Sometimes the cost of joining the bar association pays for itself due to the savings
on legal research tools alone!
Not exact matches
While the policy notes that «New York's
legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws
on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs
tool to make the laws more accessible, and instituting an «open by default» policy in the area of IT purchasing, data and
research.
Despite an explosion of
research on the use of brain scans and other
tools of science to help better determine a person's guilt or innocence, experts at a AAAS - organized discussion said hopes that neuroscience might transform the
legal system are unrealistic for now.
There are several
legal research tools that are based
on this principle especially for sentencing and personal injury awards.
Tips focus
on ways to improve your
legal writing and
research skills, strategies for practice management, and the latest
tools to up your tech game.
Overall, with a simple technology suite (laptop with basic software, printer / scanner, smartphone, and
legal research subscription), a freelance attorney has the necessary
tools to take
on projects.
In a post here two months ago, I reported
on the launch by
legal research service Fastcase of a new publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals,
legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow
tools.
You are probably already using some form of cloud computing
on a daily basis; any web - based email service is considered cloud computing, and online
legal research tools like Westlaw and LexisNexis are really the original SaaS software delivering
legal research via the web.
The integration combines Ravel Law's powerful
tools including interactive visualisations and analytics with Handshake Software's SP Bridge, which extends SharePoint Search to a firm's enterprise search platform and creates an environment where users can easily find and review critical firm data, firm expertise as well as
on - premises and online
legal research materials.
iAnnotate, the app that allows you to read, annotate and share your PDF files, is a valuable
tool when reviewing documents and
legal research on your iPad.
I've been out of the loop for a little while and just happened
on EVA the free AI - based
legal research tool that ROSS Intelligence made available earlier this year.
For more
on visualization
tools in
legal research, see the article I wrote for the ABA Journal: Visual law services are worth a thousand words — and big money.
Panel
on new
tools for
legal research included Jake Heller, CEO of Casetext; Daniel Lewis, CEO of Ravel; Andrew Arruda, CEO of ROSS Intelligence; Susan Nevelow Mart, library director at the University of Colorado Law School; and Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase.
My
legal research career has taken me to several different settings in different cities or jurisdictions, and one thing I have found interesting is that there has always been a stronger emphasis
on some
tools in each of my workplaces.
If that creates a sufficient connection to one of SLAW's themes of
legal research then I have justified the true purpose of this Friday fillip: Immediately go to http://www.simpsonsmovie.com (and click «Enter the Site») and click
on the link to create your own Simpsons character (or «avatar») using simple - to - use online
tools.
For lawyers, Clusty's ability to help hone in
on relevant results makes it a useful
tool for
legal and factual
research.
Fortunately, there may be some help
on the horizon, as companies are now developing
legal research tools that employ the power of data analytics to aid case forecasting.
Presumably, the
on - line
legal research services and other more traditional
research tools available to us are «premium».
A lawyer working
on an unlimited budget at a large firm could turn to computerized
legal research tools and identify Westlaw headnotes
on the topic or pull up lawyer briefs from seminal cases to find a string cite of cases with parentheticals describing various fact patterns.
Her current multi-disciplinary
research focuses
on ways to transform contracts from
legal instruments to valuable business
tools.
The company has three main offerings: Anvi Insight, which is the doc review
tool and is in Beta testing; Anvi Intelligence, which is its
legal research tool based at present
on local case law; and the third service line, Anvi Robot, which is a machine learning document generation
tool.
This morning the International Peace
Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) announced that the international «Dieter Meurer Prize for
Legal Informatics» for 2008 -LRB-(Sponsored by the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary («Deutscher EDV - Gerichtstag e.V.») and the German - language legal information service provider «juris GmbH» (Germany's «LexisNexis» or «Lovdata»)-RRB--RRB- has been awarded to Morten Bergsmo for his creation and development of the Case Matrix, a tool designed to make work on accountability for international crimes committed in armed conflicts more precise and effec
Legal Informatics» for 2008 -LRB-(Sponsored by the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary («Deutscher EDV - Gerichtstag e.V.») and the German - language
legal information service provider «juris GmbH» (Germany's «LexisNexis» or «Lovdata»)-RRB--RRB- has been awarded to Morten Bergsmo for his creation and development of the Case Matrix, a tool designed to make work on accountability for international crimes committed in armed conflicts more precise and effec
legal information service provider «juris GmbH» (Germany's «LexisNexis» or «Lovdata»)-RRB--RRB- has been awarded to Morten Bergsmo for his creation and development of the Case Matrix, a
tool designed to make work
on accountability for international crimes committed in armed conflicts more precise and effective.
JuriGlobe is a
research group formed by professors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, which focuses
on the development of a multilingual information data bank, accessible to all
on the internet, containing general information relating to the different
legal systems in the world, to the different official languages and to some of the most important international commercial conventions, as well as other multilateral commercial
tools.
View tips
on how using Lexis Advance
tools makes online
legal research easy.
As our goal was to step away from the purely theoretical debates we academics are often criticised for, and to create guidelines and
tools that could be implemented by those within the
legal community, we deemed it useful to use our presence
on Slaw to introduce our
research to court administrators and decision makers so that interested parties could benefit from the fruits of our seven - year labour.
Ted is of course a well regarded author and Slaw stalwart who is always willing to enlighten the profession with his keen observations
on new developments in
legal research and helpful advice as to how to use
research tools more effectively.
What always puzzled me was the fact that everyone is currently living with mysterious black boxes when it comes to
legal research due to the unknown human - made decisions that go into how results are shown when searching
on any legacy
legal research software
tool.
Online version of the book, The Internet Guide for the
Legal Researcher, 3rd ed., this source provides detailed information on using the internet as a legal research tool, from e-mail to web s
Legal Researcher, 3rd ed., this source provides detailed information
on using the internet as a
legal research tool, from e-mail to web s
legal research tool, from e-mail to web sites.
The next chapter considers the effects of
legal publishing practices, and the penultimate section surveys the various
research tools the firm librarian relies
on for sound knowledge.
It accomplishes this through
research and development of efficient, high - quality
legal - service delivery
tools and systems — heavily relying
on the net and social media / blogging for learning and networking.
At the launch of the
Legal - Tech Virtual Lab last month, Penn State Law hosted a pop - up event in the University Park with ROSS Intelligence where law students were able to get their hands
on EVA, ROSS Intelligence's new free, publicly accessible AI
research tool.
Representatives from the EMEA in - house team sit
on a global
legal artificial intelligence (AI) working group, which is looking at AI and robotics, document automation
tools, negotiation platforms, deal and document management, billing processes, policy management, and
researching legislation and regulation.
Powered by Watson, ROSS has developed a
legal research tool that will enable law firms to slash the time spent
on research, while improving results.
Every month the library highlights a
legal research tool, in print and / or electronic format, that is not freely available
on the internet.
Since her doctoral dissertation
on Next Generation Contracts her multi-disciplinary
research focuses
on ways to transform contracts from
legal instruments to valuable business
tools.
In this presentation, «Google Scholar and
Legal Research Tips,» Charity Anastasio, Director of Law Office Management Assistance at Maryland State Bar Association, provides a full hour of expert advice on many different free legal research t
Legal Research Tips,» Charity Anastasio, Director of Law Office Management Assistance at Maryland State Bar Association, provides a full hour of expert advice on many different free legal researc
Research Tips,» Charity Anastasio, Director of Law Office Management Assistance at Maryland State Bar Association, provides a full hour of expert advice
on many different free
legal research t
legal researchresearch tools.
Charity wrapped up the webinar by touching
on other websites that offer free
legal research tools, including:
The information below is drawn from an independent Forrester
research report
on legal hold
tools:
The focus in
Legal Research and Writing is on process rather than how to use individual researc
Research and Writing is
on process rather than how to use individual
researchresearch tools.
Similarly, the short section
on Words and Phrases is under the
Legal Dictionaries heading, with the result that it does not appear in the table of contents and is given less prominence than this important
research tool deserves.
The August 2009 issue [pdf] of the Ontario Bar Association's magazine Briefly Speaking / EnBref has an article by David Whelan, Manager,
Legal Information for the Law Society of Upper Canada on using free and inexpensive legal research tools called «Right Size Your Research» — see pages 24 and 25 [
Legal Information for the Law Society of Upper Canada
on using free and inexpensive
legal research tools called «Right Size Your Research» — see pages 24 and 25 [
legal research tools called «Right Size Your Research» — see pages 24 and 2
research tools called «Right Size Your
Research» — see pages 24 and 2
Research» — see pages 24 and 25 [pdf].
There is a new chapter
on Electronic
Legal Research that covers commercial and free electronic researc
Research that covers commercial and free electronic
researchresearch tools.
This can mean using alternative
legal research tools to cut down
on the costs of
legal research, utilizing cheap and efficient
tools such as Evernote to make your practice more efficient, or by setting up shop as a virtual law office to cut down
on your overhead.
Analytics
tools such as those used by Ravel and other start - ups including Casetext, Judicata, JustisOne and Lex Machina greatly reduce the amount of time and money that lawyers need to spend
on legal research - an area that has not traditionally been seen as an area where savings can be made.
He noted that the Fastcase app is «the largest free law library available
on the iPhone» and it «is a surprisingly robust
legal research tool that will allow its users to find cases and statutes wherever they are, whenever they want, all for free.»
Below are some statistics
on who uses Tax Foresight, what types of
legal issues they are
researching, and how they incorporate the
tool into their daily practice to give the best possible advice to their clients.
We boast a plethora of leading - edge publications
on workplace law, as well as 20 fully searchable Databases which are accessible through our
legal research tool First Resort.
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 have updated the Reference
Tools page of my
legal research and writing website with a new section
on Law Reform Commission Reports, a topic that — in retrospect — was likely insufficiently treated in my book.
Is it
on the firm's matter management system or
on the firm's
legal research tool?