Sentences with phrase «electronic legal research»

That and a passion for demonstrating — and expanding — the potential for electronic legal research.

There is a new chapter on Electronic Legal Research that covers commercial and free electronic research tools.

Try it out and see how far electronic legal research has come in 40 years.

It seeks to understand how present and future changes in the communication of law, including electronic legal research, influence the legal profession and legal practice.

The guide was published three years ago when electronic legal research was not as widespread as it is today.

A reduced learning curve requires fewer write - offs of billed hours and electronic legal research charges — and an improved bottom line for the firm.

After all, most of us are now pretty comfortable with electronic legal research.

While the foregoing points might be valid, the current omnipresence of electronic legal research resources doesn't translate to omnipresent skill in their use.

A complimentary electronic legal research newsletter for clients and friends of National Legal Research Group.

The following Legal Research Updates are complimentary electronic legal research newsletters, authored by National Legal Research Groups Senior Attorneys, that provide timely information on relevant case law developments and statutory and regulatory changes in the following legal specialty areas:

Please refer to the Cost Effective Electronic Legal Research section of this page.

Today, electronic legal research costs often are measured differently, access to the databases is usually much more widely available in a given firm than was previously the case, and use of electronic research is seen as necessary to complete most research assignments.

«These findings indicate clear advantages resulting from the addition of the ROSS tool to electronic legal research involving traditional tools,» the report concludes.

As was held in Aram Systems Ltd v Novatel Inc (supra), I consider disbursements for electronic legal research similar to disbursements for photocopying.

They include airfare in the amount of $ 398.00 and online electronic legal research in the amount of $ 606.00.

Loislaw was one of the first electronic legal research services to offer smaller - firm lawyers a lower - cost alternative to Westlaw or LexisNexis for researching cases and statutes.

While law libraries are not extinct, electronic legal research prevails as the most common method of legal research.

The Canadian Bar Association Guidelines for Practicing Ethically with New Information Technologies has a section on electronic legal research.

(See Cost - Effective Electronic Legal Research.)

In consideration of the fact that no clear justification has been provided to substantiate the amount claimed and the fact that I regard legal computerized research, unless otherwise proven, as office overhead expense as it compares to the subscription services law firms library had to maintain in the past and which were also considered office overhead, the disbursements claimed for electronic legal research are not allowed.

[54] Counsel for Nordbank claims a total amount of $ 1,615.15 (Quicklaw: $ 1006.89 and Westlaw Carswell: $ 608.26) for electronic legal research.

In a conversation the other day we touched on the differences between how (or if) electronic legal research was taught when I was in law school, and then a few years later when I first instructed legal research and writing.

I would not allow a disbursement charge for «electronic legal research» any more than I would allow a disbursement charge for subscribing to the O.R.'s.

The use of electronic legal research (through services like Quicklaw or Westlaw in Canada) is almost a necessity in modern litigation.

In my view, disbursements for electronic legal research are similar to disbursements for photocopying; it is the copies, not the copiers, that are being paid for.

The latter chapter focuses primarily on digest services, but also refers readers to the chapter on Electronic Legal Research.

Because we offer so many tools for both print and electronic legal research, we also offer regular training and refreshers on these products.