I have been interested in the search behaviour of lawyers in relation to the
organization of legal materials but I haven't had a chance to pursue this in any meaningful way.
While it is likely the free
databases of legal materials are improving, it is my impression, and my practice, to use the commercial databases for most of my comprehensive legal research.
Reasons for this include the ever - increasing price of real estate and the availability (both real and perceived)
of legal materials online.
As a result, the searching for and
reviewing of legal materials are done as one operation, applied to electronically stored indexes and summaries.
Its short statement that «An official publisher
of legal material in an electronic record that must be preserved under Section 7 shall ensure that the material is reasonably available for use by the public on a permanent basis» does not mandate free access and leaves too much leeway to remove material under «reasonable» conditions.
The 3 major requirements of any
collection of legal materials for re-use are: (1) to maximize cost - efficiency, catch all finished work - product in a single database.
This policy was my project for the class, in which I attempted to create a collection
of legal materials for a private law firm library in Wisconsin and was...
Why would Carswell / Thomson / McGill want to make the McGill guide free when the BCCA has recently mandated that the 7th ed will be the standard for
citation of legal material?
, if it embraces large
blocks of legal material, if it sometimes exercises an unnecessarily minute interest in the external accouterments of institutionalized religion, it also incorporates some of the Old Testament's most beautiful and eloquent lines.
WHEREAS CALL / ACBD is the Canadian professional association most aware of and knowledgeable about the preservation and access issues related to the
publication of legal materials in digital form; and
Called LawSauce, the app helps you sift through the
variety of legal materials available online and find the ones best suited to help you find what you need.
In the Statement IFLA note's that the role of providing access to «authentic and official
versions of legal materials» and ensuring that these materials are preserved in the future has changed.
And recent debate here at Slaw about sources
of legal material tells me that others are likely thinking about it too.
However with the advent of the Internet and the multiplication of the channels for the
distribution of legal material, this science of case naming was creating a barrier for all those judicial and administrative institutions which were engaged in self - publishing.
I have spoken with many in the legal community who feel concern about the prospect of applying certain technological advances to legal practice: this can encompass emerging innovations, such as semantic
analysis of legal materials and algorithm powered software for giving legal advice, and the adoption of technology in wide use, like new versions of office software.
Occupying a three - story building on the north side of the campus, the Library houses an extensive collection
of legal materials including federal and state statutes, case reporters, and digests, monographs, treatises, secondary resources, legal periodicals, and newspapers, with a focus on Florida - specific legal resources.
«A
lot of legal materials are still in print so students need to come to the library to work with books in print and as a result you get big groups of people in the library at any time.
Prior to the availability of ZimLII, Magistrates tended to ask the lawyers appearing before them for hard
copies of the legal material they presented in court.
This will allow the linking of resources based on subject as laid out in the classification and the development of software that facilitates
exploration of legal materials using a conceptual base that was designed to make sense for Canadian research.
Preservation of legal materials that are not available online, particularly older editions of law books, etc., so as to make available the history of anything in regard to which all forms of in - depth analysis are dependent;
The global legal publisher vLex, LLC and its Canadian partner Compass / vLex Canada are announcing today that they will support the Feb. 23 - 25 Global Legal Hackathon by offering up to 100 participants the use of Iceberg, an artificial intelligence platform for massive content projects that vLex initially developed to facilitate its own
publishing of legal materials and then began offering commercially in 2017.
[NOTE added 2 March 2010: National
Inventory of Legal Materials: A Call to Action is now available; per @evwayne, it «offers guidance and suggestions for creating the inventory.»]
The hyperlinks are to reports of the decisions in CanLII — the Canadian Legal Information Institute — which maintains a freely available
database of legal material.
• Preparing a
variety of legal material and correspondence • Gathering and maintaining a perfect accounting of the Judge's statistical data • Scheduling judge's appointments and meetings • Making travel arrangements • Answering telephone calls • Receiving and scrutinizing incoming letters and emails • Maintaining manual and electronic filing systems • Carrying out a variety of confidential tasks
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The Southern African Legal Information Institute — SAFLII — has become the primary — and only —
publisher of legal materials for some countries.
Legal infrastructure is a somewhat ponderous phrase for this amorphous
collection of legal materials, organizations, norms, beliefs, and practices, but there are good reasons for using the term.
Show me where in
ANY of those legal materials where it says that the Erie County Sheriff can order the State Police not enter Erie County for enforcement purposes.
Correction: Show me where in
ANY of those legal materials where it says that the Erie County Sheriff can order the State Police not TO enter Erie County for enforcement purposes
Not only are the software packages not able to address the nuances
of legal materials, but there are types of legal materials, such as looseleafs, which were not considered by the developers of the standards for data format and citation type.
The substantive challenges remain constant — ensuring material is timely, varied, interesting and enlightening AND articulating in a blog format that is readable and (dare I say
this of legal material) enjoyable and entertaining!
We do this by maximizing available resources through our in - house collections
of legal materials, through resource sharing with other libraries, through Internet resources, and through referral to other agencies as needed.
The «Googlization»
of legal materials is not deterring other actors from building e-law collections.