Though legal research practice in a law firm setting may operate differently than in academia,
the principles of legal research are the same.
Not exact matches
The Road to a National Curriculum: The
Legal Aspects
of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers, by Robert Eitel and Kent Talbert with contribution from Williamson Evers, commissioned by the Pioneer Institute and co-sponsored by American
Principles Project, the Pacific
Research Institute, and the Federalist Society, February 2012.
Instead
of guiding
principles, I came up with a list
of things I found important to remind myself
of during
legal research instruction.
Maximizing the re-use
of finished work - product is a key
principle of creating the high cost - efficiency
of a centralized
legal research support service like LAO LAW, accompanied by highly specialized
legal materials used, and specialized
principles of database management.
In my
research on general
principles of law in the decisions
of international criminal tribunals, I've found that the domestic
legal systems that are most frequently invoked by the tribunals are, by far, those
of Western Europe (in particular those
of Germany, France, and England and Wales).
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.
While Lincoln's
legal research didn't include Westlaw or Lexis, its underlying
principles of finding, understanding, and applying the law remain the same today.
According to Louis Sirico, chairman
of the AALS Section on
Legal Writing,
Research and Reasoning, the boycott is a «matter
of principle... we just don't believe in this kind
of discrimination.»
Since then, together, we've
researched Indigenous law about environmental governance, drafted summaries
of legal principles, and guided community deliberation about how these
principles should be applied.
Second,
legal writing center tutors can be taught the specifics
of legal writing assignments so that the tutoring is particularly useful to the students who come to the writing center.112 This knowledge will allow the tutors to more competently evaluate the writers»
legal analysis, because they are aware
of the relevant
research and underlying
legal principles.
With brief summaries
of general
legal principles on a broad range
of topics,
legal encyclopedias will get your
research headed in the right direction.
Legal Realism Unpublished Decisions, Non-Citation Rules, and Federal Rule
of Appellate Procedure 32.1 Existing Legal Scholarship and Empirical Data A DETAILED COMPARISON OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Appellate Procedure 32.1 Existing
Legal Scholarship and Empirical Data A DETAILED COMPARISON
OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories,
Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens
of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES
OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
OF A CHANGED
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS
Principles and Theories
of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Cognitive Psychology Influence
of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Labeling Influence
of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application
of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in Framin
of Cognitive Psychology
Principles to
Legal Research Diversity in
Research Diversity in Framing.
of the American Association
of Law Librarians»
Principles and Standards for
Legal Research Competency provides that students should be able to «[i] dentif [y] appropriate resources to locate the legislative, regulatory, and judicial law produced by... government bodies.»
George's article, «The Professor and the Professionals: Teaching Writing to Lawyers and Judges,» showed how some
of these
principles could be useful for
legal writing professionals and, by implication, for law students.8 Like Joe Williams, George also saw the potential for
legal writing as a discipline, and with his assistant Kary Smout, he compiled a thorough bibliography
of books and articles on
legal writing that had been published up to the starting point
of the journal — a compendium
of the
research and writing that had gone before.9
Those essays helped us think about everything from transformative changes in control over the
research process and organization
of legal sources to those
research principles that endure unchanging in a new landscape.
Next week, I'll address who should teach LRW, IRACing, teaching
legal research, and bringing the
principles of LRW into the doctrinal classroom.
Gary's
research interests include the use
of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary
principle,
legal aspects
of personalized medicine, and regulation
of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience and biotechnology.
Research initially conducted by the Business Education Institute in Australia involved
legal project practitioners across 9 different countries and found an inconsistent application
of legal project management
principles and practices.
Bertha not only showed a facility for reading law but, also, she demonstrated superior
legal judgment in the application
of the
legal principles her
research disclosed to the practical problems
of the firm's clients.
As a result
of the following factors, there is no need for a «proportionality»
principle to limit the
legal research burden inflicted by an opposing party: (1)
legal research materials are highly abstracted, headnoted, and indexed; (2) the searching is done by experts trained in
legal research — lawyers and law students; and, (3) the searching is done electronically.
Tags for this Online Resume: Microsoft Office Suite, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Keyboarding - 55 WPM,
Legal Research - WestLaw,
Legal Research - P.C.S.A.,
Legal Terminology, Service and Merchandise Accounting,
Principles of Management,
Principles of Supervision, Ten - Key Calculator Operations, Basic Bookkeeping, Files Management, Editing Skills, Document Preparation,
Legal Transcription, Contracts, Torts, Civil Litigation, Real Estate, Criminal Law, Family Law, Business Law, Wills, Trusts, Estates, Telephone Communications, Oral Communications
In addition, APA Ethical
Principles specify that «after
research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality
of the participants can be protected and unless
legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release» (Standard 8.14).