The commentary explaining the process emphasizes the iterative
nature of legal research, and is reflective of the real research process.
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?
The week features a mix of reflective pieces on
the nature of legal research and writing and the teaching and learning of the same in legal education, and substantive posts students wrote about their major memo legal research.
Not exact matches
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect
of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels
of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments
of the aerospace industry, levels
of air travel, financial condition
of commercial airlines, the impact
of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition
of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization
of the anticipated benefits
of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope,
nature, impact or timing
of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition
of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration
of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization
of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels
of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and
research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability
of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope
of future repurchases
of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level
of other investing activities and uses
of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition
of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery
of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits
of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits
of diversification and balance
of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome
of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact
of the negotiation
of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect
of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect
of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect
of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition
of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits
of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing
of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence
of events that may give rise to a right
of one or both
of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee
of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million
of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects
of the announcement or the completion
of the merger on the market price
of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation
of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value
of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability
of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and
nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent
legal research group, called the John Jay Report.
In a written statement UB said, the proposal «is inconsistent with the interdisciplinary
nature of legal education and
research.»
And this
Nature paper is just the beginning
of the
research the report contemplated, says
legal scholar and bioethicist R. Alta Charo
of the University
of Wisconsin Law School, who co-chaired the Academies» committee but says she is speaking for herself and not the panel.
If asked to identify some
of the major milestones
of the past century that have changed the
nature of legal practice, I'd put the development
of computerized
legal research systems such as Lexis in my top five.
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.
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.
Like the fabled artefact, delving into complex
legal research, especially on issues
of reform can often lead to unexpected and difficult results - or lead one down a rabbit hole
of questions - but instead
of shying away from these challenges, the Women and the Law Society saw Pandora's Box as a means
of celebrating the inquisitive and critical
nature of the
legal mind.
Research into the
nature and scale
of unmet
legal need and into the phenomena
of self represented litigants, makes it clear... [more]
lexis is our professional content management lexis is the study
of vocabulary in lexis is no more available lexis is an online service that provides a wide range
of full lexis is focus lexis is available to all law students lexis is closed or phone line is bad lexis is a library with newspaper lexis is available via the web for students at www lexis is http lexis is a 5 year old tri girl lexis is a large electronic database lexis is available from the albert sloman library website at lexis is an exciting and challenging new word game that can be played by sighted lexis is arranged hierarchically into libraries and files lexis is available via the internet at http lexis is working on the displayed request lexis is my goodest friend from back in the day lexis is not such a great form
of researching lexis is under new hardline lexis is a
legal research database paid for by the paralegal department at the university
of great falls lexis is a privately owned company and its top management consists
of the owners who are also investors lexis is a strange mix
of the three games lexis is available in the tax learning center lexis is launching a major transition
of their billing system lexis is giving the student a biased perspective on the
research lexis is offering appellate advocacy training the week
of september 16th lexis is now offering prizes for attending class lexis is an idea that crosses tetris with scrabble lexis is available on the web at http lexis is american in origin lexis is formalized below using syntactic metalanguage lexis is one
of the world's leading online
legal research service designed for use by lawyers and accountants lexis is «a good lexis is available to all qut staff and students for 2002 lexis is not an expert system giving you the answer to a problem lexis is feeling the sting
of competition and decided it had to have a better web lexis is updated daily lexis is one
of the two standard law data bases and provides full text
of almost all
legal decisions in the united states and several european countries lexis is a computer lexis is a computer assisted
legal research service that provides access to databases covering primary and secondary
legal and lexis is a massive collection
of legal databases which includes over 650 full text
legal journals lexis is a massive collection
of legal and news databases owned by reed elsevier lexis is a collection
of full lexis is beschikbaar op de publieks lexis is available at the public pc in front
of the information desk on the 1st floor lexis is made up
of a number
of different databases lexis is available via the university dial lexis is te vergelijken met een zelfstandige juridische bibliotheek op het gebied van amerikaans recht lexis is a comprehensive online information service containing the full text
of legislation and case lexis is the most comprehensive site for online
legal research lexis is blind and will need special care lexis is not a common term but is primarily associated with the services offered by complainant lexis is a paper exchange programme that our department participates in with several english departments in ontario and quebec lexis is and particularly how it is different from «vocabulary lexis is the basis
of language lexis is probably less well known lexis is now advertising lexisone on law lexis is continued until graduation lexis is determined to carry on with similar community projects for future lexis is used extensively to provide
legal information lexis is closed or lexis is a french lexis is only permitted lexis is less sophisticated than westlaw lexis is concerned lexis is designed to keep out
of the way
of the candidate as much as possible lexis is open to all areas
of literary study lexis is available from most
of the other subject categories as well lexis is remarkably homogenous in
nature lexis is similar to westlaw in coverage lexis is licensed by west group to use its star pagination system lexis is an exciting new twist on the «falling blocks» classic concept familiar to most gamers lexis is free and unlimited lexis is restricted to educational use only lexis is great for ferreting out story ideas and background
research lexis is owned by darlene zapp & willis alford
of fairbury lexis is a large collection
of computerised
legal information lexis is a full text database covering a wide range
of legal information sources including case law lexis is a good starting point lexis is a
legal information retrieval system lexis is giving away 100 lexis is introduced by a full colour illustration which means the learner will remember the word much more easily lexis is a
legal information system lexis is prepared to offer the same kind
of limited password as westlaw for first lexis is available to people with lexis passwords lexis is known as star pagination lexis is an amazing twist on the classic «falling blocks» game concept lexis is easier via the web than via its graphical software lexis is a literal search engine lexis is better for that lexis is a full range market
research institute which operates on
In light
of the increasingly interdisciplinary
nature of academic
research, especially in the
legal academy, wouldn't it be preferable if we abandoned currently accepted
legal citation practices for secondary resources, both print and online, and just used the MLA style?
PIC (PSS) is involved in development
of the Child, Family and Community Services Act 1996 Steering committees develop in various locations around the Lower Mainland 2000 Name
of organization changes to Parent Support Services Society
of BC (PSS) to better reflect the positive solution focused work
of the organization 2001 First Grandparent Raising Grandchildren Circle begins 2005 First Grand Gathering is held in Victoria; First edition
of the monthly Village newsletter and resource guide for the North is produced 2007 PSS initiates the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Legal Research Project in partnership with the University
of Victoria 2008 The first
Nature camp for Grandfamilies takes place on Galiano Island 2009 PSS publishes GRG
Legal Guide.
To understand the impact
of technology on
legal research, we first need to consider the
nature of the
legal reasoning process.
«[T] echnology is particularly well suited for
legal education, and especially for
legal research and writing instruction, because the
nature of law practice is becoming increasingly technical.»
Any effective
legal research process, then, must take into account the ill - structured
nature of many — if not most —
legal problems.
Ms Best, a noted
research lawyer, reviews three recent Canadian books on
legal research and then goes on to offer some wise thoughts
of a more general
nature on
research tools.
I think Canadian researchers, be they academic or not, would benefit from knowing the scope and
nature of other
legal research initiatives and publications in Canada.
Research shows that
legal problems are often mixed with a range
of related social and other issues, and people facing a cluster
of issues may not even recognize that their problem is
legal in
nature.
The
nature of work that can be outsourced is varied and includes document review, document drafting,
legal research, due diligence, and much more.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare and revise
legal correspondence and memos • Focused on handling highly confidential information with discretion and integrity • Committed to organizing and prioritizing cases according to their
nature of urgency • Adept at handling
research work using
legal references and Internet resources • Particularly effective in maintaining attorneys» schedules and handling appointments • Familiar with court rules and filing procedures and making service on opposing parties • Proficient in using online services such as Westlaw and Lexis for
legal research information • Documented success in generating revenue by documenting and inputting attorney's billable time and reimbursable expenses • Strong organizational skills aimed at ensuring that clerical and administrative support is constantly available to attorneys • Qualified to dig out precedence information and assist in building up cases • Expert user
of Power Point, Word and Excel to assist in creating presentations, handling correspondence needs and developing spreadsheets • Exceptional knowledge
of using email applications to correspond with clients and ability to type 90 words per minute