So if you're practicing labor law in St. Louis, want to incorporate a business in Branson, or just need to
do some legal research from the right side of Kansas City, FindLaw has you covered — and it's all free and mobile - friendly.
Also, it's generally much easier to ask a colleague your legal question instead of always having to
do the legal research from scratch.
Not exact matches
Those banks who
do will be adding a flourishing industry to their portfolios — the latest projections
from industry analysis firm ArcView Market
Research indicate that the
legal cannabis industry will add $ 2.57 billion to the American economy in 2014.
At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific
research, and we
do this just like every other high - quality health care provider
does — with full, appropriate consent
from patients and under the highest ethical and
legal standards.
Firstly, none of the many previous reviews of drug policy have
done this kind of comprehensive comparison (in the US, the drug czar's office is actually banned
from doing research that might show benefits
from legal regulation).
Dratel noted that outside law firm income is
legal in New York, funding things such as cancer
research is not a crime, and legislating on issues campaign donors are interested in — a small step removed
from what Silver allegedly
did — is standard operating procedure.
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 that didn't stop Culberson
from saying he would bolster several programs within the subcommittee's purview — not just NSF's
research account, but also the aeronautics program at NASA, the
Legal Services Corporation, and the Sea Grant program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
«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.
It should be noted that Andrew Wakefield
did not have ethical approval to receive biopsies
from clinicians,
research on biopsies, publish findings or
do anything whatsoever with regard to the children enrolled in the above
research project, for which he had been commissioned and funded by the UK
legal aid board.
As a
legal researcher for a large law firm in Los Angeles specializing in intellectual property, anti-trust and insurance coverage, she provides
legal and non-
legal research assistance for attorneys and marketing professionals
from obtaining the current trends in
legal community and
doing legal research to helping identify business development and marketing opportunities.
If you are not the type of person who enjoys
legal research in your free time, or don't have patience for translating wordy statutes and confusing case laws
from around the country, then this might not be for you.
ALDF attorney member Pamela Frasch
did extensive
legal research and drafted the «Kittles Bill,» which elevated aggravated animal abuse
from a misdemeanor to a felony and allowed shelters to provide veterinary care to impounded animals and to move them
from temporary shelters to foster homes.
My skepticism arises
from a number of things including the columnists» lack of evidence or investigation, my own approach to teaching, my
research and writing on
legal education (both for scholarship and as chair of our curriculum reform committee), and what I see my colleagues at the U of C and in the
legal ethics community
doing for their students.
I received the following email last week
from an employee at LegalZoom: Hey Steve, I've been
doing some
research into
legal issues and how they are represented online, specifically focusing on blogs.
Missing however,
from the self - congratulatory posts, rationalizations for incomplete case law databases, and the unfulfilled promise of expanding its meagre coverage of secondary, was any realistic critique of what had been achieved and what remains to be
done if it is to become a useful tool for
legal research.
Those who rely «almost entirely (or entirely)» on Canlii for primary sources may depend on paper sources for historic content — a perusal of
legal research with pinpoint citations to «page number (s)» would suggest such is the case because often content on the commercial databases don't include the page numbers
from the original print text
from which they were reproduced.
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.
This
research shows that they are a first port of call for many businesses, but a number of these consultants
do not have any professional qualifications and may employ the goal of eliminating all risk
from the workplace rather than setting a proportionate approach to dealing with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other
legal requirements.
Unless they were just popping in to get materials for a
research paper (this before easy Internet access), these people already had a greater handle on what they needed
from legal information than I
did.
I've just returned fresh
from a
research leave where amongst other things I investigated the challenges and possibilities around creating a Canadian subject based
research tool that
does for Canadian Journals what the wonderful Current Index to
Legal Periodicals
does for US journals.
When you challenge the answer provided to you by AI as being disconnected
from the world, change the parameters of your
research accordingly, and iterate, you will be
doing legal research.
Legal research in the US firms,
from what I can gather, is
done by law librarians, attorneys in the litigation groups, and by consultants such as Susan; ie.
The requisite skills for
doing so, moreover, are sufficiently distinct
from domestic
legal research and reasoning that they can not be acquired either by osmosis or by simple extrapolation of domestic techniques to a transnational plane.40 Consequently, rising twenty - first century lawyers will need explicit exposure to, and instruction in, the basic LRW skills that are fundamental to a transnational
legal practice.
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!
JS: In my experience,
legal research has benefited the most
from artificial intelligence, and, in the near term, will continue to
do so.
At the end, we
did have to
do a pitch with a PowerPoint presentation which is not my strongest suit — the PowerPoint — but it was really great because it gave me the opportunity to step out of
legal world where we spend most of our time reading,
researching, dealing with other attorneys, it was a great way to think about things
from a different perspective.
But their proposal has been met with pushback
from the National Conference of Bar Examiners, which doesn't believe that
legal research lends itself to a bar exam format.
That being said, if everything becomes available in electronic form, what is stopping a talented person in another country
from doing Canadian
legal research?
«Although free search engines
do supplement the
legal research I
do, we continue to rely on the value - added features available
from the «for a fee» online subscription services.»
In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least
from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to
do academic
research and writing, as well as how to
do practical
legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries
do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.
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?
The sites that Peggy reviews, most of which are drawn
from a list compiled by the Sunlight Foundation, are wonderfully — I don't know about insanely — useful components of a U.S. government /
legal research toolbox.
Initially taking work
from both, juniors «
do a lot of
legal research and writing memos.
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.
Posts share insights
from quantitative
legal research on corporate law, capital markets, finance, and mergers & acquisitions as well as the debate about what law schools need to
do to produce «practice - ready» graduates and «practice - ready» scholarship.
We interviewed 9,100 buyers of
legal services over the last year, separately from the research that we do for The Legal
legal services over the last year, separately
from the
research that we
do for The
LegalLegal 500.
At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit
legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different posit
legal writing course entitled LAWS (
Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different posit
Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data
from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data
from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I
do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.
Technology assists us in every way,
from the way that
legal services are delivered, the way law teaching is
done (powerpoints in the classroom, entirely online course programming, etc.), and the way
legal research is disseminated (Westlaw, SSRN, online journals).
I decided to
do a bit of
research of my own into the world of
legal blogging and looked at posts
from Am Law 100 firms to sole practitioners, and all in between.
You
do some
legal research, and you come across an arresting sentence in a law review
from a dozen years ago: «Despite the overwhelmingly large number of people who die
from hospital - acquired infections each year, there are virtually no instances of successful litigation against doctors or hospitals.»
Chambers,
Legal 500, and others draw their revenue
from firms advertising in the directories, although the placement of ads and profiles
does not influence the performance of the firm in the independent
research assessment, and this «arm's length» model gives these directories credibility.
I am the sole attorney at this office and I oversee every step of my clients» cases personally,
from doing the
legal research and preparing
legal briefs and memoranda to reviewing incoming and outgoing mail and preparing application forms.
In Seattle there are many lawyers who, for whatever reason,
do not wish to work full time and so contract out their
legal research services for anywhere
from $ 30 to $ 70.
Without having
done extensive
research regarding the relevant state and national statutes in India, given that India's
legal system is derived
from British common law and that British common law jurisdictions would be uniform in how this question is resolved in a matter that arises
from the common law, I think I can provide an answer that is likely to be correct.
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]
Let's start with doctrine: — Current copyright literature Next to Genie Tyburski and the wonderful Virtual Chase — Virtual Chase
Legal Research guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Pete
Research guide: Intellectual Property Law
From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to
do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Pete
research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property
Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Pete
Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss
Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Pete
Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peter Jacso.
One of Canada's most successful advocates writes about what you need to
do to win your case -
from fact investigation and witness preparation - through opening statement, examination, and cross-examination - to
legal research and preparation of final argument.