Sentences with phrase «legal citation»

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?

The following is a simple proposal for legal citation formatting that aims to make maximum use of the ample tools that the past several decades have already brought us.

This can make locating cited material difficult for those who are unfamiliar with legal citation formats.

It's too bad there isn't better legal citation software out there.

Legal citations like to pack the largest amount of information in the smallest amount of space.

Will people now pay more attention when we talk to them about the importance of proper legal citation?

Your friend should insist on talking to the investigator's supervisor and reviewing the relevant legal citations, with a lawyer, if necessary, if she wants to press charges.

Listed below are samples of common citation formats, and a table of translations of some common legal citations along with their locations in the library.

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

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

A group of interested individuals has come together to address the challenge of uniform legal citation in Canada.

Hi Simon: subject to the issue of having absolutely zero time to develop some sort of online Canadian legal citation guide for free, I remain game.

New Tools Turn Legal Citations on Web Pages Into Links to Source Docs»

Those of us who are ready for the jump — or more exactly who have been waiting for years for this particular jump — must seize every opportunity to speak out and clearly endorse a long overdue change on the path to the improvement of legal citation style in Canada.

Comprehensive knowledge of basic legal procedures like legal research and standard legal citation system

For example, an «Introduction to Canadian Law» has been started here (but is still very bare) and there is a start on Canadian legal citation here.

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 cited.

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 report.

In light of the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of academic research, especially in the legal academy, wouldn't it be preferable if we abandoned currently accepted legal citation practices for secondary resources, both print and online, and just used the MLA style?

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

Second, in response to commenter Chris Martin, as an appellate lawyer for 25 years, I got to be pretty good at legal citation of all kinds of sources, and some so new that no style had developed.

Half Full Publishing can provide legal citation in both Canadian McGill guide citations as well as American Bluebook notation, proofreading, suggestions, page layout, and cover design.

Looks like the good people at the Harvard Law Review who have been aggressively protecting the copyright of our be-loathed Bluebook against all those who would let legal citation free into the wild forgot to renew the copyright on the 10th Edition.

The N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics is very pleased to announce the publication of the 1st edition of of its Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation (296 pages, PDF).

Canada's pathbreaking vendor - neutral legal citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

«Please note that adoption of the McGill Guide to Uniform Legal Citation by Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal and Court of Queen's Bench is not specific to the 7th edition.

In joining the legion of «how to cite according to The Bluebook» books and study aids it reinforces the erroneous impression that U.S. legal citation style is both uniform and static.

This is especially true with legal citations from sources like Westlaw.

Legal Intern LEGAL PRACTICE, Washington, DC 5/2007 to 8/2008 • Answered telephone calls an scheduled meetings • Maintained attorney's calendar • Checked legal citations for accuracy • Assisted the attorney in brief preparation

Legal citation only uses roman and italic (or underline) fonts.

This is all further complicated when you are trying to teach first year students about legal citation when EVERY source they use retains the period.

This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's) legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.

However, as a result of concerns with the seventh edition of the McGill Guide, a project was undertaken to develop a Saskatchewan legal citation guide.

Opening up legal citation means abandoning those forms of citation that serve no useful purpose, or, where the limited purpose they serve is outweighed by the complexity of their form.

The next problem with using citation management software is the fact that the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation prescribes a level of detail for citations that is not supported by any extant software package I am aware of.

There are multiple possible starting points to resolve this issue, including rationalizing legal citation style, improving output formats and functionality for legal research tools, and exploring options for software development.

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.

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.

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.