Sentences with phrase «of advanced legal research»

As such, I think there is still much work to be done in the field of Advanced Legal Research in our law schools.

(Part of advanced legal research course for law students) Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey

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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.

The research was conducted by Shelia R. Cotten, PhD, of Michigan State University; George Ford, PhD, of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies; Sherry Ford, PhD, of the University of Montevallo; and Timothy M. Hale, PhD, of the Center for Connected Health and Harvard Medical School.

The Exeter and Greenpeace research team say there are «many questions and uncertainties» around seabed mining, including legal issues and the difficulties of predicting the scale and extent of impacts in advance, and of monitoring and regulating mining activity once it takes place in the deep sea.

Bethesda, Md., Tues., May 17, 2016 - Four new grants from the National Institutes of Health will support research on the ethical, legal and social questions raised by advances in genomics research and the increasing availability of genomic information.

Cornell offers basic and advanced legal research courses of three credits each, as well as several specialized topics, such as International and Foreign research, and Law Practice Technology which can be one or two credits.

These Google Scholar advanced legal research tips will explain some of the strengths and weaknesses of Google Scholar and how you can use it to save yourself and your clients some money.

BriefMine is a database of legal briefs and opinions powered by natural - language search that offers a technologically advanced platform for conducting in - depth legal research.

In October 2010, I wrote about the roll - out of Lexis Advance for Solos, the flat - rate legal research platform targeted at one - and two - lawyer firms.

In one of our later advanced legal research and writing class of the term, we turned our attention from traditional primary and secondary material to alternative or less - expected legal research resources.

The Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers (CTRL), an open source community for legal practitioners, today released the results from its annual Advanced Analytics Research, revealing an uptick in analytics usage by in - house legal departments.

«We are excited to present our annual research demonstrating the use and proliferation of advanced analytics in the legal community,» said Philip Favro, director of legal education and resources at CTRL.

To learn more about CTRL's Advanced Analytics Research, join the webinar «Analytics, Automation, AI: The Effect on Corporate Legal» that will be held on February 16, 2017, from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. CST with panelists Barclay T. Blair of the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) and Dean Gonsowski of CTRL.

Lexis today is formally announcing the next - iteration of its next - generation legal research platform, Lexis Advance.

There are now over 800 lawyers in the UK working for «virtual» law firms as advances in technology drive the rise of a new business model in the legal sector, shows new research by Hazlewoods, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors who specialise in the legal profession.

The new tool became available today as part of a package of updates to the LexisNexis legal research service Lexis Advance.

This finding comes out of research performed by Susan Nevelow Mart, director of the law library and associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School, where she teaches advanced legal research and analysis and environmental legal research.

Similarly, the most significant technological advances in the next several years may take place not in the traditional domain of legal research (i.e., in finding primary and secondary sources), but rather in the complementary domain of case forecasting.

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.

The more difficult calculation was using this archive not only to preserve and document our past but as an instrument actively to advance research into Osgoode's legacy of innovation and leadership and its impact on the legal profession.

There's a new edition available of The Legal Research Dictionary: from Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, from Legal Information Services in North Carolina.

The application of advanced analytics to any number of areas of legal research and legal knowledge development are interesting.

«The attorneys surveyed placed advanced legal research skills alongside drafting pleadings and motions as the skills both «most needed» and «most lacking» in litigation practice,» according to Nota Bene, a blog by the librarians at the University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.

In a statement announcing the award, Greg Lambert, AALL president, said, «As leaders of legal research best practices and advanced technology tools, our members recognize the value of powerful litigation support resources.

Here's a link to a first chapter by the Advanced Legal Research instructors at Stanford Law School in a work on the history of CALR.

After all, WestlawNext is the world's most advanced online legal research tool, and the focus of our product development — including new content, enhanced search and customization tools, as well as workflow and product integration strategies.

It followed that a year later with the formal launch in December 2011 of Lexis Advance, its next - generation legal research platform marked by a streamlined and simplified interface and Google - like universal -LSB-...]

If you already subscribe to Lexis or Westlaw, you can use Westlaw Next or Lexis Advance HD to access the full suite of legal research databases available through those providers.

It followed that a year later with the formal launch in December 2011 of Lexis Advance, its next - generation legal research platform marked by a streamlined and simplified interface and Google - like universal search.

Effective legal research always involves elements of advance planning, diligence and serendipity.

In what it says is an industry first for a legal research platform, LexisNexis today is launching a multimedia civil procedure practice guide within Lexis Advance that includes not only text but also a series of more than 150 short videos embedded within the content.

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I think part of the difficulty with teaching Advanced Legal Research to today's law students is their superficial facility with online search tools, such as Google.

One of the questions put to the panel in advance of the session was: «What kind of legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient in by the end of second or third year of law school?»

As part of its renewed approach to advancing access to justice, the CBA has released a 125 - page research report, Moving Forward on Legal Aid: Research on Needs and Innovative Appresearch report, Moving Forward on Legal Aid: Research on Needs and Innovative AppResearch on Needs and Innovative Approaches.

Trying to find out the pricing structure of LEXIS and WESTLAW contracts with law firms so that we could explain them to our Advanced Legal Research students has been rather like asking the descendants of Colonel Sanders for his secret recipe.

The companion course I taught included coverage of the substantive law in the major legal research assignments in the first - year course, sessions on working with upper - level students and scholarly legal writers, and advanced training in working with non-native English speakers.

One of the questions put to the panel in advance of the session was: «What kind of legal research skills should law school students be highly proficient in by... [more]

(August 2013) BriefMine - BriefMine is a database of legal briefs and opinions powered by natural - language search that offers a technologically advanced platform for conducting in - depth legal research.

Welcome to LandWise, the industry's most comprehensive source of legal materials, articles, and research for policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and advocates working to advance women's land rights.

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He teaches Advanced Legal Research, coordinates the library's instance of LibGuides, and occasionally feels frustrated trying to keep up with how the internet affects information.

Before joining Miami Law, she taught Constitutional Law at the University of Miami and advanced legal research and writing at Florida International University College of Law.

As a member of the Miami Law faculty, she teaches Legal Communication and Research Skills and upper - level courses on Guantánamo legal issues and advanced writing techniLegal Communication and Research Skills and upper - level courses on Guantánamo legal issues and advanced writing technilegal issues and advanced writing techniques.

Other Research Skills Presentations: 4 - Primary legal research II - Researching Case Law 5 - Articles as a source of law 6 - Guide to using PacLII.org 7 - Guide to using Lexis 8 - Guide to using Westlaw 9 - Advanced Guide to using the internetResearch Skills Presentations: 4 - Primary legal research II - Researching Case Law 5 - Articles as a source of law 6 - Guide to using PacLII.org 7 - Guide to using Lexis 8 - Guide to using Westlaw 9 - Advanced Guide to using the internetresearch II - Researching Case Law 5 - Articles as a source of law 6 - Guide to using PacLII.org 7 - Guide to using Lexis 8 - Guide to using Westlaw 9 - Advanced Guide to using the internet - incl.

With the objective of advancing legal governance and serving societal needs, the Formosan Brothers Foundation was set up in 2007 to expand legal resources in Taiwan by offering research opportunities and fellowships.

This one - credit advanced legal research seminar will introduce students to specific sources and strategies for researching health and medical legal topics, including the right to health care, pharmaceutical and medical device regulation, Stark and anti-trust laws as applied to the health care industry, medical malpractice and standards of care, and medical ethics and experimentation.

The role of compassion in legal practice is the subject of three half - day symposia being run by the Law and Compassion Research Network, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies fromlegal practice is the subject of three half - day symposia being run by the Law and Compassion Research Network, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies fromLegal Studies from May.

The technologies that contribute to the successful running of a legal business, such as legal research platforms and case management systems, are more advanced in their development.