Attorneys are expected to perform the same duties as other legal professionals
like doing legal research, writing briefs and arguing cases in the court.
Not exact matches
At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific
research, and we
do this just
like every other high - quality health care provider
does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and
legal standards.
Especially given the complexities inherent in the world today (and therefore the depth of detail,
legal obscurities, and the
like represented in actual legislation), the ordinary voter in a democracy may find his or her time better spent on other activities than
doing enough
research in order to form an opinion on each potential piece of legislation.
NEFW was co-created by AAE and the Nevada Policy
Research Institute (NPRI) because labor unions
like the NEA don't inform their members of their
legal rights to opt - out of membership, leaving millions of teachers and other employees completely unaware that they have options.
Malcolm is being targeted by a
legal nonprofit organization that doesn't
like the results of his
research.
Yes, law school
does a good job at training you to «think
like a lawyer» and spot issues,
do legal research, draft
legal documents, and put together a
legal argument.
I don't know about you, but I
like my
legal research materials to be a little more timely than that.
Oftentimes, industries
like the law are slow to adopt many of the new mediums where prospects are
doing their
legal research,
like blogs or social media.
In return, I will be teaching the student how to
do legal research, as well as giving the student some insight into the
legal industry, how to prepare for and succeed in law school, what bar exams and campus recruitment processes are
like, and what comes after law school.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised —
legal research doesn't hold the appeal of some topics,
like constitutional or criminal law.
Like, I don't... It's more like nobody did online legal research and then a decade or two later, everybody did online legal resea
Like, I don't... It's more
like nobody did online legal research and then a decade or two later, everybody did online legal resea
like nobody
did online
legal research and then a decade or two later, everybody
did online
legal research.
New companies
like Judicata are reforming the way
legal research is
done.
I would
like to know what others are
doing in their
legal research, however, and propose a survey of sorts.
While significant cloud - based eDiscovery and
legal research tools
like Nextpoint and Fastcase
did not seem to register with respondents as being cloud services, the most popular
legal - specific cloud products named by respondents included the following list of practice management cloud services: Clio (16.5 percent), RocketMatter (3.4 percent), MyCase (1.7 percent), and Bill4Time (1.7 percent).
More
like gradual change — and you can still find law books in every law library that work perfectly well for
doing legal research.
I would
like to invite Slaw's readers to embark on a «Chautauqua»; a voyage to explore, not just what is available to the
legal researcher, but what good
legal research is and how it can be
done.
The problem really boils
done to the reality that
legal research is very much a skill, and
like any skill if you don't practice and use it, then you will lose the skill and have to relearn some of it.
Second, the Model Rule doesn't mention core competencies,
like knowing how to perform
legal research or how to interpret the Rules of Civil Procedure.
Legal research innovators
like Fastcase and RavelLaw have
done that hard work, and added visualizations to improve the utility of results.
I
do not
like the format used in the printable version of the «
Legal Research Process.»
Like medical patients, they increasingly come having
done their own amateur
legal research — a startling development made possible by
legal information on the internet and not just the profusion of law - based TV shows.
If you would
like additional
legal research assistance, please
do not hesitate to call the reference desk at 305-284-3585, e-mail us, or visit the library.
Well, just
like when I
did basic
legal research (as a naive young associate), I scanned the search results to see if they had any useful verbiage, or otherwise provided helpful clues.
I think there's always going to be room for them maybe in the secondary market or in workflow or things
like that, but I
do think that there is that — in the same way that Starbucks made coffee a lot more accessible to people and created a lot more coffee drinkers and made the experience more enjoyable and really kind of raised the floor for coffee in America, I think there's room for a company
like Fastcase to raise the floor for everybody to make
legal research something that isn't intimidating, that partners can
do and young associates can
do and law students can
do in a compelling, powerful way and without being afraid.
the problem seemed apparent: Clients need
legal research, but they increasingly can't — or won't — pay for it
like they once
did.
I
do, however,
like to use Evernote to store
legal research.
In
legal research, the hardest work is «practical implementation against good data at scale;»
legal research innovators
like Fastcase and RavelLaw have already
done that work, and are adding visualization to enhance its usefulness.
What
does articling readiness specific to
legal research look
like?
The
research found that over half (57 %) of workers in the
legal industry would
like to see the Government
do more to promote their physical and mental wellbeing.
It might sound
like a lot of buzz - words, but when you think about it, the reason we conduct
legal research is to obtain a result that allows us to take action, or advise others on what they should
do next.
As I see it, Google's free
legal research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time, Â Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers
like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the law library and manual
research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.
I mean, can you imagine what it'd be
like to still
do legal research with actual books?
I've been
doing research on LLCs and it seems
like forming an LLC will not 100 % relieve us of
legal responsibility of a transaction gone wrong.
Looking at
research repositories
like those at NELLCO or the Berkeley Electronic Press there doesn't seem to be any equivalent repository for Canadian
legal research projects or papers - in - progress.
I subscribe to GagoOm Pro and you
do great
research... why stoop to pretending you
did Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and months of
legal fees
like privco then delete your paying users for calling you out on it?
So at the beginning it is
legal, because they claimed that they wanted to
do a
research project about the psychological effects, something
like that.
For instance, you can be extremely commercial and not have to
do any
legal research in big departments
like banking and corporate, or you can have very technical and
legal work in more niche departments
like tax.
At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific
research, and we
do this just
like every other high - quality health care provider
does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and
legal standards.