The elective third - year, two - term course
in Advanced Legal Research (taught by adjunct professors) was most valuable, and anyone who had completed that course was exempted from the legal research component of B.C.'s Professional Legal Training Course.
Attorney Neil Magner has been recognized for excellence
in Advanced Legal Research in Wisconsin law by the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.
The other note - worthy legal education and tech event from first week was that those enrolled
in the Advanced Legal Research course will be tested on — wait for it — print materials.
Not exact matches
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions
in the industries and markets
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate
in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations
in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand
in construction and
in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges
in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of
advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and
research and development spending, including
in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including
in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption
in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of
legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes
in political conditions
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes
in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates
in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes
in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations
in the U.S. and other countries
in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result
in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including
in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted
in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is
in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued
in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
IAALS is a national, independent
research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and
advancing excellence
in the American
legal system.
The Exeter and Greenpeace
research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including
legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts
in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place
in the deep sea.
Bethesda, Md., Tues., May 17, 2016 - Four new grants from the National Institutes of Health will support
research on the ethical,
legal and social questions raised by
advances in genomics
research and the increasing availability of genomic information.
By this point
in the term, our
advanced legal research and writing class has covered all the favourite usual suspects:
research plans,
research records and journals, secondary
research using
legal and library databases, federal legislative
research, provincial legislative
research, primary
research using the big three, UK
research, US
research, and so on.
Google Scholar came online
in November 2009, offering
advanced legal research to everyone.
Those anomalies aside, the CARA AI - assisted
research tool strikes me as a major
advance in legal research.
BriefMine is a database of
legal briefs and opinions powered by natural - language search that offers a technologically
advanced platform for conducting
in - depth
legal research.
In October 2010, I wrote about the roll - out of Lexis
Advance for Solos, the flat - rate
legal research platform targeted at one - and two - lawyer firms.
In one of our later
advanced legal research and writing class of the term, we turned our attention from traditional primary and secondary material to alternative or less - expected
legal research resources.
When LexisNexis acquired the
legal analytics platform Lex Machina
in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina's analytics into various LexisNexis products and,
in particular, its Lexis
Advance legal research platform.
The Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers (CTRL), an open source community for
legal practitioners, today released the results from its annual
Advanced Analytics
Research, revealing an uptick
in analytics usage by
in - house
legal departments.
(Part of
advanced legal research course for law students) Seton Hall Law School
in Newark, New Jersey
«We are excited to present our annual
research demonstrating the use and proliferation of
advanced analytics
in the
legal community,» said Philip Favro, director of
legal education and resources at CTRL.
Nevertheless, for those engaged
in legal research, this is the default position from which to begin their work, despite the search engines deployed providing few, if any,
advanced analytical tools.
The year - long education program costs around $ 10,000 and includes coursework
in civil procedure,
legal research, contracts, professional responsibility and
advanced family law.
There are now over 800 lawyers
in the UK working for «virtual» law firms as
advances in technology drive the rise of a new business model
in the
legal sector, shows new
research by Hazlewoods, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors who specialise
in the
legal profession.
Similarly, the most significant technological
advances in the next several years may take place not
in the traditional domain of
legal research (i.e.,
in finding primary and secondary sources), but rather
in the complementary domain of case forecasting.
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.
There's a new edition available of The
Legal Research Dictionary: from
Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, from
Legal Information Services
in North Carolina.
«The attorneys surveyed placed
advanced legal research skills alongside drafting pleadings and motions as the skills both «most needed» and «most lacking»
in litigation practice,» according to Nota Bene, a blog by the librarians at the University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.
In a statement announcing the award, Greg Lambert, AALL president, said, «As leaders of
legal research best practices and
advanced technology tools, our members recognize the value of powerful litigation support resources.
Here's a link to a first chapter by the
Advanced Legal Research instructors at Stanford Law School
in a work on the history of CALR.
In the years since, Lexis also launched Lexis
Advance, its next - generation
legal research platform.
A new visualization tool for case law
research in Lexis
Advance is being announced today by LexisNexis
Legal & Professional.
It followed that a year later with the formal launch
in December 2011 of Lexis
Advance, its next - generation
legal research platform marked by a streamlined and simplified interface and Google - like universal -LSB-...]
I agree that the
legal research landscape has changed, but so long as Advanced Legal Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them in law schools today (and for continuing legal research training for articling students and lawyers,
legal research landscape has changed, but so long as Advanced Legal Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them in law schools today (and for continuing legal research training for articling students and lawyer
research landscape has changed, but so long as
Advanced Legal Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them in law schools today (and for continuing legal research training for articling students and lawyers,
Legal Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them in law schools today (and for continuing legal research training for articling students and lawyer
Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them
in law schools today (and for continuing
legal research training for articling students and lawyers,
legal research training for articling students and lawyer
research training for articling students and lawyers, too).
It followed that a year later with the formal launch
in December 2011 of Lexis
Advance, its next - generation
legal research platform marked by a streamlined and simplified interface and Google - like universal search.
As such, I think there is still much work to be done
in the field of
Advanced Legal Research in our law schools.
In what it says is an industry first for a
legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis
Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.
At our most recent meeting, we had Prof. Anne Stalker talk to us about the
Advanced Legal Research course she runs at the U of C; it's the only compulsory advanced research in the c
Advanced Legal Research course she runs at the U of C; it's the only compulsory advanced research in the c
Research course she runs at the U of C; it's the only compulsory
advanced research in the c
advanced research in the c
research in the country!!
One of the questions put to the panel
in advance of the session was: «What kind of
legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient
in by the end of second or third year of law school?»
The companion course I taught included coverage of the substantive law
in the major
legal research assignments
in the first - year course, sessions on working with upper - level students and scholarly
legal writers, and
advanced training
in working with non-native English speakers.
One of the questions put to the panel
in advance of the session was: «What kind of
legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient
in by... [more]
One interviewee suggested an
advanced legal research course may be one way to improve
in that sense.
(August 2013) BriefMine - BriefMine is a database of
legal briefs and opinions powered by natural - language search that offers a technologically
advanced platform for conducting
in - depth
legal research.
The organization is a national, nonpartisan
research center dedicated to facilitating continuous improvement and
advancing excellence
in the American
legal system.
Guides to
Legal Research Introduction to information skills; Online tutorial
in improving Skills
in Accessing, Finding and Reviewing Information Weblaw
Legal Research Directory Guide to
Legal Research Case Law
Research: a Guide
Advanced Guide to
Researching Case Law Guide to Finding Texts and Articles Guide to Using Lexis Guide to using Westlaw School of Law student guides and resources Australian Guide to
Legal Citation Guide to Searching and
Researching on the Internet Pacific Law Pathfinder Library tour notes and checklist
Research Refresher 2005
While
in law school, Professor Zuckerman received recognition for her excellence
in Legal Research and Writing, Constitutional Law II, and
Advanced Evidence.
With the objective of
advancing legal governance and serving societal needs, the Formosan Brothers Foundation was set up
in 2007 to expand
legal resources
in Taiwan by offering
research opportunities and fellowships.
The role of compassion
in legal practice is the subject of three half - day symposia being run by the Law and Compassion Research Network, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies from
legal practice is the subject of three half - day symposia being run by the Law and Compassion
Research Network, at the Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies from
Legal Studies from May.
During her presentation Darlene identified that about half the law library folk
in the audience are reading us here at Slaw and, when asking who the «
advance scouts» are for Web 2.0, the audience indicated that Slaw fills this role
in the
legal research community.
The patented Interactive Timeline is the most
advanced legal research tool
in the market — there's nothing else like it!
The technologies that contribute to the successful running of a
legal business, such as
legal research platforms and case management systems, are more
advanced in their development.
A good
Advanced Legal Research plan consists of three steps: Don't wait until a case comes
in your door.
The Network sponsors activities to accomplish that goal, including
research and study of
advances in the state - of - the - art of
legal representation, and sponsors continuing
legal education seminars for corporate and outside counsel and insurance professionals.
Those of you who know about the Guthrie medal may spot that it's the Law Foundation's highest honour awarded to
advancing legal research and scholarship, for «outstanding public service which makes a significant contribution to the furthering of
legal education and
research in Ontario».