So I joined the chorus of law firm librarians laying the blame for this lack of fundamental
legal research knowledge at the foot of the law schools, for their inadequate preparation of their students.
By merging expert
legal research knowledge with Silicon Valley data science, BookLawyer will increase the speed and accuracy with which a lawyer can identify the relevant legal issues and authorities, and reduce database subscription costs.
Keep track of these sources, or some from another library, and you'll be surprised how much additional
legal research knowledge you gain that will help you in school or at work.
Not exact matches
Channel your inner Atticus Finch:
Legal knowledge helps you conduct extensive
research, manage daunting tasks and develop multiple arguments.
His
research interests include the areas of corporate governance and corruption as a constraint on business activity, international
legal reform and business ethics in the developing world with a focus on the Middle East, and covenants not to compete as an obstacle to employee mobility and
knowledge transfer.
They must also have an understanding of ethical and
legal issues and the ability to interpret
research as well as having
knowledge of infant growth parameters, child development, and how to use breastfeeding equipment, technology and techniques.
Outlining her qualities, «hard work, discipline, capacity for detailed
research, intimate
knowledge of the law, independence of mind and spirit, honesty and integrity, deep - seated respect for the rule of law and for the best traditions of the
legal profession, abiding belief in the sovereignty of Almighty God», the President stated that these will serve her well in her new office.
My postdoc fellowship allows me to attend law school part time in the evenings; I'm even using my fresh
legal knowledge in my ELSI
research.
The guidelines will provide for a sequential course of study for each of the grades kindergarten through 12 and must include, at a minimum, the following: (1)
knowledge of the
research process and how information is created and produced; (2) skills in using information resources and critical thinking about those resources; (3) the abilities to evaluate information critically and competently, to recognize relevant primary and secondary information, and to distinguish among facts, points of view, and opinions; (4) access to information and information tools; and (5) an understanding of economic,
legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and how to use information ethically and legally.
The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical
knowledge on resource economy, policy,
legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating
research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.
Posts cover law, technology,
knowledge discovery, cybersecurity,
legal research, government regulation, civil liberties, intellectual property law and more.
Prof. Bainbridge says that as far as he can tell, these days law schools hiring professors focus almost solely on qualifications that do not have a «goddamn thing to do with the practice of law» such as «having a PhD» or «having multiple publications, even if they demonstrate the author's utter lack of doctrinal
knowledge or inability to do basic
legal research.»
What has always impressed me most about courthouse librarians is their in - depth bibliographical
knowledge and familiarity with the whole of our
legal literature, especially our
legal heritage in print, and their sensitivity to an appreciation of its continuing value in contemporary
legal research.
In addition to being the author of
Legal Research and Writing, 3rd ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010) and The Law of Independent
Legal Advice, 2nd ed (Toronto: Carswell, 2013), he is a regular speaker at conferences on issues of
knowledge management, technology and the effective organization of litigation documents.
To my
knowledge Lex Machina doesn't literally call their system improvements an «easy button», but the site developments and O'Grady's description are symptomatic of this moment in how we discuss
legal research: there is a desire to make
legal research easier, and as technology improves this is becoming a reality.
Creative Computing: Building a
Knowledge Bank — A
legal electronic
research database can save time and money.
And if students react to seemingly irrelevant print lessons by failing to internalize foundational concepts, then they will likely revert to old
research habits when they inevitably gravitate back to electronic sources to do their actual
research.88 In other words, if the process doesn't carry over to the media they're actually willing to use, then they are far less likely to actually learn the fundamental, foundational concepts that are so critical to good
legal research.89 Instead, they may achieve mere «inert»
knowledge: «the inability to apply skills and concepts in situations other than those in which they were originally learned.»
Despite its print origins, traditionalist
legal research theory holds important lessons for the new researcher who is still developing the
knowledge base necessary to conduct thoughtful
research.
You will find that attorney at Livingston Law Offices, from specialized
legal research to aggressive courtroom representation, and through the Michigan appeals process, our attorneys have the experience and
knowledge to serve your interests.
While
legal research platforms are becoming increasingly easy to use, they are simultaneously making it more difficult for novice researchers to understand and analyze the results that they provide.31 Thus
legal research teaching should leave the method and means of information gathering to the researcher, focusing instead on the foundational
knowledge necessary to accurately categorize the information and assess its completeness.
They don't quite fit the
knowledge «hole» that
legal research teaching must fill.
[5] Other examples are not so commonly predicted (if, indeed, they are predicted at all), yet are no less significant: business models that facilitate free
legal services, the use of non-
legal (notably industry and business)
knowledge and experience to increase client trust in and comfort with the firm and with
legal services more generally, the collection of
knowledge about the
legal issues of individual clients in the same industry for use by a trade association to assist and defend the rights of all in that industry on a collective basis, a severely injured client's reassurance and comfort in knowing that in selecting a certain
legal services provider the client is not just receiving highly specialized advice but also benefitting an association that helps others with the same type of severe injury, the development of a
legal research establishment for experimentation with different ways of providing
legal services.
Integreon is well known for its e-discovery, managed document review,
legal process outsourcing (LPO),
research and
knowledge support, and middle office business services for law firms, corporations, and financial institutions.
And
legal research is not just about «techniques» but also but
knowledge of sources, judgment and analysis and experience.
If «experiential» means a greater emphasis on practical
legal knowledge and skills with the objective of preparing students for professional practice, perhaps an academic
research collection and the library to hold it would not be needed.
take all public
legal knowledge, including judges, law firms, academic blogs, etc. and integrate it into the data where you do your
legal research
Because of the amount of information available today, the number of access choices, and the limited subject
knowledge of a new lawyer, it likely will take several years to develop adequate
legal research skills.
Artificial Lawyer recently had a chat with Irish entreprenuer Gavin Sheridan to hear the unusual story of how start - up Vizlegal came to be and the potential the company has to disrupt the business of
legal knowledge and
research.
Social scientists understandably complain about uninformed forays into their domains by law professors and
legal practitioners who use empirical
research in opportunistic and even quite obviously mistaken ways.20 And yet, some of the new empiricists are equally guilty of approaching the
legal world in opportunistic fashion, failing to take
legal knowledge and expertise seriously.
Tanya Du Plessis, Law Faculty Information Librarian at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, wrote her doctorate dissertation on «Information and
Knowledge Management in Support of
Legal Research in a Digital Information Environment.»
The application of advanced analytics to any number of areas of
legal research and
legal knowledge development are interesting.
Alison is Head of
Knowledge for Eversheds Sutherland and her role includes managing the Knowledge Team (which is responsible for legal and business research, subscription resources and hardcopy library collections, supporting Insite, our internal Knowledge Management system and current awareness strategy), co-ordinating knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training p
Knowledge for Eversheds Sutherland and her role includes managing the
Knowledge Team (which is responsible for legal and business research, subscription resources and hardcopy library collections, supporting Insite, our internal Knowledge Management system and current awareness strategy), co-ordinating knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training p
Knowledge Team (which is responsible for
legal and business
research, subscription resources and hardcopy library collections, supporting Insite, our internal
Knowledge Management system and current awareness strategy), co-ordinating knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training p
Knowledge Management system and current awareness strategy), co-ordinating
knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training p
knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training programme.
Prior to her
Knowledge Manager role, Catherine was a Senior Information Officer managing the Information Services team in the Manchester office, undertaking
legal and business
research, setting up current awareness alerts, online resource training and supporting regional collection management.
My
knowledge management colleague Ted Tjaden has published a list of useful resources entitled
Legal Research and Writing, which includes a number of Canadian references, although it would seem that his list has not been updated for a while.
Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of
legal services as agents to North American lawyers at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are document review or analysis, large drafting projects or
legal research or client bulletins that do not require specific «local»
knowledge).
This is the 28th International Conference on
Legal Knowledge and Information Systems providing a «forum for academics and practitioners for the advancement of cutting edge
research in the interface between law and computer technology.»
When the
research was conducted by a
research consultant with little
knowledge of the
legal publishing industry, the questionnaires usually included simple questions intended to educate the researcher.
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legal research &
knowledge management: Westlaw,
legal research, legislative, and case law resources; West km,
knowledge management services for lawyers;
While his
research leads to a broader point, what it brought home for me was the
legal delineation of the public sphere as a place where
knowledge is established though the presentation of evidence.
My groups have titles like Canadian Association of Law Libraries,
Knowledge Management for
Legal Professionals, Law Firm
Research Managers, Law Firm
Knowledge Management (a subgroup of
Legal IT Netowrk), and so on.
Again, unless someone else with direct
knowledge of the
legal agreements and patents adds an anseer, or you do in - depth
research, it's a guess.
A significant aspect of the mandate of the commission will be to make the justice system more accessible and equitable by using modern technologies to collect and distribute
legal knowledge and
research.
Personally I don't mind my email address being given out, it's fairly public
knowledge and a bit of marketing
research would find it quite quickly but I understand the value of a name and email address if
legal IT is new to someone.
She will be introducing current
legal research, document review and
knowledge management tools.
International Business Law Consortium is an international alliance of select law firms with an impeccable reputation for service - oriented professionalism, having been repeatedly ranked in the first tier (Band 1) by the Leading Law Firm Network section of Chambers Global; promoting and disseminating
knowledge in a cross-border and transnational manner, IBLC was established in 1996 by the Center for International
Legal Studies (CILS), a reputed law
research, training, and teaching institute, founded in 1976 in Salzburg, Austria; currently, IBLC brings together over 80 members represented by independent law, tax and consultancy firms ranked by Chambers and
Legal 500, whilst having a strong presence in Europe and the USA, and consolidating its position in Asia and Africa as well.
Second,
legal writing center tutors can be taught the specifics of
legal writing assignments so that the tutoring is particularly useful to the students who come to the writing center.112 This
knowledge will allow the tutors to more competently evaluate the writers»
legal analysis, because they are aware of the relevant
research and underlying
legal principles.
In terms of
legal research and training, there's a reason both large
legal publishing houses are embracing this technology, thus unlocking the
knowledge base these systems need to thrive.
I am always amazed to read lapalissade like «[law firm libraries] are continuing to move beyond «traditional» library work, like
legal research, and into marketing and competitive intelligence, computer training and even
knowledge management projects.»
In the electronic world and dealing with folks who don't have
knowledge of legislation nor
legal research, they will easily just inform others that an online audit trail of electronic user activity and multiple versions, is good enough.
This is my hundredth Slaw posting and rather than post on
legal information,
research and the Technologies of access and
knowledge analysis, I'd like to think about slaw as a community of
knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings about taxonomies of
legal knowledge back in June en route to India.