Traditionally, high prices for
legal research sources have discouraged students, nonprofit groups and concerned citizens from searching case law and statutes.
Go to ChessLaw and you will find a fairly substantial collection of links to cases, statutes and other
legal research sources.
There are some recent decisions of the Federal Court that acknowledge the necessity of using online
legal research sources and seem positioned to allow law firms to charge reasonable disbursements for them.
As an anonymous collaborative online encyclopedia, Wikipedia lacks the authority expected of
a legal research source.
For instance, we examined the strategic use of Twitter as
a legal research source, mainly for secondary information... [more]
Not exact matches
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source.
In the ISPU
research, 55 percent opposed the use of Shari`ah as a
legal source, while 10 percent said it should play a role.
In the USA, it is not possible to do such
research with Federal funding (e.g. NIH), and although some States have rules that would forbid it irrespective of funding
source, it would be
legal with non-federal funds (charities, foundations, companies, private, etc).
Perhaps, the most interesting thing about USEssayWriters.com is that it's 100 %
legal to purchase essay papers from us, because you can use the essays as a
source of ideas for your paper, as
research material for your own essays, or as a guide on how to format your paper following a specific citation style (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc..)
Here you'll find one of the easier
sources for do - it - yourself lawyering and
legal research.
The trends on other
sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and
legal) and
research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.
Is it a database of
legal informtion; fully developed secondary
sources;
research service; all of these or something more?
Legal research company Fastcase will announce a new utility tomorrow that enables one - click printing of any case from any
source on the Web or in any Microsoft Word document.
Rather than address the larger premise, simy want to note my personal opinion that, as an Internet researcher, I am thrilled that blawgers post case summaries — they provide another
source of free
legal research to mine.
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.
Here's a tip I always mention when I'm introducing students to the
legal research process: you will save time if you start by consulting the leading secondary
sources on your topic, rather than going straight to the legislation or case law.
While it may be true that «Not a day goes by without a
legal professional telling us that he or she relies almost entirely (or entirely) on CanLII for his or her primary law needs», and that it is a «practice enabler» for small firm or solo practitioner, it is not credible as a vehicle for serious
legal research other than a
source of recent cases.
Based on students» expression of interest and relevance to their
research topics, I also select various non-BC provincial and non-Canadian
legal research strategies and
sources.
We'll roll out the rest of our findings from this survey throughout the coming months, but in a broad sense, attorneys should keep in mind that the U.S.
legal consumer is continuing to move towards a mobile - centric online
research process that uses multiple
sources of information to influence their hiring decision.
Those who rely «almost entirely (or entirely)» on Canlii for primary
sources may depend on paper
sources for historic content — a perusal of
legal research with pinpoint citations to «page number (s)» would suggest such is the case because often content on the commercial databases don't include the page numbers from the original print text from which they were reproduced.
In fact, you don't even need a citation to retrieve a published case these days.33 And beyond the obvious benefits of ease and convenience, this is excellent news for
legal research professors; we no longer need to teach the nuts and bolts of navigating arcane
legal sources.
Where books put concrete corners around information, electronic
sources can seem to present the same information as seamlessly connected.36 Quite often, Internet researchers care less about the nature of the information
source than they do about its content.37 And even the fee - based
legal research providers no longer require researchers to make
source selections at the outset.
Given the changing landscape of technology and the availability of electronic
sources, what has changed in the way you think about the nature of
legal research?
Sources for
legal information in foreign countries are also available through articles and reports created by the foreign legal specialists in the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Research Ce
legal information in foreign countries are also available through articles and reports created by the foreign
legal specialists in the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Research Ce
legal specialists in the Law Library of Congress's Global
Legal Research Ce
Legal Research Center.
Mark Osbeck's visionary glimpse of the future posits that technological changes in non-traditional
sources mean that new forms of case forecasting will take center stage to transform the predictive analysis that is at the center of much
legal research.
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.»
The Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers (CTRL), an open
source community for
legal practitioners, today released the results from its annual Advanced Analytics
Research, revealing an uptick in analytics usage by in - house
legal departments.
After all, throughout undergraduate school — and perhaps even during masters» programs — that's the mindset: get «enough»
sources to write a paper; then write «enough» pages to meet the minimum.50 Of course, experienced lawyers know that
legal research isn't about getting some finite number of cases.
But most
legal research paradigms, both existing and proposed, retain a linear foundation.28 They dictate an order in which to consult
sources, or they suggest that
legal research can be reduced to a series of steps in a reasonably well - defined process.29 Through the eyes of the modern law student, such frameworks often appear neither intuitive nor efficient.
So, although finding
legal information has almost become a one - click process, intelligently using it remains a difficult skill to master.40 To understand
research and perform it well, students must be able to specifically identify a
legal source when they see one — in any medium — and they must learn to question the nature of everything that they turn up along the way.41 Even more fundamentally, they must understand exactly what authority governs a particular
legal issue.
Paradigms anchored too firmly to specific media,
sources, or linear models are becoming ineffective compasses for navigating the
legal research process in the information age.
As we have written before, the challenge of
legal research is no longer finding
sources, but rather the opposite — winnowing down from the mass of information that digital searching yields.
First, a framework focused on the order in which to take certain steps (or a «comprehensive» list of
sources to consult) suggests to the novice researcher that
legal research is yet another information - gathering endeavor.
With even the most traditional electronic -
research platforms looking more like Google every day, it is becoming increasingly difficult to force students to march through
legal sources in a particular order.95 In reality, such an approach can feel inconsistent with what is becoming the primary method by which they locate and process information.
I will be providing more examples of helpful websites that provide primary and secondary
sources regarding statutes, regulations, caselaw, executive orders, and more, in my ABA Premier Speaker Series webinar titled «How to Conduct Free
Legal Research Online,» on March 19, 2018.
Ohio Secondary
Sources Legal Research Guide: Includes practice books, encyclopedia, forms, news, blogs, suggestions for finding the elements of actions in Ohio, and more
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.
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.
I gave a presentation yesterday to some friends at the CBA Alberta
Research Lawyers North subsection on using social media sources for legal r
Research Lawyers North subsection on using social media
sources for
legal researchresearch.
Some users, more used to traditional methods of
legal research, bemoaned the inability to browse and drill down through topics and
sources.
Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination of the heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in
legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian
Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of
Sources for case law.
And
legal research is not just about «techniques» but also but knowledge of
sources, judgment and analysis and experience.
An increasing number of commercial and business - related disputes are being heard by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) up 20 % in the last year to 423, compared to 352 in 2014, according to
research from the
Legal Business of Thomson Reuters, the world's leading
source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
Good
legal research practice is to keep track of the
sources you have searched and what method you used.
Now, Laura Orr at Oregon
Legal Research offers another perspective on the Casemaker vs. Fastcase debate that she describes as «closed vs. open
source.»
Nor can you access secondary
sources and treatises, which are a great place to start
legal research.
1) Hypothesis # 1:
Legal researchers suffer less anxiety at the initiation stage of their
research if they consult a trained law librarian to discuss the issue and identify a
research strategy, including recommended
sources.
Here the real issue is the pain that comes with the loss of access to valued
sources of
legal information by the
legal research community and from the loss of purpose that comes from law libraries being unable to provide access to
legal information that is the reason for their existence.
For this reason, I decided to write a series of columns that will address particular
research materials or
sources of law or
legal information that, for one reason or another, I found myself using more in some settings than in others and that generally might be otherwise overlooked as excellent resources.
Similarly, the most significant technological advances in the next several years may take place not in the traditional domain of
legal research (i.e., in finding primary and secondary
sources), but rather in the complementary domain of case forecasting.