Sentences with phrase «methods of legal research»

This is particularly true as law schools now tend to focus their teaching on online methods of legal research.

Some users, more used to traditional methods of legal research, bemoaned the inability to browse and drill down through topics and sources.

While law libraries are not extinct, electronic legal research prevails as the most common method of legal research.

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Using standard legal research methods, Beletsky and his collaborators systematically searched legal databases to determine whether naloxone administration in the out - of - hospital setting has been the grounds for a lawsuit.

Other research interests include data mining using high - dimensional and sparse (regularized) methods, with a focus on text summarization and causal inference with text in contexts such as newspaper corpora, legal decisions, and databases of free - text reports.

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.

I started LAO LAW in 1979, and therefore know the purpose and power of support services methods of production, and the technology of centralized legal research.

In the support - services method, legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists in doing legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured for use in future research projects.

I developed these methods as part of the technology of centralized legal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal research at LAO LAW, Legal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare moLegal Aid Ontario's (LAO's) centralized legal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal research unit for Ontario lawyers in private practice who service legal aid cases (a judicare molegal aid cases (a judicare model).

Beginning in July 1979, LAO LAW avoided using the profession's handcraftsman's method of providing legal research services, while CanLII in its present form serves to perpetuate the handcraftsman's method.

The support services method of production is not limited to legal research products.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

One of the goals of the curricular overhaul was to strengthen the required legal analysis, writing, and research components of the curriculum.20 After discussing a number of ways to do so, the committee recommended that the required curriculum be changed by replacing first - semester Legal Method and second - semester Introduction to Appellate Advocacy with an expanded three - semester sequence21 of courses entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - year colegal analysis, writing, and research components of the curriculum.20 After discussing a number of ways to do so, the committee recommended that the required curriculum be changed by replacing first - semester Legal Method and second - semester Introduction to Appellate Advocacy with an expanded three - semester sequence21 of courses entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - yearresearch components of the curriculum.20 After discussing a number of ways to do so, the committee recommended that the required curriculum be changed by replacing first - semester Legal Method and second - semester Introduction to Appellate Advocacy with an expanded three - semester sequence21 of courses entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - year coLegal Method and second - semester Introduction to Appellate Advocacy with an expanded three - semester sequence21 of courses entitled Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - year coLegal Analysis, Writing, and Research (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - yearResearch (LAWR) I, II, and III.22 These expansions retained Maryland's commitment to having the first - semester course taught by full - time faculty, but a big change in the new first - semester course, LAWR I, was that it was not joined to another first - year course.

Call it, perhaps, «research skills and methods for the lawyer» and provide a solid grounding in all of the traditional and modern legal research techniques but also branch out into the literature of other disciplines and the challenging breadth of the Internet.

Our teaching methods need to get students out of the glass cockpit so that they actually think while doing legal research.

This part first locates empirical methods within the existing fields of legal writing scholarship and then offers an overview of the three empirical research strategies: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research.

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.

Each part describes key features of each research method and illustrates those features by describing prior empirical studies of legal writing.

Like other university departments that research developments in science, we can research and develop new methods of delivering legal services and access to justice that could be exploited commercially later on.

A law graduate, he teaches legal research methods at both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information at U of T.

Last year, the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (CRILF) and the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) sent out a survey to family lawyers in Canada to get a sense of legal professionals» preferences around dispute resolution methods and the costs associated with these various avenues.

Good legal research practice is to keep track of the sources you have searched and what method you used.

These practices — legal citation and casebooks — are but two among many that would encourage a re-evaluation of our legal information processes and the way we teach and practice legal research at the institutional level in light of methods that are not only fairer and more accessible but perhaps even more responsive to and reflective of the realities of legal education and practice, and that address the needs of a public hungry for legal information.

The majority of law firm partners favour the traditional hourly rate model as a more accurate way of billing, despite a continued push from clients to use fixed fees and other alternative billing methods, according to Legal Week research.

Do we teach research methods that encourage effective and confident use of alternative approaches to and resources for legal research?

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

There is also a risk of overburdening legal writing professors who will have to develop at least basic expertise in the international and foreign legal systems and methods of research involved in such additional components.

My argument is that printed law reports are an anachronism and do not meet the needs of contemporary legal practice, scholarly research methods or library / information management.

Obviously it was designed to perpetuate the existing method of delivering legal services by making it more conveniently used — the «handcraftsman's method,» instead of a «support services method» of delivering legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal services by making it more conveniently used — the «handcraftsman's method,» instead of a «support services method» of delivering legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal services as does LAO LAW (the centralized legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-legal research unit at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-Legal Aid Ontario (LAO)-RRB-.

Our highly developed Artificial Intelligence platforms improves the execution of legal research, compared to the use of traditional methods.

In addition to legal research, there are many other specialized support services that can be provided with such expert advice, including the automation of routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client services and satisfaction.

In administering the program, the Director will participate in the hiring, orientation, training, and evaluation of legal research and writing instructors; participate in the orientation of incoming first - year law students; prepare the syllabi and the common writing problems used by all legal research and writing sections; chair regular meetings of the legal research and writing instructors to discuss course content, teaching methods, and related issues; handle student issues related to the program; oversee the selection of legal research and writing award recipients; coordinate legal research and writing with the broader curriculum in conjunction with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; and perform other related administrative duties as assigned.

When it comes to legal research, it would appear a black box problem also isn't 100 % avoidable, but in my opinion, new artificial intelligent methods being developed today, especially those using deep learning and neural nets, have the best chance of solving our legal research woes, especially considering its plummeting recovery rates, but then again, I'm biased... I'm one of the founders of ROSS Intelligence after all.

The difference in the two methods is exemplified by the cost - efficiency of a centralized legal research unit servicing lawyers in private practice who provide free legal services to legal aid clients (poor people).

Tutor in various law subjects, including property, delict, Roman law, legal history, public law and legal research methods, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Oxford, 2002, 2003 and 2006.

The questionnaire specifically focuses on lawyer's perceptions of judicial behavior and can be used in a variety of ways, including a method of garnering feedback and as a basis for empirical legal research.

Conducting legal research and analysis is but one small bullet point under Conducting Matters in the list of learning objectives and the ELLA program is but one method of starting to build competency in this area.

He hails from the innovation hub of Stanford Law School and is advancing next - generation methods of graphical legal research, as well as advocating for the free law movement.

Common law legal concepts and research methods make a strong distinction, less pronounced in the civil law tradition, between primary sources of law (statutes and case law) and secondary sources (legal scholarship and commentary); regardless, access to interpretive commentary on the law, including legal scholarship and especially publicly - funded research, would significantly enhance the public's understanding of the law and their rights, and promote access to legal services generally.

Nevertheless LAO LAW remains a true support service, using the same technology of centralized legal research that provides a method of production that should be applied to many other types of lawyer's work besides legal research.

In contrast, the legal profession uses a handcraftsman's method of production without any specialized support services (except for the vendors of law books and electronic research services).

The «Review» Stage of Electronic Discovery: The greatly increased cost of electronic discovery proceedings, produced by the increased volume of electronic records created by the great automation capacity of electronic records technology, should be dealt with the way legal research methods deal with even greater volumes of legal publications.

Any data arrived at through a decent research method for such a spread of jurisdictions has real potential to help teachers, legislators and lawyers who find themselves working across legal boundaries.

And it is necessary because «clerking» by law students and lawyers who are not career - oriented legal research lawyers should be considered to be an obsolete method of doing legal research, because it is the foundation of all legal advice services.

He teaches legal research methods at both the UofT Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information.

Powered by research at Chicago - Kent's Law Lab, our J.D. Certificate Program in Innovation and Technology emphasizes core competencies in quantitative methods and emerging technologies — predictive analytics, machine learning, process improvement and more — to make the delivery of legal services better and more efficient.

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