Sentences with phrase «other research lawyers»

I'd like everyone's feedback on an issue that arises from time to time when I talk with other research lawyers in Calgary.

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In other words, these foreign affiliates are almost like another Canadian economy out there, supporting jobs in Canada in areas such as research and development, engineering, design and marketing, not to mention lawyers, accountants, and executives who manage the operation from home.

It's a dramatic change,» said John Parker, a lawyer representing the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which has opposed the deal with the New York Public Interest Research Group and other groups.

Government - commissioned research calls for a cultural shift from rappers, sportsmen and celebrities to lawyers, doctors and other professionals.

UNC has brought in venture capitalists, patent lawyers, biomedical entrepreneurs, and others from nearby Research Triangle Park to help faculty and students turn their ideas into commercial enterprises.

Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org Use the Better Business Bureau to research your Financial Planners, Lawyers and other advisors who may be assisting you with Estate Planning.

Way back in 1993, I first started writing and speaking about how lawyers can use the Internet for research, marketing and other purposes.

In our Office's experience from past investigations, there is a difference between having information available to those who explicitly seek it out directly from source websites for specific purposes (for example, a lawyer doing jurisprudential research in CanLII or a journalist seeking out past articles on a given issue), and, the same information being «stumbled upon» or «fished out» by a snooping friend, colleague, neighbor or other acquaintance through a simple query search by an individual's name.

As new research reveals lawyers are finding their jobs more stressful than ever, Georgina Stanley asks whether law firms are doing enough to combat work - based anxiety and other mental health issues Statistics on mental illness speak for themselves.

Called Casetext Q&A, it is intended to allow lawyers to help each other with legal research questions.

Beyond law schools, mental health issues in the legal profession is something that is increasingly addressed: «But research suggests that [lawyers] are at much higher risk of depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues than people in the broader population — and may even be more susceptible than those in other high - stress professions, such as medicine.»

One last thing, do you know how can I research this myself other than asking / hiring a lawyer?

For further details see (pdf downloads): (1) «Access to Justice — Unaffordable Legal Services» Concepts and Solutions»; (2) «The Technology of Centralized Legal Research Can Solve the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (3) «Access to Justice — Canada's Unaffordable Legal Services — CanLII as the Necessary Support Service»; (4) «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem»; (5) «A2J: «Let Them Eat Cake,» So Let Them Use Alternative Legal Services»; (6) Indexing; (7) Sometimes Laws are Too Important to be Left to Lawyers — Lawyers Without Technical Support,» (Slaw January 28, 2016), and other access to justice (A2J) articles on my SSRN author's page, and Slaw author's page.

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since 2002.

JD Supra is a new website dedicated helping lawyers & law firms share legal documents, forms, pleadings, judgements, research, and other professional support materials.

Lawyers in Louisville, Ky., are asking a federal judge to set aside a jury verdict exonerating a police officer in a Taser - related death because they say the jury foreman researched the case on the Internet and used what he found to sway other jurors.

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.

As opposed to using lawyers» self - reported data as other analytical reports have relied upon, the Legal Trends Report from Clio uses aggregated and anonymized data from its own legal practice management platform, supplemented by large - scale research surveys.

Amnesty International International Secretariat research on the human rights impact of legal aid cuts in the UK As part of this research, described below, Amnesty International International Secretariat would like to interview lawyers and others providing front line services (eg those who run advice lines and centres, or drop - in - centres for victims of domestic violence, or children) about their experiences following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Lawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive anaLawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analytics.

While it's important for transactional lawyers to know the law and where to find it, there are a host of other skills and research resources used by transactional lawyers that are less visible — or nonexistent — in the law school curriculum.

We provide students with numerous hands - on learning opportunities tied to research, writing, oral advocacy, and a variety of other lawyering skills, with both a national and transnational perspective.

Based on this research I suggest that we consider mediation training as one way to counter these trends and to improve well - being of law students, lawyers and other legal professionals.

«I spoke to some of my colleagues who graduated with me who went to big law firms or other government jobs and, compared to their articling positions, while some of them got really great opportunities, some said their job was just following a lawyer around doing photocopying, research and they never had the experience I did.»

We were discussing the role of the research lawyer in law firms the other day.

So I would challenge research lawyers in other provinces, where there is not yet a dedicated section of the bar association for legal research, to take the initiative and create such a section.

Taking into account that our research lawyers and administrative staff are allowed to take summer vacation, here's a list of some of the other activities that have occurred in the last couple of months and will take us to the end of the summer:

Our discussion this time around focused on the frustration some research lawyers still feel in their role not being fully understood by others in their law firm or by clients.

While only God or Colin Lachance knows how much more popular CanLII has become three years hence, our own organization's research into CanLII and other tools (I work for Courthouse Libraries BC) shows that lawyers are both familiar and enduringly curious when it comes to CanLII:

By saying that AI will soon eliminate the need for lawyers to conduct research, we're pretty close to saying that the law never changes and that the law is not influenced by anything other than what's already been said in past cases.

For a firm like VLP, they certainly must have significant costs for legal research and other computerized databases or the computer network that these lawyers use to communicate with each other.

CPD is in largest measure a waste of time and resources that could be far more profitably applied to creating an encrypted, key - worded data base of precedents, relevant case law, and other materials (not unlike the old bar ad materials except these would be updated continuously as needed every year past your call) that all lawyers could access for research purposes at any time; i.e., the time they need it.

A former Delaware trial lawyer is preparing to launch a Web - based service that will search trial transcripts the way other research sites search court opinions.

Similar functions to those of law firm research lawyers are also carried out by dedicated individuals in government departments, courts, tribunals, and other organizations; these persons... [more]

The internet and outsourcing have enabled me to build a successful practice of providing legal research and writing services to other lawyers around the country.

NCN was founded by Lisa Solomon, a lawyer (and longtime friend of mine) who has practiced exclusively as a freelance lawyer since 1996, providing research and writing services to other lawyers.

It is caused by at least three other factors: (i) almost every problem law students encounter in law school comes labelled either by the course or by the assigned moot topic; few students ever have to deal with a simple cry for help from a client; (ii) in my experience at law schools — and it may be different now — almost all research was done in the context of litigation or moots and, while that's obviously an important focus, it's not the only one; and, perhaps the most important factor, (iii) the lawyers who give the students work far too often ask the student to «find a case» — this is almost universal focus of litigators — and are uninterested in either context or principle.

How lawyers are integrating paraprofessionals into practice In the months since my first article on Washington limited license legal technicians, I expanded my research to other states» progress on paraprofessional programs.

Other lawyer - focused apps specifically help with trial preparation and legal research.

But if we are moving to a world in which indexes themselves are incomprehensible, and even Boolean searching is viewed as an anachronism, lawyers might soon be completely dependent on algorithms developed by others, without their specific research needs in mind, to find the law that supports their arguments and forms their case theories.

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

While they are not able to give legal advice or perform the duties of a lawyer, they can conduct legal research, review and organize client files, help with closings at trials, prepare documents, and so many other important practices that reduce operational costs.

I'm fortunate enough in my firm to practice with several other lawyers in the same research practice group.

Rule 3.1 - 1 defines a «competent lawyer» as one who is able to, among other things, investigate facts and conduct legal research:

«If I were not a lawyer, I would be a law school professor because I would enjoy the intellectual challenge, teaching others, and the ability to pursue my research and academic interests,» he said.

Research undertaken by Legal Cheek shows Linklaters» London trainees and junior lawyers arrive at the office on average at 9:14 am and leave at 8:23 pm, which is in line with other top firms across the City.

Because malpractice insurance for lawyers is not mandatory in the U.S. (except in the state of Oregon), LAWPRO has been at the forefront of research into coverage models, claims trend analysis, premium setting, and many other aspects of insurance administration.

Research and investigation of your Missouri brain injury case After agreeing to take on your case, a Missouri brain injury lawyer will go through your case carefully, conducting all the necessary research and investigation to ensure you have the strongest case possible with plenty of evidence that the other party was at fault and that you received anResearch and investigation of your Missouri brain injury case After agreeing to take on your case, a Missouri brain injury lawyer will go through your case carefully, conducting all the necessary research and investigation to ensure you have the strongest case possible with plenty of evidence that the other party was at fault and that you received anresearch and investigation to ensure you have the strongest case possible with plenty of evidence that the other party was at fault and that you received an injury.

«If an app does not seem to be of legal research quality, it might not be included in our database, but other than that, we are trying to include whatever we can find that we think a lawyer might want to access.»

And because the lawyers are local, they also can appear in court in addition to conducting research or other legal work.