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.
DiTullio called Ryan after making unsuccessful attempts to reach city lawyers, who had
done the legal research used to deny the permit, according to Leahy Scott's report.
Not exact matches
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.
Does an academic's
use of
legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific
research?
But since January 2009, Ari Daniel Shapiro — he
uses his middle name to avoid confusion with the Ari Shapiro who reports for NPR on the Department of Justice and
legal affairs — has earned his living as an independent radio and multimedia producer, recording sounds, editing audio, and
doing all the things necessary to create science - related radio shows for public radio and podcasts and audio slide shows for the Web sites of
research institutions.
«When it comes to adults, we don't know long - term consequences of moderate marijuana
use in the
legal context, so that we can not say that we absolutely must intervene,» explained Marina Epstein, a UW
research scientist and lead author of the study.
They don't require the
use of embryos, so they avoid some of the ethical and
legal issues that have complicated
research with embryonic stem cells.
Your initial
research can be
done by hand,
using a felt tip marker and yellow
legal pad, or you can create a 3 - column table
using Microsoft Word.
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.
But, a basically aesthetic motivation that mostly matters to people who make up a tiny portion of the main users of the product (non-lawyers) that poses multiple threats to how statutes will be located
using legal research tools, and how it will be interpreted once located, means that reorganizing statutes is not something to be
done lightly.
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.
Does having those insights in respect of algorithms
used in
research tools mean
legal researchers will be immediately comfortable putting their faith in the tool?
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.
Moreover, modern students will better grasp the structure of
legal research if the process itself is described as fluid and flexible.81 Because they
did not grow up
using books (for
legal research, or for anything else), they have no print framework for
research to begin with.82 So, as a threshold matter, it is quite unlikely that they need to «see it first in print» in order to understand the complex web of
legal information that they confront electronically.83 And because they are accustomed to receiving an array of information contemporaneously, a linear model is unlikely to resonate sufficiently that they will internalize it as a valid means of navigating the process.84 Instead, a broad and flexible paradigm is a better fit.
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.»
And if students react to seemingly irrelevant print lessons by failing to internalize foundational concepts, then they will likely revert to old
research habits when they inevitably gravitate back to electronic sources to
do their actual
research.88 In other words, if the process doesn't carry over to the media they're actually willing to
use, then they are far less likely to actually learn the fundamental, foundational concepts that are so critical to good
legal research.89 Instead, they may achieve mere «inert» knowledge: «the inability to apply skills and concepts in situations other than those in which they were originally learned.»
Last month, Intendance, a U.K. - based digital agency that
does website design, competitor
research, and online marketing, released a report on the U.K.
legal sector's
use of Twitter.
Do we teach
research methods that encourage effective and confident
use of alternative approaches to and resources for
legal research?
As it pertains to
legal research this begs the question: When you run a search and get a giant results set back, how often
do you
use all the documents you pulled?
And speaking of advancements in
legal research, we now have the Fastcase app, which is free and, even if you don't have a Fastcase subscription, you can
use it to conduct
research using your mobile device no matter where you happen to be.
Alan Sugarman: Well,
legal research back then was still largely paper - based, and people
used books and people
used the key numbering system to
do their
research.
«I
do the majority of
legal research for the partners at [Bassi, McCune & Vreeland] and the only time I am not
using Westlaw for my
research is when our Internet connection is down,» he said by e-mail.
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.
Since 1999, the Award has been given by the Association every year to acknowledge the work that is
done by publishers to provide the Canadian
legal profession with high quality materials for
use in understanding and
researching the law.
Thus, ER for Lawyers
does not advise attorneys regarding the
use or
legal effect of the
research, recommend a specific course of action to follow or express an opinion on whether a lawyer's described or alleged conduct constitutes a violation of a state's rules of professional conduct.
Given that most students can
do the majority of their
legal research on - line from the comfort of their own homes, why
do students even bother
using a law library?
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-.
I don't want to seem too promotional of any single vendor of
legal research products since I
use all of them and obtain no financial reward for my recommendations, but I continue to be amazed by HeinOnline, who recently announced they have over 1,100 law journals participating in their online collection (requires a subscription, for a fee).
The problem really boils
done to the reality that
legal research is very much a skill, and like any skill if you don't practice and
use it, then you will lose the skill and have to relearn some of it.
Simpson's
research goes further, to also seek to understand: when a state
uses its «property rights institutions» to generate revenue, what effect
does it have upon competition from private
legal services providers?
We take the time to provide a free written case analysis to help you understand your rights and options and, in most cases,
do not charge you for expert witnesses,
legal research, mailings, economic damage reports or the
use of professional mediators and arbitrators — fees which often eat away at the earnings you receive from your case.
Machine learning and data analytics are not only
used to
do legal research, but also assist in
legal decision - making and the prediction of
legal cases.
It was hard enough twenty years ago (when I was still typing my law school papers) to imagine the impact of the Internet, the scope of online law - related information and other technologies that support
legal research (e-mail, laser printing, scanning, etc.)[although twenty years ago I
did have a Commodore computer that
used a cassette tape deck as its memory — you had to fast forward the tape to get to different spots on the memory!.]
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.
At least for me —
using IE7 — the
Legal Research Web site doesn't let me go back to the site whence I came.
I
do not like the format
used in the printable version of the «
Legal Research Process.»
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.
When I started out figuring out what I was going to
do with
legal research, I bandied about the thought of trying to
use some of the free online resources that are available out there.
• If you don't wish to meet with a student clinician, you are welcome to drop by and
use our self - help computer and library to
do online
research and work on
legal forms.
In this environment, effective firms and
legal departments will move to
use mobile technology to create productivity gains for their lawyers, deliver better client service, act on new business opportunities, acquire needed information in critical moments and save on cost — and they'll
do it because each of these actions leverages mobile technology to create maximum business value for
legal research.
Suppose, for instance, that Bob is a junior lawyer in a firm that has just started
using an AI to
do legal research and
legal briefs.
Computers may be
used to
do legal research or prepare documentation.
Reference Librarians will help in finding and
using resources but they can not
do homework,
do the actual
research, or give
legal advice.
This is not a traditional
legal research tool in the sense that a law firm lawyer would
use, but it
does allow a corporate client a technology assisted solution for compliance with a myriad of local, regional and state - level regulations that are prone to change rapidly and with little notice.
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.
Things seems to move too fast already so I don't think I would need the fast forward function too often, unless I was sifting through tedious
legal research without
using ROSS!
I
do, however, like to
use Evernote to store
legal research.
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.
Be aware, if you come to
do any
legal research at one of the LD libraries in the UK, that whilst we have a broader collection of e-resources than ever, where and how you
use some of it is still constrained.
And I don't think there's much doubt that when it comes to
legal and scholarly
research, we'll have to
use standardized URIs (uniform resource identifiers) rather than URLs that identify a document by its network location.