Legal professionals use a wide range
of legal databases to perform research, verify case law and track data.
I acknowledge that much of the research I do can be, and often is, conducted by searching
online legal databases, as well as internet sites and search engines.
Now, a parallel project aims to bring to this growing body of public - domain law a sophisticated search engine comparable to those of
commercial legal databases.
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 real point of this post though was that commercial
legal databases exist because they provide a service that works.
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.
These
same legal databases are based off of print versions that may be available at your firm or in a local law library.
Examples of hard skills that attorneys need include experience with
specific legal databases, knowledge of legal citation, and familiarity with legal research.
• Legal assistant, with extensive exposure to gather and input case information
in legal database management systems.
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.
At the time, I was already publishing Supreme Court of Canada decisions and various
other legal databases for free for many years without a sustainable funding model.
it got dropped into an elephantine budget measure for military appropriations the
major legal databases apparently scant the relevance of military law
Casemaker provides the rules and regulations on a website for free, but also makes money by providing them to in an indexed and always - updated format to larger
legal databases such as LexisNexis.
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.
«Without the case being reported it will not appear on the
free legal databases, which seriously limits access to justice for those affected.
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 Karakatsanis.
Terence Homer, the appellant, worked as a police officer for 30 years before transferring to the Police
National Legal Database in 2005.
In addition to the useful note by Olga Cabrero on LLRX, A Guide to the Spanish Legal System, I found a helpful piece specifically focussing
on legal databases on Spanish law, which helps in getting around the deficiencies of the major services.
-- CLIC provided moral and material support to Quicklaw, one of the earliest innovators in
creating legal databases and building a platform for distributing legal information online
We subscribe to the top
legal databases available, and have access to the most recent and updated court rules, laws, pleadings, and court forms
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.
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.
Its general collection contains over 7,000 books for inmates» educational and recreational purposes; the law collection is accessible
through legal databases, with computers available for research and other legal work.
The sessions under the heading e-Justice portal 3.0 library addressed the question of a
single legal database, offered in full text.
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.
If a pharmaceutical company can stop producing life - saving drugs because they are no longer profitable, we are totally kidding ourselves that publishers will take a philanthropic approach to preserving the contents of
underperforming legal databases.
This iterative back and forth between drafting and searching generally doesn't require more than keyword searching in a
current legal database.
During the past five years, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Kluwer and other
premier legal databases have consecutively entered into Chinese market.
Increased access to
webbased legal databases and on - line course material has the potential to enhance classroom discussion and increase student satisfaction with the learning process.»
Civil codes are also in
country legal databases and Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) for civil law jurisdictions.
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.
But as I've learned, after asking several labour lawyers and
scouring legal databases for decisions that cite this section, the truth isn't quite so clear - cut.