Not exact matches
Now, despite the political and
legal drama around the rule, NIH is sticking with its plan, Michael Lauer, NIH's deputy director for extramural
research, wrote in a blog
post on 23 November.
I have more details about this in a
post today at
Legal Blog Watch: Bloomberg Takes
on Wexis With New
Research Service.
Two years ago, I wrote a
post titled, In Litigation and
Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule
on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.
Law school librarian bloggers
post on their experiences with and ideas about teaching law students how to conduct
legal research.
And while thinking about all of this a colleague * was kind enough to send around a link to a recent
post by Brian Sheppard over
on the
Legal Rebels blog called, «Does machine - learning - powered software make good
research decisions?
On Thursday, I wondered in this
post if a recent letter from an associate dean of admissions at Yale Law School might lead to a period of detente in an escalating squabble between that dean and the
legal research and writing (LRW) community.
The letter expressed concern that the blog
post in question sent «a message that
legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment
on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»
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.
Effectiveness may be debated (I think that clearly depends
on the
research and writing talent of the ghostwriter, the oversight of the attributed author, and the objective of the blog)-- but unethical??? I strongly beg to differ, and instead submit that ghostwriting lawyer blog
posts is nothing more than a legitimate new twist
on a time - honored tradition in the
legal profession (mostly driven by the practical need to efficiently manage heavy workloads by delegating).
The week features a mix of reflective pieces
on the nature of
legal research and writing and the teaching and learning of the same in
legal education, and substantive
posts students wrote about their major memo
legal research.
Thanks to Laura Orr at Oregon
Legal Research for including this blog in a pair of thoughtful
posts on the art and practice of blogging for lawyers: Blogging for Lawyers and Blawgers as (real) Writers.
A comment by Karen Sawatzky
on Simon's Scrolling
post inspired me to think about the language that is most appropriate when teaching law students
legal research.
I've published this «CanLII solution» to the unaffordable
legal services problem in more detail, as a paper
on the SSRN network (the Social Science
Research Network), which provides free downloads, and also as a shorter blog
post on Slaw.
What follows in this
post are some initial thoughts
on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and
legal researchers: (a topic I might consider
researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that
legal researchers suffer during the
research process?
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.
Following up
on my
posts earlier today (here and here) about the acquisition by LexisNexis of Silicon Valley
legal analytics company Lex Machina, I had an opportunity to speak with Steven Errick, vice president and managing director of
research services at LexisNexis, who gave me more details about the deal and plans for the future.
McDonald notes that the blog reflects her focus
on legal research and writing, but it also reflects her
research abilities, because McDonald unearths a wide range of blog
posts from around the blogosphere.
This is the fourth of a series of
posts on the major encyclopedias of
legal research in Canada that were prepared following a presentation to a seminar
on legal information at the University of Montreal.
Here are some
posts on the session I have attended so far: On my way to the ABA Techshow Finding a Needle in the Haystack: Internet Legal Research Keynote Address: Judge Shira A. Scheindlin The Virtual Shingle: Providing Legal Services on the Web 60 Technology Tips in 60 Minutes To be continued... stay posted for mor
on the session I have attended so far:
On my way to the ABA Techshow Finding a Needle in the Haystack: Internet Legal Research Keynote Address: Judge Shira A. Scheindlin The Virtual Shingle: Providing Legal Services on the Web 60 Technology Tips in 60 Minutes To be continued... stay posted for mor
On my way to the ABA Techshow Finding a Needle in the Haystack: Internet
Legal Research Keynote Address: Judge Shira A. Scheindlin The Virtual Shingle: Providing
Legal Services
on the Web 60 Technology Tips in 60 Minutes To be continued... stay posted for mor
on the Web 60 Technology Tips in 60 Minutes To be continued... stay
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Ted Tjaden's
post today
on «
Legal Research and Writing Skills in Law School» could not have been more timely for me and my colleagues at the Bora Laskin Law Library.
I filter Mary's
post with my
legal research goggles
on.
Also
on the topic of
researching legislation: it doesn't appear that SLAW has previously mentioned Eric Appleby's free online
Legal Research Guide to Statutes 2007 (PDF, 44 pages)(Eric is the founder of Maritime Law Book; Gary Rodrigues
posted here last year
on SLAW about Eric).
Posts share insights from quantitative
legal research on corporate law, capital markets, finance, and mergers & acquisitions as well as the debate about what law schools need to do to produce «practice - ready» graduates and «practice - ready» scholarship.
And although I can not in any way justify a
post on SLAW
on zombies or relate zombies to
legal research, I need to also mention my new, favourite time waster: Zombie Gunship HD.
One thing that came up during the «Computers and
Legal Research» session that I reported
on in my last
post was the issue of copyright, specifically: Does AI create new, secondary IP rights?
This is my hundredth Slaw
posting and rather than
post on legal information,
research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think about slaw as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial
postings about taxonomies of
legal knowledge back in June en route to India.
[1] See my previous
posts on legal aid and access to justice here and here, which cite
research out of Canada and Harvard.
According to a fascinating article
posted on Wired.com
on August 8, 2015 entitled Your Lawyer May Soon Ask for This AI - Powered App for
Legal Help by Davey Alba, a startup called ROSS Intelligence has created a unique new system for legal rese
Legal Help by Davey Alba, a startup called ROSS Intelligence has created a unique new system for
legal rese
legal research.
1) Look for updates to specific Oregon
Legal Research blog
posts, by clicking
on the subject Tags at the end of the
post.
In a future
post I'll take a look at some of the best online bibliographies find
on law library and
legal research websites.
One doesn't normally expect a Blog quite as focused as the Huffington
Post to spend much time on the legal publishing industry but Peter Schwartz's post on the Reinvention of Legal Research is worth a bit of attent
Post to spend much time
on the
legal publishing industry but Peter Schwartz's post on the Reinvention of Legal Research is worth a bit of atten
legal publishing industry but Peter Schwartz's
post on the Reinvention of Legal Research is worth a bit of attent
post on the Reinvention of
Legal Research is worth a bit of atten
Legal Research is worth a bit of attention.
Many programs also introduce students to
legal research techniques (more
on that in another
post) and oral argument.
Raymond Blijd (@legalcomplex), Project Manager Online Innovation of Wolters Kluwer, makes a compelling case that we are witnessing the death of
legal research on desktop in his
post today.
Interesting
Post on Hong Kong
Legal Research.
Your
post raised with me the notion that SLAW (and its contributors and readers) need to create a list of «must read» books in all areas in the scope of SLAW's interests (
legal research, knowledge management, technology, and so
on).
Via a
post on the
Legal Writing Prof blog, I'm reading an interesting paper, «Say Goodbye to the Books: Information Literacy as the New
Legal Research Paradigm,» by Professors Ellie Margolis and Kristen Murray of Temple University.
A recent
post from Raymond Blijd of Wolters Kluwer predicts the death of
legal research on desktop.
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