Join Charity as she shares tips and shows you how to harness the full power of Google Scholar and other free online
legal research tools in our webinar «Google Scholar and Free Legal Research.»
«This is the most powerful suite of
legal research tools in the world to find what's most important.»
A review of
the legal research tool in it's new mobile format.
This detailed and analytical indexing system was a fundamental
legal research tool in the days before sophisticated online databases and search capabilities, and it continues to be a tremendously efficient and important way to research and find relevant Canadian caselaw online».
This is not a traditional
legal research tool in the sense that a law firm lawyer would use, but it does allow a corporate client a technology assisted solution for compliance with a myriad of local, regional and state - level regulations that are prone to change rapidly and with little notice.
The patented Interactive Timeline is the most advanced
legal research tool in the market — there's nothing else like it!
Not exact matches
Searching is a big part of
legal research, and I may be wrong about how much share google has
in it, but the couple of lawyers I know well enough to say use
tools that I doubt are counted
in trends.
While the policy notes that «New York's
legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs
tool to make the laws more accessible, and instituting an «open by default» policy
in the area of IT purchasing, data and
research.
Scientists doing dual use
research — beneficial work that may be misapplied for malicious purposes
in the wrong hands — need more
tools to help them understand the scientific, ethical and
legal issues surrounding their work, according to a AAAS - sponsored workshop report.
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.
Just as digital
legal research methods have come to dominate paper - based methods
in terms of speed and effectiveness, AI - based
tools represent the next step
in the evolution of
legal research.
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.
Those anomalies aside, the CARA AI - assisted
research tool strikes me as a major advance
in legal research.
And of course, we can render law review article results
in the Interactive Timeline, our first - of - its - kind data visualization
tool for
legal research.»
«
In the long - term we want to leverage the power of the
legal brief to create collaborative
tools and predictive analytics to help lawyers (especially solo practitioners) more effectively conduct
legal research.»
CARA — short for Case Analysis
Research Assistant — is an analytical
tool that automatically finds cases that are relevant to a
legal document but not cited
in the document.
Does having those insights
in respect of algorithms used
in research tools mean
legal researchers will be immediately comfortable putting their faith
in the
tool?
There are traditional
legal research tools that parse the numerical information
in court judgments into statistical information to guide decision making
in certain types of matters.
In a post here two months ago, I reported on the launch by
legal research service Fastcase of a new publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals,
legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow
tools.
The myriad of the Rules of Court and the flood of Forms dominate the cycle of all lawyers and Judges, and this is the toughest area for SRL»S to navigate and prepare because they have jobs and do not have the luxury of unlimited resources such as; a) Client Money b) Office supplies c) Secretaries d)
Legal Assistants e) The latest
in research tools at their disposal.
A recent 2014 U.S. Consumer
Legal Needs Survey by FindLaw revealed an increase in social media use as a research tool for legal consu
Legal Needs Survey by FindLaw revealed an increase
in social media use as a
research tool for
legal consu
legal consumers.
As I explained
in a post here last summer, CARA — short for Case Analysis
Research Assistant — is a
tool that automatically finds cases that are relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.
In short, the more that students know about legal analysis, the more confidently they will approach the research process, regardless of the tools they use or the order in which they use the
In short, the more that students know about
legal analysis, the more confidently they will approach the
research process, regardless of the
tools they use or the order
in which they use the
in which they use them.
The law, a discipline rooted
in texts, entered the world of computerized
legal research with full - text
tools.
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.
Nevertheless, for those engaged
in legal research, this is the default position from which to begin their work, despite the search engines deployed providing few, if any, advanced analytical
tools.
Once you specify the position you plan to take, search for relevant statutes
in your chosen
legal research tool, then search for cases
in your state or jurisdiction that refer to those statutes.
So while smaller players might make good use of plug and play
legal research AI
tools, they won't at least
in the foreseeable future be able to take advantage of other AI
tools.
«We are excited about using ROSS's AI
research tools at Penn State law, and hopefully beta testing new products
in our
Legal - Tech Virtual Lab.
There are a number of newly - published - or - soon - to - be published new editions or new titles
in the Canadian
legal literature that caught my eye as being useful
research tools.
The skills
in demand range from the basic
tools that lawyers use day to day, such as MS Word and Excel, to
legal research to leveraging artificial intelligence and understanding security and privacy issues.
It's obvious that AI will bring many new
tools to
legal work and
research (it already does), but our tendency to see it initially as something that will merely do an old job better is very similar to Kelly's examples
in the above quote.
To read more about the use of visualization
tools in legal research, see my ABA Journal article, Visual Law Services are Worth A Thousand Words — and Big Money.
For more on visualization
tools in legal research, see the article I wrote for the ABA Journal: Visual law services are worth a thousand words — and big money.
I write about some emerging innovators
in this area, such as Ravel, a
legal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the
legal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for
Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the
Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better
tools for delivering and educating about the law.
My
legal research career has taken me to several different settings
in different cities or jurisdictions, and one thing I have found interesting is that there has always been a stronger emphasis on some
tools in each of my workplaces.
In the second post, we took a closer look at how legal research and ediscovery are being impacted by AI; and in this final installment, we'll take a look at other AI tools and companies at work in areas of law toda
In the second post, we took a closer look at how
legal research and ediscovery are being impacted by AI; and
in this final installment, we'll take a look at other AI tools and companies at work in areas of law toda
in this final installment, we'll take a look at other AI
tools and companies at work
in areas of law toda
in areas of law today.
For lawyers, Clusty's ability to help hone
in on relevant results makes it a useful
tool for
legal and factual
research.
The good
legal research checklist is probably one
tool of many that a law librarian could bring to the
legal researcher early
in the game.
The
research showed that around 17 % of
in - house
legal advisers use no
legal software at all, two
in five — that's 40 % — are using just one
tool, and only around 10 % have access to four or more.
In the red corner was Andrew Arruda, the well - known AI advocate and co-founder of ROSS Intelligence, better known for its
legal research tool, but which had just announced the arrival of EVA, a system that appeared to have some similar capabilities to Casetext's CARA application.
In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (in material percentages at least) the AI - based tools that can supplement attorneys» traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting legal research (see here and here
In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (
in material percentages at least) the AI - based tools that can supplement attorneys» traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting legal research (see here and here
in material percentages at least) the AI - based
tools that can supplement attorneys» traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence
in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting legal research (see here and here
in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting
legal research (see here and here).
Some of the guests profiled
in our App Friday feature cite Fastcase app as an indispensable productivity
tool when they are
in the courtroom and need access to quick
legal research.
Despite the above limits, Twitter still has the potential to be an invaluable
research tool in the
legal profession.
The past two years have seen a surge of interest
in innovative
tools and
research results that make use of artificial intelligence for application
in the
legal domain.
QL and ecarswell are
tools which,
in my view, are necessary for currency and completeness and, when used
in as part of an informed, strategic approach to proper
legal research, are there to complement print
legal research (not as a replacement or even supplement).
The New Year is a great time to re-assess old
legal research tools and review new ones, so here's a look at some of the additions to and changes
in international
legal information resources
in the past couple of years.
It's a great
tool for lawyers interested
in cutting their
legal research costs.
As law students
in 1998, they created Sidebar Software, a company that markets the
legal -
research software
tool CiteIt!.
The company has three main offerings: Anvi Insight, which is the doc review
tool and is
in Beta testing; Anvi Intelligence, which is its
legal research tool based at present on local case law; and the third service line, Anvi Robot, which is a machine learning document generation
tool.