Sentences with phrase «in legal citations»

In a 16 page document available on SSRN three weeks ago, «Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations,» Harvard professors Jonathan Zittrain and Kendra Albert:

Debating periods in legal citations may seem trivial and in the grand scheme of things, it probably is.

Should it be any different in regard to the use of pointless periods in legal citations that have been shown time and again to serve no purpose whatever in locating a case?

Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination of the heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case law.

It is a response to Simon Fodden's post on squigglies, pilcrows, and gaspers and Gary Rodrigues» post, «The full stop in legal citation — has its time finally come?

The preface to the fifth edition explains (without once naming The Bluebook): «Feedback from membership surveys pointed to the staying power of certain scholarly traditions in legal citation and urged that ALWD modify its rules to acknowledge those traditions.»

A year change prompts reflection on the roles dates play in legal citation.

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You can find more detailed information, including legal citations in National Consumer Law Center's publication Student Loan Law.

And, of course, in order to use the systems of citation common, if not mandated, in legal work, one must have access to volumes published by Westlaw or LexisNexis in which the citations and pagination appear — although online portals like Google Scholar and Fastcase are doing pretty well at adding this information.

Would the crowd post answers in the form of legal citations?

It seems unlikely that the legal market in Canada is sufficiently large to make the development of a custom citation management software package viable for a software company, as they are not generally very expensive.

Certain legal writing «experts» suggest that all citations be placed in footnotes in order to make judicial opinions more readable for the general public.

By automating citation management and formatting, these software packages save considerable time in research and composition, but there are many issues surrounding their adoption by the legal community.

The primary purpose of a style guide for legal citation is to ensure that everyone can understand how various combinations of numbers, letters, brackets and punctuation make it possible for the reader to find the full text of a case referred to in a book, article or another case.

The Bluebook Uniform System of Citation has been in the news a lot lately, especially after Carl Malamud and Public Resource published the open source and freely available Baby Blue's Manual of Legal Citation.

I stumbled across part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition website, where I found a good swathe of the 6th edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation available online in PDF.

In fact, you don't even need a citation to retrieve a published case these days.33 And beyond the obvious benefits of ease and convenience, this is excellent news for legal research professors; we no longer need to teach the nuts and bolts of navigating arcane legal sources.

Legal Research & Writing: Sentence Citations vs. Footnotes — What is the best method for citing cases in legal documLegal Research & Writing: Sentence Citations vs. Footnotes — What is the best method for citing cases in legal documlegal documents?

In addition to covering opinion writing, the Guide has helpful reviews of legal research, writing, and citation pertinent to writing opinions complete with useful charts and a sample generic research plan.

Inbound links are of interest because, like citations in legal writing, they indicate some type of «authoritative» status on the part of the receiving site.

It goes without saying that legal citations are important, but if the same goal can be achieved in a more efficient way, why not take the alternate route?

which uses natural language in connection with IBM's Watson to search cases, statutes and regulations to provide legal information ranging from citations to full legal briefs.

First - year law students spend countless hours flipping through the Bluebook in hopes of mastering the art of legal citation.

Many results have been posted on various legal websites by so called SEO professionals, and in most of them they have shown that, in conjunction with compelling content that answers questions, AND that content being picked up by other sites, in the form of citations to the original document, using the tool has helped their clients» websites get better rankings.

But one important factor can be addressed by changing the manner by which legal services are regulated — the lack of legal information: not knowing if it is better to appear in court, or better to not appear because if you do and you are unable to pay the fine, you will necessarily be incarcerated, not knowing whether it is possible to request a more convenient court date in order to maintain employment, not knowing if children are allowed in the courtroom and not having access to child care, not knowing if the citation itself can be challenged, and, if so, how.

In 1926, the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Erwin Griswold, produced a pamphlet covering proper forms of legal citation.

However, I think legal citation is destined to languish in purgatory (if not the other place) as only a few pendantic folks like us get terribly exercised over it.

Law Library) in The Next Generation of Legal Citations: A Survey of Internet Citations in the Opinions of the Washington Supreme Court and Washington Appellate Courts, 1999 - 2005 [SSRN], 9 J. App.

The shortlist, unveiled today, comprises the partners who received the most citations in Legal Week Intelligence's annual Best Legal Adviser survey, which this year canvassed the opinions of more than 750 general counsel and senior in - house lawyers.

is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome built by Michael Poulshock now in collaboration with Cornell's Legal Information Institute that turns legal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material cLegal Information Institute that turns legal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material clegal citations into hyperlinks to open access versions of the material cited.

of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation and I must say that in my experience with the 7th ed., it is far closer to the 7th circle of hell than the 7th sphere of heaven.

As the original Carswell publisher for the Guide, I am quite proud of its role in educating the legal profession in correct forms of citation.

The law reports classified by The Guide to Legal Citation as semi-official law reporters are in reality commercial publications prepared by legal publishers in the exactly the same manner as any other law reLegal Citation as semi-official law reporters are in reality commercial publications prepared by legal publishers in the exactly the same manner as any other law relegal publishers in the exactly the same manner as any other law report.

In the contemporary context, to include parallel cites, whether to print reports or Lexis / Westlaw citations, is to extend to commercial publishers a role in the legal process that they no longer merit or deservIn the contemporary context, to include parallel cites, whether to print reports or Lexis / Westlaw citations, is to extend to commercial publishers a role in the legal process that they no longer merit or deservin the legal process that they no longer merit or deserve.

Perhaps it is time for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to step in and formulate a Model Code of Legal Citation, as they have done with the Model Code of Professional Conduct, or their task force on the Canadian common law degree.

Ideally, legal publishers should follow the print model and provide all possible correlative electronic citations in every print publication.

The McGill is the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in CaLegal Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation inCitation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in Calegal citation incitation in Canada?

And to Ronald Standler's Legal Research and Citation Style in USA, which I was unaware of until Judge Posner pointed it out.

As Thomas Smith observed in Web of Law, the U.S. citation network is highly skewed, with much of the legal authority concentrated in very few cases and the majority of it «dead.»

The Legal Sourcery Blog reported recently that the three Saskatchewan Courts now have a practice directive in place that requires the use of the Citation Guide for the Courts of Saskatchewan.

These practices — legal citation and casebooks — are but two among many that would encourage a re-evaluation of our legal information processes and the way we teach and practice legal research at the institutional level in light of methods that are not only fairer and more accessible but perhaps even more responsive to and reflective of the realities of legal education and practice, and that address the needs of a public hungry for legal information.

in scanned PDF format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in developing a uniform and vendor - neutral system of legal citation for them.

Zotero comes with a variety of bibliographic and citation styles built in (though not, I think, the Canadian legal citation format).

Third, they sometimes denote subparts in a citation, especially in looseleaf legal sources whose citations contain successive numbers: § 126 [6](b)(1).

The eighth edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation («McGill Guide») was published in May.

I found the use of measurement very transferable to legal research, such as the IF in a legal decision of the number of citations by other cases.

We propose a legal citation format that works in a similar fashion, but instead of being contained in the venerable HREF parameter, we propose a second and optional parameter for the A tag, called LREF for Legal Referlegal citation format that works in a similar fashion, but instead of being contained in the venerable HREF parameter, we propose a second and optional parameter for the A tag, called LREF for Legal ReferLegal Reference.

Fast forward twenty - three years from the time that Berners - Lee uploaded the first web site, and lawyers still use (relatively) ancient legal citations rooted in physical page numbers and expensive bound volumes.

I've been following for years because I do appeals, and motion practice is my favorite of law practice and it's one of the things that I still do, and you know Garner set the world of legal writing on fire by suggesting that all citations should be in footnotes.

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