Even our smallest branches still provide access to
legal databases like Hein Online and Lawsource.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.
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.
Maximizing the re-use of finished work - product is a key principle of creating the high cost - efficiency of a centralized
legal research support service
like LAO LAW, accompanied by highly specialized
legal materials used, and specialized principles of
database management.
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like have been replaced by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.
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.
For a firm
like VLP, they certainly must have significant costs for
legal research and other computerized
databases or the computer network that these lawyers use to communicate with each other.
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.
Some useful tools are the Cardiff Index to
Legal Abbreviations, library catalogs including Open WorldCat and the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, full - text law and non-law journal
databases / scholarship repositories, and digital libraries
like Google Books, HathiTrust, Gallica, etc..
One professor pointed out that the publisher was adamant about protecting «its» IP, but in fact the content of the
database,
like many in the
legal world, consists of research produced at universities and handed over for free... [more]
One way to do this would be using appropriate sources of information
like, for instance,
legal databases which are pretty resourceful in terms of legislation and case - law of other Member States and other courts respectively.
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.»
Like every
legal publisher, CanLII needs a steady revenue stream, whether in the form of a grant, for a fee for service, or for payment on subscription for access to case law
databases.
And, just
like the
legal profession has had to adjust its approach to pricing, the fact that Filemaker has now moved to a subscription model means that the bar has been lowered for getting access to powerful
database benefits.
Coming from a background that has touched Telecommunications, Finance,
Databases and horizontal technologies (
like the Internet of Things, Big Data and Computational Linguistics),
Legal Technology might seem to be a bit of a departure.
And that includes the supposedly safe old standbys
like «strategy» and «counsel»: huge
databases of business and
legal intelligence will be able to provide increasingly reliable indicators of how various tactical approaches will pan out.
Until recently there was limited ability to develop tools integrating
legal information for tasks
like research and citation management without maintaining full
databases of content.
Vendors
like Casetext and Jurify have taken steps to incorporate social content within
legal research results, replacing the work of dedicated taxonomists and curators of the LexisNexis and Westlaw
databases.
Example resumes for this position showcase skills
like leading efforts into increasing product stewardship for the pharmaceutical industry, serving as the primary
legal researcher for over 50 pieces of legislation, and creating
databases of supporters for proposed legislation.
So while perhaps some of the actions that took place in the FTC's case were arguably
legal, actions
like failing to verify data spewed out of a criminal
database are clearly not fair.