To develop those tags, Byrd
told me, Lex Machina's developers spoke to a number of
leading securities
litigators to find out what analytics they would want to know.
Tell your students and younger associates that they can't use the subscription databases until AFTER they've read the relevant summary in (1) the
leading texts (2) asked — where that facility exists — somebody who should know if the same question was reaserched within recent memory and where the memo is; (3) consulted a
leading treatise such as the CEDs even if only for the case law; (4) asked somebody one or two years ahead of them if they know the most recent case (s), (5) searched CanLII, the other LIIs etc, (6) for
litigators, looked at the subject matter indicies for the Advocates» Quarterly and the Supreme Court of Canada law review and (7) signed a written declaration that they did (1) through (6), as required, properly.