Sentences with phrase «legal research instruction»

Those of us who carry out legal research or provide legal research instruction as a regular part of our livelihoods or occupations often think of legal research in what I think of as a more traditional context: the private law firms, the corporate legal department, the government (i.e., justice departments), the courts (i.e., by court counsel and students / clerks), the law school (by or for students and professors).

Librarians in law schools obviously carry out legal research and offer legal research instruction, but what about also business schools, or other university departments such as social or political science?

In this light, forward - thinking law schools and law firms should be contemplating the future roles of legal research, legal research instruction and law libraries in their organizations, curricula and training.

As noted in the American Association of Law Libraries Access to Justice White Paper, legal research instruction has always been core to academic librarianship.

Legal research instruction doesn't just happen in the classroom.

After much research Taylor set out to build on ontology for legal research instruction.

In contrast I found the law students I worked with to be quite good at research overall, which I'm sure reflects well on them, improvements in legal research instruction in law schools nationally, firm hiring practices, and perhaps on my teaching.

Students require legal research instruction.

Those of us who carry out legal research or provide legal research instruction as a regular part of our livelihoods or occupations often think of legal research in what I think of as a more traditional context: the private law firms,... [more]

Nothing much will change until private sector employers and their law librarians demand improvements in legal research instruction.

Reflective assessment has long been recognized as a critical tool for legal research instruction, 115 and its value in a non-linear research process can not be overstated.

It turns out that «modernizing» legal research instruction has little to do with databases, gadgets, or mobile apps.

We must now be mindful to make audience part of legal research instruction as well.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

Legal research instruction can no longer be tied to specific technology, be that «old» technology like books or whatever version of commercial legal research services are currently available.

I'm now at about the same point in the legal research instruction process as was Ms Thomas in late October; I also have had a few days to reflect on the process.

I've just emerged from a few weeks of first - year law student legal research instruction.

Instead of guiding principles, I came up with a list of things I found important to remind myself of during legal research instruction.

To tinker away at orientation, reference, and legal research instruction initiatives that have been percolating and to have them in place for the fall term.

Not exact matches

The Great Library serves the legal information needs of Law Society of Ontario licensees and other legal researchers by facilitating access to an extensive collection of electronic and print resources, and by providing legal research assistance and instruction.

The Great Library serves the legal information needs of Law Society of Ontario licensees and other legal researchers by facilitating access to an extensive collection of electronic and print resources, and by providing legal research assistance and instruction.

The Great Library serves the legal information needs of Law Society of Ontario licensees and other legal researchers by facilitating access to an extensive collection of electronic and print resources, and by providing legal research assistance and instruction.

The Great Library serves the legal information needs of Law Society of Ontario licensees and other legal researchers by facilitating access to an extensive collection of electronic and print resources, and by providing legal research assistance and instruction.

The law school's Tarlton Law Library convened the conference, Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in Legal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research skLegal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - researchResearch, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research sklegal - researchresearch skills.

With six dual JD - MLS professionals on staff (called Research Attorneys), the library also has a place offering targeted instruction in substantive classes that require a paper, an undergraduate level course in legal research, and also a specialized course in administrative law research that parallels the substantiveResearch Attorneys), the library also has a place offering targeted instruction in substantive classes that require a paper, an undergraduate level course in legal research, and also a specialized course in administrative law research that parallels the substantiveresearch, and also a specialized course in administrative law research that parallels the substantiveresearch that parallels the substantive course.

To many students, legal research is sort of the broccoli and spinach of first - year law school courses, and research instruction tutorials come at a time when they're beginning to feel the weight of their workload.

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

Legal Research & Writing: Drafting Straight - Forward Jury Instructions — A paralegal's guide to using simple, clear language to improve your jurors» comprehension.

Whether or not we completely abandon bibliographic research instruction, there will always be a gap between the «old» and «new» or current way of doing legal research.

The requisite skills for doing so, moreover, are sufficiently distinct from domestic legal research and reasoning that they can not be acquired either by osmosis or by simple extrapolation of domestic techniques to a transnational plane.40 Consequently, rising twenty - first century lawyers will need explicit exposure to, and instruction in, the basic LRW skills that are fundamental to a transnational legal practice.

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

And to the extent that our legal arguments rest upon such foundations,... well let's say that the need for remedial research instruction is a constant with all research lawyers and law firm librarians.

In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing, as well as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.

[a] non-profit consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer - mediated legal instruction and supports institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education.

2013) This textbook covers such legal documents as jury instructions, statutes, email, and opinion letters, but only alludes to public legal writing in the chapter on «Scholarly Articles and Other Research Papers,» suggesting that research work may take the form of «an informative report explaining an area of law to a firm's client [or] an update on a change in law for an agency newsletterResearch Papers,» suggesting that research work may take the form of «an informative report explaining an area of law to a firm's client [or] an update on a change in law for an agency newsletterresearch work may take the form of «an informative report explaining an area of law to a firm's client [or] an update on a change in law for an agency newsletter.»

Legal research and writing and the instruction of these — which, of course, involves the library and librarians — were certainly given their fair due.

Attorney Neil Magner has been recognized for excellence in Advanced Legal Research in Wisconsin law by the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.

Shawn Nevers Shawn G. Nevers teaches legal research and is head of reference services and research instruction at the Howard W. Hunter Law Library at Brigham Young University.

«[T] echnology is particularly well suited for legal education, and especially for legal research and writing instruction, because the nature of law practice is becoming increasingly technical.»

Provide professional skills instruction in the following areas: problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research, fact investigation, interviewing and counseling, negotiation, organization and management.

Criticisms of part - time programs continued through the 1950s and 1960s, and some scholars questioned the viability of certain instruction in part - time programs due to concerns about the ability of part - time programs to teach students legal research and writing in addition to questions about whether these programs provided adequate seminars for students.42 These critics essentially argued that evening programs were not capable of preparing students under ««modern conditions.

J. 575, 578 (2011)(suggesting that «law librarians with recent practice experience» can «draw on their experience in a contemporary legal research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-legal research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (200research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (200Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-RRB-.

41 Similarly, Sheila Miller describes a «short in - class research exercise where the students are given a legal question and instructions that they have to use free internet sources to get the answer.»

The course may include some basic instruction in legal research and citation form.

Should we spend more time on identifying appropriate sources and instruction on how to apply search results to a legal research problem?

That is, perhaps research or instruction in these other contexts is «peripherally» legal, or traditional legal research.

The Research Instruction and Patron Services (RIPS) division of the American Association of Law Libraries has just released its 19th Annual National Legal Research Teach - In Kit.

But, invariably, others carry out legal research or might even provide instruction in research.

Purely coincidentally, a similar thought arose this morning in an internal planning meeting about our legal research and writing instruction this fall.

The duties and responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to, the following functions, which are not listed in any particular order of significance: • Teach one or two sections of Legal Research and Writing per semester, which includes providing classroom instruction, timely written feedback on assignments, and individual academic counseling on progress towards course learning objectives.