Sentences with phrase «others doing legal research»

The University of Miami School of Law Library is open for use by alumni, all University of Miami students, faculty and staff, and others doing legal research, although some restrictions are observed during exam periods.

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At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high - quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.

When I researched the current legal status of the affair, I learned that, in the meantime, many other mothers with MS had done as I had and breastfed under interferon.

Especially given the complexities inherent in the world today (and therefore the depth of detail, legal obscurities, and the like represented in actual legislation), the ordinary voter in a democracy may find his or her time better spent on other activities than doing enough research in order to form an opinion on each potential piece of legislation.

NEFW was co-created by AAE and the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) because labor unions like the NEA don't inform their members of their legal rights to opt - out of membership, leaving millions of teachers and other employees completely unaware that they have options.

Their customer service is fantastic; their website is user - friendly; their insurance policy is easier to understand than any other policies that I have read and it doesn't have so much incomprehensible legal jargon; their prices are very reasonable and provide the best value for your money for the coverage that you get (they were the cheapest that I could find during my research); and it is easy to make a claim on their website, purchase insurance and extend your coverage while you are still on the road.

She exclaimed, «While law school does an excellent job of teaching you how to research the law and find answers to legal questions, it does not teach you how to interact with other attorneys, judges and clients.»

«While law school does an excellent job of teaching you how to research the law and find answers to legal questions, it does not teach you how to interact with other attorneys, judges and clients.»

Second, my approach would improve legal scholarship because the only people producing scholarship would be those who are highly skilled in doing research (and who therefore understand the difference between research and advocacy) and the scholarship would be evaluated in the same way as scholarship in other academic fields.

What they have that others do not are significant databases of secondary legal - research materials such as treatises, specialized legal - research materials in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.

And if students react to seemingly irrelevant print lessons by failing to internalize foundational concepts, then they will likely revert to old research habits when they inevitably gravitate back to electronic sources to do their actual research.88 In other words, if the process doesn't carry over to the media they're actually willing to use, then they are far less likely to actually learn the fundamental, foundational concepts that are so critical to good legal research.89 Instead, they may achieve mere «inert» knowledge: «the inability to apply skills and concepts in situations other than those in which they were originally learned.»

For if the inclusion of other domestic legal systems in the research does not per se change its outcome, the principles thus derived would enjoy greater legitimacy thanks to the effective demonstration of their worldwide recognition by nations.

He or she helps them get ready for trials, hearings and other legal proceedings by doing research, drafting legal documents, interviewing witnesses and preparing exhibits.

No doubt about it; we are teaching a generation of students who have done no significant research (of any kind) in print.57 Because other online research seems so easy, they generally underestimate the effort involved in conducting thorough legal research.

The General Counsel Excellence Report conducted for us by Global Legal Post, a recent research study done by The Lawyer research arm and commissioned by Globality, and other market studies highlight a number of key client preferences that demonstrate the value of choosing a TerraLex team for cross border legal solutLegal Post, a recent research study done by The Lawyer research arm and commissioned by Globality, and other market studies highlight a number of key client preferences that demonstrate the value of choosing a TerraLex team for cross border legal solutlegal solutions.

This research shows that they are a first port of call for many businesses, but a number of these consultants do not have any professional qualifications and may employ the goal of eliminating all risk from the workplace rather than setting a proportionate approach to dealing with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other legal requirements.

I've just returned fresh from a research leave where amongst other things I investigated the challenges and possibilities around creating a Canadian subject based research tool that does for Canadian Journals what the wonderful Current Index to Legal Periodicals does for US journals.

Ideally, the research is concluded with the researcher being in the «confident» stage of their feelings (alas, this does not always happen in legal research due to some problems being unsolvable and other problems being terminated early due to a lack of time).

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

At the end, we did have to do a pitch with a PowerPoint presentation which is not my strongest suit — the PowerPoint — but it was really great because it gave me the opportunity to step out of legal world where we spend most of our time reading, researching, dealing with other attorneys, it was a great way to think about things from a different perspective.

I would like to know what others are doing in their legal research, however, and propose a survey of sorts.

That means that they have more time to spend on other things such as advocacy issues that they may not be familiar with yet, and less time on the mundane legal research tasks — we've done a lot of those recently!

This list excludes the excellent AI work being done for electronic discovery and legal research, as well as IBM's Outside Counsel Insights (OCI) and other «business of law» work.

«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 there are many other parts of lawyers» work that can be more competently and cost - efficiently done by specialized legal research support services than general practitioners can do it.

I sought to make the point about some of the faux research done by legal publishers (and others) in http://www.slaw.ca/2011/09/12/professional-information-publishers%E2%80%99-pr-whatever-that-is/

Ah yes — but mine would be a law school rant, which gets us back to other posts about how the otherwise splendid new graduates couldn't do legal research, if their lives depended on it.

What questions do you have for vendors of legal research, practice management and other technologies and services?

With the growing trend of fixed fee pricing, alternative fee arrangements, and other pre-arranged cost structures for legal work, it is more important than ever for a researcher to know several things that don't relate to the problem their research is attempting to answer:...

It has been said that lawyers do not necessarily know the law better than other people; rather they only know where to find it.10 A lawyer who does not know how to perform legal research is lacking a defining characteristic of the profession.

Bob Ambrogi: Eric, I think one of the questions that a lot of people wonder about is how do lawyers start to trust AI as a solution for legal research and other applications in the legal field, what do you say to that?

It was hard enough twenty years ago (when I was still typing my law school papers) to imagine the impact of the Internet, the scope of online law - related information and other technologies that support legal research (e-mail, laser printing, scanning, etc.)[although twenty years ago I did have a Commodore computer that used a cassette tape deck as its memory — you had to fast forward the tape to get to different spots on the memory!.]

In the electronic world and dealing with folks who don't have knowledge of legislation nor legal research, they will easily just inform others that an online audit trail of electronic user activity and multiple versions, is good enough.

In concept, it is a great idea for lawyers to have a place where they can share documents and research, discuss legal issues, and network with others who have shared interests, without having to worry about the ethical landmines of doing that sort of stuff in a public - facing site.

We can not help prisoners file civil suits, do legal research, seek sentence reductions, find the names of other attorneys, or assist with any other issues unrelated to their actual innocence.

Some lawyers retire in order to do other things, but many lawyers will retire because the practice of law isn't much fun anymore (e.g. legal research has become no «more than a google box on top of a legal database.»

At the company I co-founded, ROSS Intelligence, we identified that AI would solve issues lawyers had as they could no longer bill their clients for tasks related to legal research coming out of the 2008 recession — this seemed counter-intuitive to many folks off the jump but it was something we identified as a team of lawyers and AI researchers before others did.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positlegal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positLegal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

She established her own solo practice in Spokane in 1998, with a specialty in doing complex research and briefing for other lawyers in a variety of legal practice areas, including criminal defense, personal injury, employment law, family law, dependencies and appeals.

Now, legal tech is beginning to really impact the work lawyers do related to their legal training and experience: contract review, risk analysis, pleadings, legal research, and other areas.

Chambers, Legal 500, and others draw their revenue from firms advertising in the directories, although the placement of ads and profiles does not influence the performance of the firm in the independent research assessment, and this «arm's length» model gives these directories credibility.

«In other nations that permit nonlawyers to provide legal advice and to assist with routine documents, the research available does not suggest that their performance has been inadequate.

We are not able to answer reader's specific legal questions, although we do try to respond when the answer has legal research value to other readers.

When I was in the Legal Division of the Research Branch (of the Library of Parliament) most of the work we did was for the opposition and gov» t backbenchers because they didn't have access to the Ministries lawyers and other experts.

This means, for example, that we expect the Firm to avoid overstaffing a matter, premature or peripheral legal or factual research, and discovery requests or other projects that are «what we always do» instead of what is appropriate for the particular matter.

It might sound like a lot of buzz - words, but when you think about it, the reason we conduct legal research is to obtain a result that allows us to take action, or advise others on what they should do next.

As I see it, Google's free legal research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the law library and manual research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.

And certainly, even though the article asserts that the lawyer «never corrected the record» after his legal research concluded that Trump did have the authority to fire to the FBI director, Trump exercised that authority anyway — either advised by other lawyers or on his own initiative.

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