If your library can't afford to license Dialog or other very expensive non-legal academic databases, it is well worth the trouble getting that library card for those occasions when you have to venture outside the parameters
of traditional legal research.
The impediment
of traditional legal research services is that they just spew information and force lawyers to comb it painstakingly because these services simply use keyword matching to find relevant documents.
Blue Hill prepared a third - party report comparing the respective impact
of traditional legal research tools created by Westlaw and LexisNexis, such as Boolean search and Natural Language search, with the ROSS A.I. tool.
Not exact matches
«Over the past five to 10 years, types
of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from
research chemicals to mimic the effects
of traditional drugs
of abuse in order to circumvent
legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department
of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.
«These findings indicate clear advantages resulting from the addition
of the ROSS tool to electronic
legal research involving
traditional tools,» the report concludes.
There are
traditional legal research tools that parse the numerical information in court judgments into statistical information to guide decision making in certain types
of matters.
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.
It also minimizes the importance
of «documents» in
traditional legal research, he believes.
By contrast, the Internet has been aptly described as the world's largest library with the «books» all over the floor.64
Of course, this is an alarming vision for those who embrace traditionalist legal research theory.65 But can «traditional» legal research, that which we associate with orderly libraries and neat shelves of print digests, ever be relevant to the web - native law studen
Of course, this is an alarming vision for those who embrace traditionalist
legal research theory.65 But can «
traditional»
legal research, that which we associate with orderly libraries and neat shelves
of print digests, ever be relevant to the web - native law studen
of print digests, ever be relevant to the web - native law student?
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.
Understanding the implications
of the death
of the index and other
traditional frames for viewing
legal research was another common theme.
Of course, there was a time (long ago) when electronic research truly was at odds with traditional views of how legal research should be conducte
Of course, there was a time (long ago) when electronic
research truly was at odds with
traditional views
of how legal research should be conducte
of how
legal research should be conducted.
Some users, more used to
traditional methods
of legal research, bemoaned the inability to browse and drill down through topics and sources.
Ravel is distinct from
traditional legal research platforms in its use
of visualization to map out search results.
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.
Fastcase is a company that offers lawyers an affordable online
legal research alternative to the
traditional mainstays
of legal research, Lexis and Westlaw.
But the focus
of this post isn't Fastcase's
traditional legal research plans — it's the mobile app.
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.
In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (in material percentages at least) the AI - based tools that can supplement attorneys»
traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways
of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects
of due diligence in deals, performing contract management
of thousands
of a company's agreements, or conducting
legal research (see here and here).
These
traditional platforms, which have become the standard default for many
of those engaged in
legal research, do not offer the right sort
of technology to support the enormous volumes
of data which they hold.
In my own
research on
legal education, I demonstrated that a key shortcoming
of the
traditional intellectual apprenticeship lies precisely when students start to think about the contexts
of law cases in complicated ways.
Those
of us who carry out
legal research or provide
legal research instruction as a regular part
of our livelihoods or occupations often think
of legal research in what I think
of as a more
traditional context: the private law firms,... [more]
All this said, I think
traditional legal research training is going the way
of radio drama.
While content will usually have its first life in print, the words and pages will inevitably find a second home online, and now, increasingly, repurposed for other product lines, outside the
traditional parameters
of legal research.
In addition to more
traditional litigation services, our work includes serving as national coordinating counsel,
legal and factual
research projects, expert witness investigations, coordination
of discovery, design
of computerized litigation databases and product investigations.
Our highly developed Artificial Intelligence platforms improves the execution
of legal research, compared to the use
of traditional methods.
Blue Hill's
research indicated «clear advantages resulting from the use
of ROSS to supplement
traditional electronic
legal research practices», ultimately concluding that the ROSS A.I. tool can «unlock new gains in the efficient and profitable operation
of legal organizations, as well as create opportunities for new revenue gain.»
This is not a
traditional legal research tool in the sense that a law firm lawyer would use, but it does allow a corporate client a technology assisted solution for compliance with a myriad
of local, regional and state - level regulations that are prone to change rapidly and with little notice.
When you look at text - based search results on Google or on your
traditional legal research services, they kind
of all look the same, but they are not the same.
Should ROSS make their service available to law schools or might this somehow impair their
traditional teaching
of the fundamentals
of legal research?
This takes out a lot
of the frustration, difficulty, and risk involved with
traditional Boolean
legal research.
It is all part
of the BCLI's Financing Litigation
Legal Research Project whose goal is to examine «a myriad
of new, upcoming, and unconventional ways to hire lawyers for cost - effective representation, rather than relying on the
traditional means
of finance which remain out
of reach for many people.»
Those
of us who carry out
legal research or provide
legal research instruction as a regular part
of our livelihoods or occupations often think
of legal research in what I think
of as a more
traditional context: the private law firms, the corporate
legal department, the government (i.e., justice departments), the courts (i.e., by court counsel and students / clerks), the law school (by or for students and professors).
However, in the minus column, current articling students»
legal research skills are often lacking in three ways: (1) failing to have a tactical
research strategy; (2) being unfamiliar with the
traditional resources; and (3) being incapable
of performing adequate statutory
research.
Transnational Law serves as a concept to overcome the
traditional limitations
of perspective in
legal scholarship and policy
research.
Limited to answering
legal research questions,
traditional tools end up presenting you with a list
of cases that makes it hard to glean insightful information, unless you drill into each and every case.
Assigns the tasks
of analyzing the results
of legal research and applies to current issues and cases using computerized and
traditional techniques
Paralegal — Duties & Responsibilities Trained as a paralegal with a strong background in
legal research, writing, and office administration Skilled in the use
of LexisNexis, Westlaw, and
traditional legal libraries Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to thrive in a fast paced atmosphere Oversee and train large administrative staffs ensuring efficient and effective office operations Design and implement employee development programs enhancing team skill sets and morale Set and strictly enforce departmental budgets resulting in profitable operations Utilize IT skills to design and implement websites, databases, and oversee hardware and software troubleshooting Responsible for accounting, human resources, sales, and customer service activities Negotiate and administer contracts with outside vendors and partners Coordinate special events including logistics, staffing, and marketing Study internal literature to become an expert on products and services Represent company brand with poise, integrity, and positivity
By Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin Focusing on how technology can facilitate or magnify
traditional forms
of peer harassment, «Bullying beyond the Schoolyard» paints a vivid picture
of online aggression among adolescents by recounting the stories
of victims, summarizing current
research, and reviewing recent
legal rulings.