Sentences with phrase «many research lawyers»

Even if you aren't completely sure that you wish to begin divorce proceedings, it's a good idea to begin researching lawyers early.

This popular textbook by research lawyer Rosemary Bocska and Toronto lawyer and frequent REM contributor Martin Rumack is now in its fourth edition.

Here in Manitoba, we have opted for a core group of experienced staff research lawyers, supplemented by third year law students who clerk with the Court for law school credit.

His firm had a few designated research lawyers, whom he described as very knowledgeable and productive:

Needed are career - oriented experienced legal research lawyers, specialized in each area of the practice of law, working in a national legal research unit serving all lawyers and judges in Canada — a national service provided by an upgraded CanLII.

From my experience, with the electronic tools now available, the gap is closing between the research lawyer and the competent student.

Therefore, Ontario's Law Society of Upper Canada's Certified Specialist Board program should become a national program and the legal research lawyer should be made a certified career specialty.

The police do not have a duty to research your lawyer's credentials, and don't have to go online and look your attorney up in the bar directory to make it easier for him or her to get to you.

For instance, [one of the firm's research lawyer's] billable rate was three times mine [as a Summer Student].

It might take her twice as long as a research lawyer, but she will cost less than half per hour.

While a research lawyer at a small Edmonton firm in the mid-90s, she managed the library and helped build a knowledge management system.

Our medical research lawyers recognize that quality health care begins with excellent medical research.

I gave a presentation yesterday to some friends at the CBA Alberta Research Lawyers North subsection on using social media sources for legal research.

[133] Resource allocation obviously also addresses where the firm spends its money: lawyer support services (including professional support lawyers, libraries and knowledge management systems, research lawyers), business development budgets (including large marketing departments), professional development staff and programs (including internal programs within large firms, which may be delivered by outside consultants, as well as sending associates to various programs), as well as art and office furnishings.

There is a reason most law firms bill their students at a much lower rate - a senior legal research lawyer can be more effective and efficient than a student.

We were discussing the role of the research lawyer in law firms the other day.

Those with dual degrees are also desirable in some law firms for research lawyer and knowledge management positions.

I'm open to suggestions from a research lawyer as to how educators can help to solve these problem.

So I would challenge research lawyers in other provinces, where there is not yet a dedicated section of the bar association for legal research, to take the initiative and create such a section.

Taking into account that our research lawyers and administrative staff are allowed to take summer vacation, here's a list of some of the other activities that have occurred in the last couple of months and will take us to the end of the summer:

Our discussion this time around focused on the frustration some research lawyers still feel in their role not being fully understood by others in their law firm or by clients.

Legal research lawyers of course have one nice «example» to rely on, being the success that Bertha Wilson had in setting up Oslers» legal research department, as discussed numerous times on SLAW including here.

In his post, Ted mentioned the oft - cited example of Bertha Wilson, the former research lawyer who, as we all know, went on to be a highly respected Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Justice.

When I left private practice to become a full - time research lawyer, I missed having a section that specifically related to my area of practice.

Ultimately, perhaps there is some onus on legal research lawyers to better market their services within their firms and to educate clients on their role.

It seems that two years ago almost to the date, I mentioned here on SLAW the discussions of an informal group of Toronto research lawyers surrounding the role of research lawyers in law firms.

In an incident cautionary to live - tweeters, a research lawyer in the US was fired this week for posting tweets that were «not appropriate,» given the particular context.

It all started when I complained to Darla Rettie, another legal research lawyer in Winnipeg, about the lack of legal research resources available through the bar association.

It's up to you to research any lawyer you're thinking about hiring.

This column takes a slightly different path from our banter at that meeting but, in essence, rests on one of the same themes: the role of research lawyers in firms today.

Similar functions to those of law firm research lawyers are also carried out by dedicated individuals in government departments, courts, tribunals, and other organizations; these persons... [more]

For example, legal research, as a specialized support service provided by career research lawyers, is a far more competent and cost - efficient way of producing legal opinions than relying of students» legal research.

- looks as though it will be impetus for some lively debates amongst practicing lawyers (I think the Toronto Research Lawyers will be discussing the case at their April meeting).

Alejandro (Alex) Manevich, the multi-talented research lawyer at Ogilvy Renault in Toronto, writes to say that he likes our CanLII Find bookmarklet so much that he changed it.

Research lawyer Matthew Oleynik and his team have analysed and tagged thousands of sentencing cases, double checking their results with computer indexing, to create a database from which relevant precedents can be easily retrieved.

Remember to use truncation, synonyms, various spellings & misspellings; check syntax rules for different databases; come see one of the research lawyers in advance and we'll help you structure your searches for online databases;

Googling your legal issue: None of the research lawyers polled have found this to be a successful strategy, except in rare instances, eg.

Research lawyers today.

When I was a practicing research lawyer, MLB was my go - to resource for particular issues and I taught it to students as such.

[2] As its first Director of Research, beginning in July 1979, I developed its technology of centralized legal research, which involves specialization as an on - going process in regard to: (1) its research lawyers; (2)... [more]

43 % of clients use online reviews to research lawyers.

Kendra and I connected through the CBA Research Lawyers South section meeting where I shared some tips on using social media sites for legal research.

I'd like everyone's feedback on an issue that arises from time to time when I talk with other research lawyers in Calgary.

Matthew Oleynik is a Toronto research lawyer and the founder of rangefindr.ca, a Canadian sentencing research service.

Needed are specialist legal research lawyers for each major area of law.

-- call the research lawyer or KM lawyer to point us in the right direction, and who often points us to either exactly the person we need to talk to or the exact set of documents we need.

Law firms maintain «research lawyers» whose job is partly to practise law but primarily to provide compelling legal research.

Founder Matthew Oleynik, a Toronto - based research lawyer with a criminal law background, says the tool started as a «personal project» after he become «annoyed» at the limited information available on sentencing.

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.

I've told others in the Research Lawyers section in Calgary about it, from your posting, Michael, and several seemed interested.