Sentences with phrase «research on case laws»

A Legal Clerk helps lawyers by drafting legal documents, conducting research on case laws, filling legal documents, and handling correspondence.

Performed key research on case law and authorities regarding condominium conversions in complex construction defect and unfair business practices cases.

Highlights Knowledge of immigration law and international human rights statues Well - versed in animal - rights law Bilingual in English and Spanish Prepared filings for lawyers in [name of case] Performed extensive research in [name of case] Proficient in interviewing clients In top 10 percent of class at Achme Law School President of the Achme Law School Club Sitting for [month, year] Virginia Bar Examination Excellent negotiation skills Exceptional communication skills Experience Legal Research Intern 6/1/2015 — 8/1/2015 Jones Animal Rights Group — Washington, D.C. Performed research on case law in various animal abuse cases.

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Gordis rests his case for a dynamic halakhah on the findings of modern critical scholarship, the «past two centuries of brilliant and dedicated research in Jewish law, literature, and life.»

Someone above wondered why it took so long to file the action and why now... as to the second I would surmise that the Statute of Limitations was going to expire on the 20th of April (I disposed of my law books years ago and I'm not going to spoil speculation by actually doing any research to see exactly what the SOL is in Title XI cases) and they wanted to beat that.

While this is not an unreasonably short standard compared to similar laws in New York or Germany, my research on administrative litigation in China (based on 178 interviews) suggests that this simple limitation derails more cases against the Chinese state than any other factor.

The prosecution alleges that Mr. Silver steered state grants to mesothelioma research to Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital in exchange for a doctor there, Dr. Robert Taub, referring patients to a law firm that sues on behalf of such patients, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Mr. Silver was of counsel and received lucrative payments for referring clients with asbestos cases.

After years of scientific and ethical debate, the United Kingdom passed a law last year that would allow fertility clinics there to offer the technique — but on a case - by - case basis and closely overseen by that country's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates assisted reproduction and embryo research.

University of Washington Center for Genomic and Health Care Equality; Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics; the Duke Center for the Study of Public Genomics; Case Western Reserve University Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law; Center for Genomics and Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania Center for the Integration of Genetics Healthcare Technology

Given current U.S. law governing abortions, and the strong scientific case for fetal tissue research, a vote by Congress to restrict fetal tissue research would needlessly hamper science, while having no impact on abortion.

The research for this book involved extensive survey of free speech literature, theories in media ethics and in social responsibility; extensive survey of problematic, violent speech on the Internet; analysis of relevant literature, government position papers, state laws and court cases, and review of law - enforcement measures that have been taken to combat various forms of violent speech.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

Susan Eaton, research director at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, made the case for refocusing school reform on creating integrated schools.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

He teaches courses regularly on educational policy, education and the law, case study research methods, instructional leadership, and special education policy.

Those who are supposed to write their case study, thesis, research paper and essay writing assignments on MBA, Business management, accounting, Law and Economics etc. can easily avail this help from the best trustworthy assignments helpers.

As Director of the Criminal Justice Program for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Lora Dunn assists prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the country on animal cruelty cases — from research and written support on motions, pleadings, and briefs to trainings and presentations.

I am sitting on pulled research, each and every one of these cases should be addressed in a court of law and culpable responsibility assigned on the basis of the research already available that these medical disasters are predictable effects of the vaccines....

Tom Smith, professor at University of San Diego School of Law and CEO of legal research site PreCYdent, lets his algorithm loose on Sotomayor's cases.

Second, one of the main ways to research case law interpreting a statute is by doing a boolean search on the code section of that statute.

Especially when you are researching an unfamiliar area of the law, this feature can hopefully prevent you from missing a big case on the topic.

However, I have added to the Case Law page on my legal research and writing website a chart of links for accessing Canadian court dockets (and for those jurisdictions who do not provide access, I provide a link to contact the court registry).

Here's a tip I always mention when I'm introducing students to the legal research process: you will save time if you start by consulting the leading secondary sources on your topic, rather than going straight to the legislation or case law.

While it may be true that «Not a day goes by without a legal professional telling us that he or she relies almost entirely (or entirely) on CanLII for his or her primary law needs», and that it is a «practice enabler» for small firm or solo practitioner, it is not credible as a vehicle for serious legal research other than a source of recent cases.

Fastcase has developed an app that allows full case law and statutory research on an iPhone.

by two law professors with a bent for political science and empirical research on the judiciary — suggests that if trends continue, Trump might fare no better than Obama, who had a win rate of 50.5 percent in cases in which the federal government was a party.

Topics to be taught will include, but are not limited to, an introduction to the legal community, a practical and intensive primer on depositions and discovery, an introduction to practicing in court (court appearances, legal writing and research, pet peeves of the bench, etc.), transition into practice (dealing with clients, how to successfully participate in ADR, relations with other attorneys, case management, etc.) and an introduction to law practice management.

While every litigator learns how to conduct legal research in law school, performs legal research on the job (or reviews research conducted by associates or staff), and applies the fruits of legal research to the facts of their cases, many may not yet have encountered legal analytics.

The projects potentially include: legislative drafting at both the state and federal level; legal research, amicus briefs and testimony on relevant legislation and significant cases; collaboration with tech industry leaders on anti-harassment policies; community outreach, victim support, and training programs for law enforcement and educational institutions; and fundraising efforts.

What I have therefore done was this: I use a customized HTML «home page» at work and on my home laptop that is organized into 6 «boxes» providing links (and password information) to web resources covering such things as reference tools, books, publishers, journals, research databases, news, case law, precedents... [more]

1) Current Awareness 2) RSS for Firm Marketing 3) Vanity Feeds 4) Internal Research Collections 5) Client Press 6) Feeding on Marketing Content for KM 7) Case Law & Legislative Changes 8) Aggregated Tagging 9) RSS Republishing 10) Feed Mixing & Filtering for Subject Collections

His law practice focuses on providing legal research and writing services and case evaluations for lawyers.

While this increase in recent years is to be applauded, it remains the case that a problem regularly described as one of the greatest problems facing the legal sector in Canada receives — on a good day — about one thirteenth of all law - related research funding.

On a daily basis the Veterans Benefits Blog provides relevant articles, research material, case law, and regulations to assist veterans in their disability compensation and pension claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs.

My plan is to use the information conveniently available on CanLII through their links to case law when statutes have a table of contents, and marry that with internal research memos, homegrown legislative histories, and a partial table of concordance to create an annotated Alberta Insurance Act.

Relevant comments included: «I liked the passport motion because without research, it allowed us to focus on the new format of the brief»; «I liked the passport [motion] because it forced us to get creative where case law didn't exist»; «I think the passport motion is more interesting.

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.

The following Legal Research Updates are complimentary electronic legal research newsletters, authored by National Legal Research Groups Senior Attorneys, that provide timely information on relevant case law developments and statutory and regulatory changes in the following legal specialtResearch Updates are complimentary electronic legal research newsletters, authored by National Legal Research Groups Senior Attorneys, that provide timely information on relevant case law developments and statutory and regulatory changes in the following legal specialtresearch newsletters, authored by National Legal Research Groups Senior Attorneys, that provide timely information on relevant case law developments and statutory and regulatory changes in the following legal specialtResearch Groups Senior Attorneys, that provide timely information on relevant case law developments and statutory and regulatory changes in the following legal specialty areas:

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year coursLaw School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year coursLaw has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courslaw schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

As a developer, Daniel co-designed ICLR's online legal research platform, iclr.co.uk and has a particular focus on opening access to English case law.

But if we are moving to a world in which indexes themselves are incomprehensible, and even Boolean searching is viewed as an anachronism, lawyers might soon be completely dependent on algorithms developed by others, without their specific research needs in mind, to find the law that supports their arguments and forms their case theories.

This issue also implicates the Hague Convention on child abduction.111 The students then need to find the Convention, determine the processes it provides for return of children, determine whether Guatemala is subject to the Convention, and research case law under the Convention to see how courts have handled claims of abduction.

Gary's claim contradicts LexisNexis» own statements on its website where it says that reported decisions back to 1970, and those decided prior to 1970 that have been cited after 1970, are included.It should also be noted that our research shows that LexisNexis has not replaced all of the cases which had been provided in Quicklaw by Canada Law Book.

In my own research on legal education, I demonstrated that a key shortcoming of the traditional intellectual apprenticeship lies precisely when students start to think about the contexts of law cases in complicated ways.

I'm a devoted reader of the Law Librarian Blog, a source of useful insight on new publications, trends, tips and tricks in research / instruction / tools, and best of all, pointers to great cases like this one... [more]

I have in the past complained about the abysmal lack of online access to Canadian court dockets at the same time as trying to compile a list of known links to Canadian court dockets to my Case Law research page on my legal research and writing website.

I have not used it as often as the GLO due to my current research focus on case law, but I am impressed with what I find when I do.

By making data analytics an automated part of the research process, JustisOne enables practitioners to focus more on the case itself rather than having to comb through judgments to find supporting case law.

The company has three main offerings: Anvi Insight, which is the doc review tool and is in Beta testing; Anvi Intelligence, which is its legal research tool based at present on local case law; and the third service line, Anvi Robot, which is a machine learning document generation tool.

Work on any on - going matters, which might involve: researching similar cases to your own, analysing points of law or drafting legal documents, such as witness statements;