They trust blogs to
do their legal research at twice the rate as the average legal consumer.
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.
Many prospective law clerks have already
done some legal research at a law firm.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
In any case, «the absence of a
legal framework» in the places where they want to access biodiversity «doesn't mean scientists can
do whatever they want,» says Tamatoa Bambridge, an anthropologist
at the Center of Island
Research and Environmental Observatory in Moorea, French Polynesia.
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.
For example, LAO LAW
at Legal Aid Ontario is exactly that — a centralized legal research unit providing legal opinions for those lawyers willing to do legal aid c
Legal Aid Ontario is exactly that — a centralized
legal research unit providing legal opinions for those lawyers willing to do legal aid c
legal research unit providing
legal opinions for those lawyers willing to do legal aid c
legal opinions for those lawyers willing to
do legal aid c
legal aid cases.
Yes, law school
does a good job
at training you to «think like a lawyer» and spot issues,
do legal research, draft
legal documents, and put together a
legal argument.
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.
One of the things we don't talk about much on the
legal research side of things here
at Slaw Tips are... [more]
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.
The myriad of the Rules of Court and the flood of Forms dominate the cycle of all lawyers and Judges, and this is the toughest area for SRL»S to navigate and prepare because they have jobs and
do not have the luxury of unlimited resources such as; a) Client Money b) Office supplies c) Secretaries d)
Legal Assistants e) The latest in
research tools
at their disposal.
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.»
Where books put concrete corners around information, electronic sources can seem to present the same information as seamlessly connected.36 Quite often, Internet researchers care less about the nature of the information source than they
do about its content.37 And even the fee - based
legal research providers no longer require researchers to make source selections
at the outset.
At Alberta Law Libraries, we are
legal information experts who can help you find resources and show you how to
do legal research.
It doesn't take much
research skill to find the key lawyers
at the bigger firms; the real art is sniffing out the hidden gems in the nooks and crannies of the
legal market.
Of late, law schools and
legal research classes have
done a better job
at adding transactional law offerings for their students, but there's still a way to go.
I've
done a lot of
legal research and writing — when I first started it involved
researching diverse issues and writing a summary or memo, but I've now written a lot of briefs on my own
at this point,» one third - year told us.
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.
Legal research can be tricky so make sure you are looking at material for your jurisdiction (don't look up what you need for a restraining order on a California legal website if you live in Nova Sco
Legal research can be tricky so make sure you are looking
at material for your jurisdiction (don't look up what you need for a restraining order on a California
legal website if you live in Nova Sco
legal website if you live in Nova Scotia!)
Dr Botero's previous experience as a researcher
at Yale University and consultant for the World Bank focused on comparative
legal research and developing cross-country indicators for the World Bank's
Doing Business report.
Following up on yesterday's news that the
legal sector gained 1,000 jobs in September, I have
done some
research to look
at the jobs gap in the
legal market to give some context to the gain of 1,000 jobs.
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.
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..
A great example of how this year's
legal trends report is helping inform our roadmap is if we look
at the consumer
research we
did.
«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.
law schools pad their employment figures — 96 % employed — by counting as «employed» any job
at all,
legal or non-
legal, including part time jobs, including unemployed graduates hired by the school as
research assistants (or by excluding unemployed graduates «not currently seeking» a job, or by excluding graduates who
do not supply employment information).
Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of
legal services as agents to North American lawyers
at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are document review or analysis, large drafting projects or
legal research or client bulletins that
do not require specific «local» knowledge).
I look
at the
research done in the US, UK, and Australia on clinical
legal education, and it strikes me how comparatively little has been
done in Canada.
Now the bulk of
legal research training is
done by the WESTLAW and LEXIS representatives who meet our first year students
at the door.
For example,
legal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid c
legal research support services available to all lawyers
at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough
legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid c
legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who
do Legal Aid c
Legal Aid cases.
After getting a JD, I
did some
legal research for my later - to - be husband (he had the Iranian hostage lawsuit)... then I was a clinical fellow
at Antioch law school for one semester.
Last year I made my views known to the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Law Foundation of Ontario, which donates funds to the law libraries in Ontario as well as the Minister of the Attorney General about being denied access to the John Sopinka Law Library
at the Hamilton Court House for wanting to
do my own
legal research.
Gillian Calder is an associate professor of law teaching constitutional law and family law
at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law and
doing research on critical
legal pedagogy.
I've also found that the only way to get better
at legal research is to
do more of it.
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.
Lower technology costs — for
legal research, case management, document automation and client relation software — enable lawyers to leave their firm with a few clients and handle the same matters as they
did at their large firm without losing a large portion or revenues to overhead.
He has experience
doing medical -
legal research with a large firm; he has been a
research director
at a major Ottawa firm; and was for a number of years Special Projects Director and Webmaster
at Quicklaw.
Rebecca Johnson is a professor of law teaching criminal law, business associations, and
legal theory
at UVic law and
doing research on Inuit law and film.
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-.
Has the point been reached yet
at which it is professionally negligent not to
do online
legal research?
Rhim kindly agreed to tell readers about the work he is
doing in South Korea and what the latest version of his application will
do, which
at present focuses on
legal research.
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.
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.
Mr. Spence says he
does all of his
legal research for free by visiting the library
at the New York City Bar Association and taking advantage of their subscriptions to WestLaw and LexisNexis.
This is unfortunate because the
Legal Services
Research Centre, established during Steve Orchard's reign
at the Commission, has
done well both under its first head, Pascoe Pleasence, and his successor, Alexy Buck.
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.
At least for me — using IE7 — the
Legal Research Web site doesn't let me go back to the site whence I came.
If you would like additional
legal research assistance, please
do not hesitate to call the reference desk
at 305-284-3585, e-mail us, or visit the library.