Sentences with phrase «legal database»

• Created and maintained an extensive legal database that included information about every case the firm had worked on.

Professional achievements: implemented a new legal database which reduced the time of drafting contract templates by 50 %

In a decision recently published to an online legal database, Ron Cherkewich, from Prince Albert, Sask., has been ordered to pay a fine and investigative costs totaling $ 10,500 for the ill - advised stunt, which the law society said amounted to conduct unbecoming a lawyer.

The majority of legal database services convert footnotes to linked endnotes.

We still don't have an online legal database.

Terence Homer, the appellant, worked as a police officer for 30 years before transferring to the Police National Legal Database in 2005.

With the addition of new search features the free legal database is continually closing the gap with the commercial publishers, who will have to develop completely innovative services to take legal research to the next level.

What sort of innovations should we be asking the legal database vendors or the Googles of this world to develop?

With the addition of new search features the free legal database is continually closing the gap with the commercial publishers, who will have to develop completely innovative services to take legal research to the next level... [more]

I do believe that GTDT has a real future and, according to me, it's one of the best legal database I've ever had access to in these last 10 years.

Based on a recent article about Thomson Reuters revenue, «The WestlawNext legal database has been sold to more than 18,500 customers since its launch in February 2010, representing 34 percent of Westlaw's revenue base.»

To use any legal database with confidence, legal researchers need certainty as to its scope and depth.

New case law is in a digital format already, so it is not as difficult as it use to be to build a legal database.

UPDATE: Though I am finding the transcripts a bit more frustrating than enlightening, but I did very much enjoy seeing Jeff Green in the Gall argument talk about the reasonableness of a sentencing judge looking to a «legal database, for example, or even a blog or something like that.»

There's 255 million documents in the Fastcase and Docket Alarm databases, and so, we have a ton of information about judges or law firms or clients, and so armed with the kind of whole legal database of judicial opinions and statutes, all of the motions and pleadings from the Docket Alarm database and then all of the metadata about filings in PACER, what the pace of things were, when they happened.

Some lawyers retire in order to do other things, but many lawyers will retire because the practice of law isn't much fun anymore (e.g. legal research has become no «more than a google box on top of a legal database.»

Something that I had long wondered was whether natural language search was truly being offered by the 6 tools tested in Mart's study and it would appear, according to the research, that none of the six legal database search services offer true natural language search.

There is no denying, though, that students tackling a research problem (strictly legal or not) will often head to the Internet before even using an established legal database.

You may want to look at Author Max — http://www.methodm.com/author-max — it is a Word add - in that provides some functionality that will be helpful to legal research specifically (such as Paste Unformatted when copying from a legal database), and other functionality that just makes good sense (such as setting once my rules for front matter, footers, headers and then applying automatically, or pre-flight check to look for leftover revision marks or broken cross-references).

In addition to the latest online databases, we employ our own centralized legal database, a vast repository of information that gives us instant access to forms, articles, case law, legislation, and relevant previous work.

This is enough to restore my faith in civilization (recently battered, here): You can now get free access to an independent and nonprofit global legal database, according to Bill Heinze.

If Canlii added a Digg - type rating feature to its case law collection, that could be the low - cost value - added torpedo that finally takes down the commercial legal database providers.

I find it very strange that Google has shown no interest in creating a legal database.

Westlaw China online legal database is a powerful legal research tool customized for legal professionals.

Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database in the world — announced a seed round at a $ 100 million valuation.

Hence to simulate «legal» decisions requires more than a legal database.

Younger lawyers are, predictably, more comfortable with the media than their older colleagues, according to a recent survey for LexisNexis, the legal database company: 86 percent of lawyers ages 25 to 35 are members of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, as opposed to 66 percent of those over 46.

The decisions listed in the following pages were taken from the subscriber accessed legal database «LexisNexis Canada» («QL») website after a search was conducted under the name of Justice Moldaver.

My next step was to look to see if I could locate the text in a Norwegian government source — official gazette, parliamentary website, legal database.

Which, according to you, is the best online legal database?

Instead, readers interested in this high - level spat were able to follow the debate in almost real time, without paying for a law - review subscription or access to an electronic legal database.

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.

They receive a fact pattern with a legal question and head straight to the nearest legal database to run a search, as if they were searching for the nearest Chinese restaurant.

The lawyer would also expect the results to be somewhat similar no matter which legal database a lawyer uses.

«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.

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.

Algorithms are continually changing, and each of the legal database providers in this study has changed their algorithms since the study data was collected.

We only focus on attorneys (not dentists, plumbers, doctors, roofers, etc.) so we have a massive legal database & expertise we leverage to help produce top notch results for our clients.

Research in a legal database or in an encyclopedia — using keywords — has proved fruitless.

The sessions under the heading e-Justice portal 3.0 library addressed the question of a single legal database, offered in full text.

«Without the case being reported it will not appear on the free legal databases, which seriously limits access to justice for those affected.

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.

Justis, the UK collection of legal databases, provides a very useful EU bulletin from its website.

Even our smallest branches still provide access to legal databases like Hein Online and Lawsource.

BTW, I use the term «Wexis» to denote commercial legal databases, and not to promote one over another!

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 results.

E-discovery tools can handle review prioritization as well, something most lawyers know from legal databases or consumer tools like Google in which the search tool prioritizes results.

That means wherever you practice it's likely you'll have access to one of these legal databases.

The link above goes directly to the University of Calgary's Virtual Law Library, which includes information about: Legislation; Courts; Legal Databases; Legal Periodicals; Aboriginal Law; Human Rights; International Law; Natural Resources, Energy & the Environment; Trade and Commerce; Government Bodies; Law Reform Commissions; Reference Sources; Research Guides; Selected Websites; Legal Profession; Law for the Layperson; Law Libraries; and Law Publishers.

Which brings me to another criticism: the site is poorly laid out in my view — too busy, way too many red hyperllinks, and generally the kind of unlovely appearance we've come to expect from commercial legal databases.