Sentences with phrase «legal reference sources»

Assist students and staff with legal reference sources, legal publications, and online sources.

Excellent research and analytical skills and a working knowledge of legal reference sources, legal publications and computerized legal research platforms is essential.

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Is legal reference librarianship just like being an AI law librarian to users — just a source for answers, or is there more?

Is there satisfaction for the legal reference librarian in just being a source for answers?

I agree with Sarah and Kristin that the value of citation tools and reference managers can be so much better exploited for primary legal materials drawn from databases or open - web sources, including CanLII, so they are cited as what they are.

But when it comes to finding case law that is fleshed out with annotations, references and secondary sources, we remain restricted, for the most part, to the major legal research vendors.

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.

The most widely stated reason for continuing to reference print law reports sources is a widespread belief among legal researchers that there is some intrinsec value in print law reports that is lacking in electronic sources.

1 To the extent that you are not a public figure and this is not a matter of public concern, even a negligent misrepresentation about what you actually wrote on Facebook, that is not a statement of opinion and is not accompanied by a reference allowing someone to confirm the accuracy of the statement at the source, could give rise to legal liability on the part of the person giving the tip.

For librarians and legal researchers, the ideal would be to move seamlessly from reference source to reference source, irrespective of who the publisher might be.

«The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has launched an «online patent commons reference library» at patentcommons.org with searchable databases containing «promises, pledges, covenants and other legal undertakings made by contributors» to benefit open - source software and standards,» writes Bill HSource Development Labs (OSDL) has launched an «online patent commons reference library» at patentcommons.org with searchable databases containing «promises, pledges, covenants and other legal undertakings made by contributors» to benefit open - source software and standards,» writes Bill Hsource software and standards,» writes Bill Heinze.

Now in its 19th year, The Canadian Legal Lexpert ® Directory is a comprehensive online and print reference source identifying Canada's leading practitioners in more than 60 practice areas and leading law firms in over 40 practice areas.

The primary purpose of a legal citation or reference is to enable the reader to easily locate a cited source.

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.

From my own conversations with corporate counsel, my sense is that they rely heavily on word - of - mouth referrals and references, but that legal directories provide corroboration and affirmation, as do other sources — including blogs.

While MLA and the other style guides have eliminated the programmatic use of abbreviations in bibliographic references (no more op cit or ibid) and in the citation of periodical sources, the students responsible for refining legal citation practice continue to develop ever more incomprehensible abbreviations for increasingly obscure purposes and sources.

The APA Publication Manual, 6th edition states» References to legal materials... which include court decisions, statutes, other legislative materials, and various secondary sources, are more useful to the reader if they provide the information in the conventional format of legal citations.»

Even the reference to Black's Law Dictionary — which Justice Rooke describes as the OPCA's «legal bible» — overlaps with a resource mentioned by some of my interviewees as they search for sources to enable them to understand the law and advance their case.

«Chambers guides are an indispensable reference source for anybody looking for up - to - date and objective information on the legal marketplace.»

Following in the Halsbury's tradition of excellence, Halsbury's Laws of Canada is an indispensable reference source for legal research.

LIS - LAW is a «list for news and discussion on legal information and law libraries, with particular reference to UK and EU sources.»

Despite this, no in - house lawyer should be hired without references from a person capable of assessing the lawyer's legal skills and lawyers who have worked with the candidate are the best source.

The third edition of Legal Ethics: Theories, Cases, and Professional Regulation has been adapted to reference the Federation of Law Societies» Model Code of Professional Conduct as its primary source of ethical rules, so that it may apply to all Canadian jurisdictions.