For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits
in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.
When a lawyer searches
in a legal database, that single search box is like a lure: Put in your search terms and rely on the excellence of the search algorithms to catch the right fish.
Research
in a legal database or in an encyclopedia — using keywords — has proved fruitless.
Constitutional texts are also published at official government websites (parliament, embassy), news sites, IGO and NGO websites, by research institutes, and
in legal databases.
Criminal procedure codes can be published as separate monographs, as parts of foreign official gazettes of law (see Government Gazettes Online), as appendices to books, and
in legal databases or country law portals.
Together, these two competencies require attorneys to understand how algorithms work
in our legal databases.
Not exact matches
The company zeroed
in on high - priced, high - margin financial data, electronic
databases, resources for the
legal and medical industries and textbooks.
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legal protection of computer programs.
Or, for
legal non-citizens, even use your real 4 digits - the state can not conclusively check someone's citizenship status based on just 4 digits of SSN and a name, especially for common names (just because your SSN 4 digits matched a non-citizen immigrant
in INS's
database, doesn't mean that was you.
Last night, during his first extended interview on CapTon since he became speaker back
in February, Carl Heastie said his conference will be following the Senate Democrats» lead, and won't seek a
legal remedy to the MOU that seems to indefinitely delay creation of a
database to be used for ammunition sale background checks.
«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare
in New York, votes against funding an illegal
database (including ammunition
database) against
legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling
in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.
Democrats
in the Assembly and Senate have decided to not file a
legal challenge against the MOU, saying they are satisfied that once the technology is available, the
database will be created.
A
legal challenge to the DNA
database which could force the Home Office to destroy thousands of records begins
in Europe today.
«The majority of cases
in which we have been able to make these individual links have led to convictions and,
in many cases, significant sentences,» says Cindy Harper, a veterinary geneticist at the University of Pretoria
in South Africa who began developing the
database in 2010 to provide evidence that could be used
in legal proceedings.
Using standard
legal research methods, Beletsky and his collaborators systematically searched
legal databases to determine whether naloxone administration
in the out - of - hospital setting has been the grounds for a lawsuit.
While there is currently a
database of
legal trade
in restricted species, it relies on the submission of annual reports which can be undermined by weak domestic legislation and governance hence we are not getting a complete picture of the industry.»
In legal settlements reached with the US government, several companies have been forced to publish
databases listing monies they provide to doctors.
Murdoch participates
in many areas of RD - Connect work: patient registries and
databases, biomaterial sharing, clinical bioinformatics, integrated platform, as well as ethical,
legal and social issues.
Other research interests include data mining using high - dimensional and sparse (regularized) methods, with a focus on text summarization and causal inference with text
in contexts such as newspaper corpora,
legal decisions, and
databases of free - text reports.
Hein's online product, HeinOnline, is a subscription - based
database that provides access to more than 100 million pages of
legal history available
in a fully - searchable, image - based format.
For all of the warrants, we provide the CUSIP number (the
legal identification for each security)
in our
database which eliminates any issues from your brokerage firm as to the correct symbol for them to use for a specific warrant to place your order.
The Animal
Legal Defense Fund maintains a
database of criminal animal cruelty cases
in the U.S. reported to our organization.
According to the
database, this is the only lobby meeting the representative for Koch's
legal, lobbying and public affairs arm — known as Koch Companies Public Sectors — has had
in the last six months with a member of the European commission.
«Law App Guy» is «an experienced technology and
legal marketing professional, with experience
in assisting law firms and lawyers address technology issues, including websites, blogs, mobile platforms, Twitter, internal experience
databases and other technology issues.»
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.
According to a post on the THR, Esq. blog, the phrase is spreading rapidly throughout the
legal universe, as a search of the SEC's Edgar
database «turned up 560 examples of the phrase
in the last couple years alone, including
in CBS CEO Les Moonves» employment agreement.»
Last September, I wrote here about the private beta launch of BriefMine, a
database of
legal briefs that lawyers can mine for arguments and
legal theories they can use
in their own
legal briefs.
The sessions under the heading e-Justice portal 3.0 library addressed the question of a single
legal database, offered
in full text.
Rather, the use cases and impact reviewed indicate that tools like ROSS Intelligence more closely represent a significant iteration
in the continuing evolution of
legal research tools that began with the launch of digital
databases of authorities and have continued through developments
in search technologies.
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 cities with a population of one million or more, information that establishes the personal identity of an individual who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace officer, such as the name, address or social security number of such person, shall not be recorded in a computerized or electronic database if that individual is released without further legal action; provided, however, that this subdivision shall not prohibit police officers or peace officers from including in a computerized or electronic database generic characteristics of an individual, such as race and gender, who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace office
In cities with a population of one million or more, information that establishes the personal identity of an individual who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace officer, such as the name, address or social security number of such person, shall not be recorded
in a computerized or electronic database if that individual is released without further legal action; provided, however, that this subdivision shall not prohibit police officers or peace officers from including in a computerized or electronic database generic characteristics of an individual, such as race and gender, who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace office
in a computerized or electronic
database if that individual is released without further
legal action; provided, however, that this subdivision shall not prohibit police officers or peace officers from including
in a computerized or electronic database generic characteristics of an individual, such as race and gender, who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace office
in a computerized or electronic
database generic characteristics of an individual, such as race and gender, who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace officer.
Commercial publishers also use
legal staff to screen decisions and make judgment calls on what decisions should be considered material of precedential value, and therefore be included
in their
databases.
In the support - services method, legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists in doing legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future research project
In the support - services method,
legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists
in doing legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future research project
in doing
legal research, accompanied by sophisticated
in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future research project
in - house
databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use
in future research project
in future research projects.
These include the use of the term «historical
databases» which it defines as «cases that predate CANLII that are not available on CANLII», as if that were the starting point for
legal research
in Canada.
Algorithms are continually changing, and each of the
legal database providers
in this study has changed their algorithms since the study data was collected.
If such technology were used by CanLII,
in addition to
legal opinions, from its large
databases of materials, other revenue - producing products would be developed for each major area of law and practice, such as: (1) a priced catalogue of the standard memoranda, which would be advertised
in legal publications; (2) a service that summarizes new decisions, statutory amendments, and significant law journal articles; (3) a newsletter for each major area law and practice; and, (4) specialized
databases and projects such as
databases of model factums and average sentences and settlements.
Sometimes the free resources are not seen as truly comprehensive collections, whereas the purchased ones are; sometimes the linking and cross referencing is more sophisticated
in the commercial
databases; often the value - added editorial content of headnotes prepared by
legal editors has been enough to justify the outlay for these reports and legislation online.
What they have that others do not are significant
databases of secondary
legal - research materials such as treatises, specialized
legal - research materials
in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.
«Part of our move to communities was about refocusing on engaging people and helping them write and share commentary and hold discussions
in a way that is more familiar, but that would still help us reach that ultimate vision of a
legal database that is commented on and discussed and enhanced by the
legal community,» Heller says.
Despite the critical importance of secondary content
in conducting
legal research, CANLII's initiatives to date
in developing
databases of secondary content are a bust.
In a comparison of six legal databases — Casetext, Fastcase, Google Scholar, Lexis Advance, Ravel and Westlaw — when researchers entered the identical search in the same jurisdictional database of reported cases, there was hardly any overlap in the top 10 cases returned in the result
In a comparison of six
legal databases — Casetext, Fastcase, Google Scholar, Lexis Advance, Ravel and Westlaw — when researchers entered the identical search
in the same jurisdictional database of reported cases, there was hardly any overlap in the top 10 cases returned in the result
in the same jurisdictional
database of reported cases, there was hardly any overlap
in the top 10 cases returned in the result
in the top 10 cases returned
in the result
in the results.
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FYI, I pulled together a free resource for you that contains the default stop words lists for several of the popular
database search engines we use
in the
legal industry.
Each of those changes represents change
in how
legal information is organized and accessed, as print volumes, digests and the like have been replaced by
databases.
In complex, large - scale litigation and regulatory investigations, the level of electronic information is too big to by hand sort, organize and review (also known as objective coders,
database coders,
legal coders, or litigation coders) review and code documents, files along with other data so the litigation team can easier search and retrieve information throughout the situation or project.
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More often associated with sales teams, CRM software made for the
legal sector is growing
in popularity and can can provide lawyers with the ability to keep a more accurate and up to date
database of clients referrals and retentions, new case matters, and other leads and communications.
I would have specialized
in this back
in law school if anyone had matched evidence classes with
legal research classes («
databases» only referred to Lexis and Westlaw way back when).
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