2004 and it is out - of - date (my similar guide on NYU's Globalex site is more current for now than the guide on LLRX.com).

Obviously it was designed to perpetuate the existing method of delivering legal services by making it more conveniently used — the «handcraftsman's method,» instead of a «support services method» of delivering legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal services by making it more conveniently used — the «handcraftsman's method,» instead of a «support services method» of delivering legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-RRB-.

With the growing trend of fixed fee pricing, alternative fee arrangements, and other pre-arranged cost structures for legal work, it is more important than ever for a researcher to know several things that don't relate to the problem their research is attempting to answer:...

More generally, even in the absence of sovereign immunity considerations, the CDC And NIH do not have any legal duty to prioritize one area of research or another.

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.

Legal Realism Unpublished Decisions, Non-Citation Rules, and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 Existing Legal Scholarship and Empirical Data A DETAILED COMPARISON OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Research Diversity in Framing.

There are two or more generations involved in this problematic scenario: First the Gen Y's; they may not fully appreciate what a library can do for them; and the Baby Boomers, who have forgotten what they knew about legal research best practices and to some extent have been lulled into believing everything is free on the Internet.

Slaw readers are more aware than the average legal professional about the roles of existing major legal information suppliers (let's call them Dominos and Pizza Hut) and the efforts of upstarts to do law differently and offer tailored solutions to legal research needs.

Some lawyers retire in order to do other things, but many lawyers will retire because the practice of law isn't much fun anymore (e.g. legal research has become no «more than a google box on top of a legal database.»

12 Shaun's article introduces us to the three empirical research strategies and how to apply those strategies to the study of legal writing, provides advice to new empirical researchers, and concludes with a bibliography containing a list of general resources on empirical research, as well a list of the legal writing empirical studies that have been done.13 Whether you wish to embark on a journey and write scholarship containing empirical research or not, as Shaun states in the introductory paragraph, «this Article should make you a more informed consumer of empirical scholarship.»

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.

No lawyer agreed to do this and the more research I did, the less helpful I felt it would be, even though I desperately needed legal advice.

The goal is to have human lawyers, be able to do more than humanly possible, and so the first area that we started it was within legal research and so using ROSS, lawyers can ask their questions in the same way they would ask a human colleague walking down the hall and asking them their questions and instead of getting back thousands of links to cases which may or may not actually help you, ROSS surfaces the exact passages of law that you need to do your job.

As automation begins to nip at the heels of that work, LPOs are wisely moving up the value and risk chain and doing more substantive work, such as legal research, compliance projects, and, of course, contract review.

While computers are not perfect in doing legal research, artificial intelligence has developed thanks to the work ROSS has done, to the point where a lot of the work can be done much more productively — and that's productively for lawyers, students and law clerks — but also for their clients.

had there been a defence lawyer rules say they cant hide case law they know about -LCB- they would discover more if defending -RCB- in hope that we don't discover it = unethical.type in» stare decisis and techniques of legal reasoning» Which also says it is unethical and intellectually dishonest for a judge to ignore case law that stands in the way of his decision = the defence wont give case law and the judge wont do defence lawyer research - so case law / evidence will not be heard and will not be there for a SRL to use / defend our case.

Making the best available legal research free to all will reduce the overall demand for attorneys — more people will be able to do their own research and represent themselves.

In the let - them - eat - cake economy of legal research, the LII is one way to make sure we get more than just crumbs, so please do your part to keep it healthy.

I guess the Globe reporter did a little original research, as the story (unattributed) concludes «A quick search of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) database of judgments suggests that Canadian judges, who tend to have a drier, more no - nonsense style, are not likely to quote Mr. Dylan.»

«During my association with an Indian law firm at the start of my career, I realized that I was more interested in doing work relating to legal research and drafting than practicing law,»

According to the recent legislative summary [PDF] from the Legal and Legislative Affairs Division Parliamentary Information and Research Service, the aim seems more to acknowledge and «respect» the civil law tradition than it does to correct terminology that has been... [more]