So the problem is not that law schools do not prepare the students for the harsh
reality of legal research in a real life situation.
Costs are simply
a reality of legal research in practice.
Not exact matches
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.
To my knowledge Lex Machina doesn't literally call their system improvements an «easy button», but the site developments and O'Grady's description are symptomatic
of this moment in how we discuss
legal research: there is a desire to make
legal research easier, and as technology improves this is becoming a
reality.
In
reality, most
of the work a criminal defense attorney does involves investigating,
researching, and developing
legal arguments.
Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination
of the heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in
legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
legal citation, the editors
of the Guide to Canadian
Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
Legal Research are able to introduce
reality into the practice
of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy
of Sources for case law.
These practices —
legal citation and casebooks — are but two among many that would encourage a re-evaluation
of our
legal information processes and the way we teach and practice
legal research at the institutional level in light
of methods that are not only fairer and more accessible but perhaps even more responsive to and reflective
of the
realities of legal education and practice, and that address the needs
of a public hungry for
legal information.
The journal Perspectives includes a regular feature called Brutal Choices in Curricular Design «designed to explore the difficult curricular decisions that teachers
of legal research and writing courses are often forced to make in light
of the
realities of limited budgets, time, personnel, and other resources.»
Increasing numbers
of law firms have transitioned from speculation to
reality by bringing on AI assistance in contract review,
legal research, analytics and more.
The problem really boils done to the
reality that
legal research is very much a skill, and like any skill if you don't practice and use it, then you will lose the skill and have to relearn some
of it.
In Friday's episode
of Law Librarian Conversations podcast, we talked with two social media - savvy third year law school students to get a dose
of reality on what they think about social networking, online communication,
legal research and practice skills.
[23] With great respect to those decisions made at an earlier time, I think that the view
of computerized
legal research as a mere alternative is no longer consonant with the
reality of current
legal practice.
I envisioned lawyers doing non-stop
legal research and writing, but in
reality I spend only 30 %
of my time actually doing
legal work.
There is so much content that could be covered in orientation, from «pure»
legal research techniques to the more practical
realities of working in a law firm.
I have described how financial
realities have reduced our academic law libraries from comprehensive library environments to a rump body
of librarians (or a single librarian) in a law school doing library reference duties and obsessing about teaching
legal research.
Introductory and \ advanced \
legal research teaching has not kept up with advances in academic inquiry or the
realities of the 21st century.