Sometimes they even say they won't pay for time
spent on legal research on the basis that they hire lawyers who should know this stuff.
I'd recommend evaluating how much money you spend
on legal research in addition to how much time you spend performing that work.
Those are just a few ideas to help you save
money on legal research, while still providing your clients with the best legal representation possible.
One way of approaching this problem is for academic librarians to focus
on legal research skills that are not specific to a given resource.
Completely free, it is updated monthly with insightful feature articles and regular
columns on legal research, technology and management.
Throughout my thirty years as a professional law librarian, I have been immersed in the impacts of technological
change on legal research.
There are certainly some tangible benefits to joining the bar association, like
discounts on legal research, health insurance, etc., but those are purely transactional.
He also points out the expanding access benefits of well - developed court websites, and their positive
effect on legal research.
Reducing the amount of time
spent on legal research and converting that time to higher - value billable work creates the opportunity for a net increase in revenue.
His practice
focuses on legal research to resolve complex legal issues in all practice areas, in both substantive and procedural matters, and on appellate advocacy.
However, I have added to the Case Law
page on my legal research and writing website a chart of links for accessing Canadian court dockets (and for those jurisdictions who do not provide access, I provide a link to contact the court registry).
The MoU, signed by Professor Eric Fouache, Vice Chancellor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and David Gallo, Director, DIFC Academy of Law, will seek
collaboration on legal research and training that benefits the UAE legal community.
There's a much more in - depth course
on legal research for Courtroom5 members, and there's a nationwide database of appellate cases inside the member toolset for locating the legal authorities you need for your case.
Vermont trial court law clerks — both recent law school graduates and experienced practitioners —
concentrate on legal research and writing for all judges of the civil, criminal, family, probate, and environmental divisions of the Superior Court on location throughout the state.
In this program, Lisa Solomon, a frequent
speaker on legal research and writing topics, discussed how you can apply the lessons set out in judicial writing guides to write more effective briefs that will make judges want to rule in your clients» favor.
Susan Nevelow Mart Associate Professor The Boulder Statements
on Legal Research Education: The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills (Susan Nevelow Mart ed., 2014).
It seems a staggering claim for a firm founded just over a year ago, but Mr Arruda says the calculation is based on this being the amount of time lawyers typically spend
on legal research using a normal database.
As with any firm or in - house team that becomes a partner of ours, Bryan Cave will immediately be able to start saving
time on legal research, but more importantly, equip front - line practitioners with the ability to focus their energy and time on higher value work rather than being stuck in information retrieval workflows.
Instead, they may abstain, send the case to the state's supreme court, or try to predict,
based on legal research, how the state supreme court would decide the issue.
In addition to other
presentations on legal research, Kim worked with the Edmonton Law Librarians Association to initiate an educational program for legal research and analysis for articling students in Edmonton.
Library staff and guest speakers offer both free and fee - based
classes on legal research and using electronic resources in the legal research process.
You can also cut
corners on your legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law library.
He runs Fastcase, and his job is to think his way around the manpower Wexis can bring to
bear on legal research.
Morris and Kent had continued publishing the
Nutshell on Legal Research and, notably, Kent finished a rewrite of the old, How to Find the Law, when he published Principles of Legal Research: Successor to How to Find the Law.
Kreindler must have meant that Honeywell's spending
on legal research enjoyed that drop, not all its spending on law firms and other law - related vendors.»
Ultimately, perhaps there is some
onus on legal research lawyers to better market their services within their firms and to educate clients on their role.
Thanks to our own Ted Tjaden, seen here looking distinctly suave, the CBA's National mentioned Slaw in an
article on legal research in the October / November issue [pdf].
There are always exceptions that more experienced users will follow, but read any blog, book or
brief on legal research and the song is the same: Why spend your time blindly looking for the leading case when an esteemed (and far more learned) legal mind has already done it for you?
Cheryl Niemeier, Director of Knowledge & Research Services at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, started a series of blog
posts on legal research apps last week.