Sentences with phrase «spends doing legal research»

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Especially given the complexities inherent in the world today (and therefore the depth of detail, legal obscurities, and the like represented in actual legislation), the ordinary voter in a democracy may find his or her time better spent on other activities than doing enough research in order to form an opinion on each potential piece of legislation.

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.

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.

There are always exceptions that more experienced users will follow, but read any blog, book or brief on legal research and the song is the same: Why spend your time blindly looking for the leading case when an esteemed (and far more learned) legal mind has already done it for you?

That means that they have more time to spend on other things such as advocacy issues that they may not be familiar with yet, and less time on the mundane legal research tasks — we've done a lot of those recently!

With all the time that technology has saved them, the future GC is able to sit down and spend the rest of the day doing legal research that is actually enjoyable, using software tools to find the most relevant cases and arguments.

[24] In response to Justice Watson's reference to Bob Cratchit's coal, I would point out that the disbursement claimed in these cases is for access to the legal databases and is based upon the time spent doing research for the particular client on the particular matter.

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 attenlegal publishing industry but Peter Schwartz's post on the Reinvention of Legal Research is worth a bit of attenLegal Research is worth a bit of attention.

I envisioned lawyers doing non-stop legal research and writing, but in reality I spend only 30 % of my time actually doing legal work.

It worked for a while; she spent three months in early 2012 training at high altitude in Kenya, running alongside the world's best, while also doing legal research and writing briefs on her laptop, and e-mailing the work back to Chattanooga.

For an industry that spends so much time looking at and studying precedent, the giants» singular focus on providing urgently needed (read: present) legal content is a little puzzling, if only because they don't seem to be acknowledging the communal spaces for historical research are disappearing.

While not exactly true, legal marketers do need to spend time on - line (researching clients and prospects, finding speaking events for lawyers, sponsorship and branding opportunities, etc.) and playing with crayons (creation of advertising, event invitations, newsletters, promotional material, presentation and proposal responses, etc.), there is actually a lot more they can do for you.