Sentences with phrase «out of legal research»

We take the hard work out of legal research so you can spend less time in the library and more time handling your cases and clients.

Law librarians at Stanford Law School blog about what they've learned and continue to discover about the ins and outs of legal research.

Not exact matches

Like a lot of people I naively thought that I could research what turned out to be complex tax and legal issues myself and figure them out.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

The question of whether or not legal marijuana takes of a bite out of alcohol sales has been hotly debated in recent years, with some research suggesting the two products are substitutes and other research suggesting cannabis and alcohol sales are complementary.

And because there are some parallels, if you're interested, check out this table of contents on the Research Guide, and especially the links to top legal / ethical problems of non-profits.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Except for the prudent correction of an imminent danger, I will neither treat any patient nor carry out any research on any human being without the valid informed consent of the subject or the appropriate legal protector thereof, understanding that research must have as its purpose the furtherance of the health of that individual.

A milestone was reached with the publication in 2001 of the EC Communication» Towards a European Research Area (ERA),» which spelled out the need for a legal backbone to improve the coherence of European science policy.

Another problem is that in its July 2009 Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research, NIH spelled out specific requirements about embryo donation for newly derived lines, says Pilar Ossorio, a legal scholar who studies research ethics at the University of Wisconsin LawResearch, NIH spelled out specific requirements about embryo donation for newly derived lines, says Pilar Ossorio, a legal scholar who studies research ethics at the University of Wisconsin Lawresearch ethics at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

Using standard legal research methods, Beletsky and his collaborators systematically searched legal databases to determine whether naloxone administration in the out - of - hospital setting has been the grounds for a lawsuit.

It would also be important to lay out forecasts and policy responses for the already current reality of AI displacing not just «mundane» blue - collar labor but also highly skilled professional work, such as medical diagnoses or legal research.

Many experts believe it was too soon for such work to be carried out — both because the technology is not yet perfected and because the ethical, medical and legal implications of the research have not been hashed out.

Science Foundation Ireland's (SFI) legal remit is to promote, develop and assist the carrying out of oriented basic and applied research in strategic areas of scientific endeavour that concern the future development and competitiveness of industry and enterprise in the State.

That one binder then expanded into several binders in which I broke out my wish list for the store Design / Construction, the Brands / Designers, Legal / Business Documents required (that took a lot of research!)

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.

I would research the legal and tax implications for my state to find out all of the details before I did anything else.

The concept of the Walking House came out of N55's residency at Wysing in 2007, during which the artists researched the lifestyles and legal concerns relating to people of traveller origin.

If you plan on moving it out of state, it would behoove you to research restrictions in each state you'll drive in and pick the smallest requirements so that you are always legal.

After spending my first two years of law school doing legal research, reading, and writing in the classroom, I jumped at the chance to get out of the classroom and actually work as an environmental advocate.

Three sites, in particular, stand out to me as potential success stories in the small world of crowdsourced legal research.

Ninety percent (55 out of 62) of newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at the UK's top firms in Hong Kong were offered jobs this September, all of whom accepted, according to research by Legal Week.

It accused Legal Aid's law society managers of allowing far too much money to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research hours claLegal Aid's law society managers of allowing far too much money to be paid out on lawyers» accounts for legal research hours clalegal research hours claimed.

This holds true for someone who goes out of their way to assist you with your legal research problem.

One could argue that there may be perversion of justice in changing a rule to a defendant's detriment, when the defendant could have reasonably relied on it (highly unlikely here, but possible in my hypothetical about the lovers who let out their sexual frustrations in doing legal research about when they can lawfully have sex).

In October 2010, I wrote about the roll - out of Lexis Advance for Solos, the flat - rate legal research platform targeted at one - and two - lawyer firms.

We'll roll out the rest of our findings from this survey throughout the coming months, but in a broad sense, attorneys should keep in mind that the U.S. legal consumer is continuing to move towards a mobile - centric online research process that uses multiple sources of information to influence their hiring decision.

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.

Court Basics Preparing for Court Lawyers and Legal Help Researching the Law Resolving Your Dispute Out of Court

Our teaching methods need to get students out of the glass cockpit so that they actually think while doing legal research.

This is true whether you're talking about solving a research or discovery problem, sketching out a legal strategy, assessing the merits of a case, or performing a multitude of tasks that a lawyer now confronts.

Or a school might «flip» the legal research classroom, pushing the lectures about gathering legal information out to podcasts or other out - of - class media, thus freeing in - class time for hands - on practice and discussions about legal authority in a variety of contexts.44

It doesn't take much research skill to find the key lawyers at the bigger firms; the real art is sniffing out the hidden gems in the nooks and crannies of the legal market.

We did some research of our own and spoke with several legal consultants to find out what firms are most concerned about in 2014.

The legal research firm puts out a list every year of Super Lawyers: the top lawyers in over 70 different practice areas including firm owner David Christensen.

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.

Last year, the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (CRILF) and the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) sent out a survey to family lawyers in Canada to get a sense of legal professionals» preferences around dispute resolution methods and the costs associated with these various avenues.

As I reported last May, Judicata recently came out of several years of stealth mode to unveil what it had promised would be «a better legal research service.»

The UK's leading law firms have fallen back in the league of the world's largest legal practices, according to new research, with three City - based firms falling out of this year's Global 100.

And to Ronald Standler's Legal Research and Citation Style in USA, which I was unaware of until Judge Posner pointed it out.

The SLBA is trying to figure out how to provide credentials to its members (who might otherwise remain anonymous), what roles lawyers might play in a virtual world without a court system, and of course get some CLE credit, which California has granted (last weekend's seminar: Legal Research on the Internet).

This finding comes out of research performed by Susan Nevelow Mart, director of the law library and associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School, where she teaches advanced legal research and analysis and environmental legal research.

Out of the Jungle: Thoughts on the present and future of legal information, legal research, and legal education is a new group blog founded by Jim Milles (Director of the Law Library at SUNY Buffalo), Billie Jo Kaufman, and Linda Ryan.

Ravel is distinct from traditional legal research platforms in its use of visualization to map out search results.

We have already gone live with ROSS outside of bankruptcy law research and have also built out capacity outside of strict legal research with KM being something we are exploring with some of our partners already.

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.

An overwhelming majority of India's top legal professionals and business leaders have come out in support of the liberalisation of the country's legal market, according to new research.

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.

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]