Sentences with phrase «tasks of legal research»

A new website called Tabulaw hopes to simplify the task of legal research and writing.

It discusses the application of computers to the task of legal research... [more]

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(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy chalegal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy chaLegal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy chalegal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

One of the most common tasks to outsource is legal research.

In many other ways, he has been at the forefront of these issues and a leader in the profession of law: He is a founding director of the Centre for the Legal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of theLegal Profession and has been a member of the steering committee of Ontario's joint civil legal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of thelegal needs study, and served as research director for the Law Society of Upper Canada's task force on the independence of the bar.

Unfortunately, most students come to law school overconfident in their research skills because they are fairly adept at the simple task of gathering information.30 So they often fail to appreciate that legal research is significantly more sophisticated and complex than the more - general research they have conducted in the past.

Rather, everyone understands that such practices are de rigueur because the senior folks are simply way too busy handling other senior - level tasks to undertake the very time - consuming process of researching all of the relevant facts and legal issues pertinent to a judicial opinion, legal brief, or law journal article, and crafting all that raw material into persuasive prose.

As noted, the task of collecting information isn't always amenable to sequential ordering, especially in an electronic environment.107 Even so, recognizing and categorizing legal authority is critically important to legal research — and to sound legal analysis.

This is true whether you're talking about solving a research or discovery problem, sketching out a legal strategy, assessing the merits of a case, or performing a multitude of tasks that a lawyer now confronts.

For fairly routine tasks, student research assistants may be qualified based on several years of education in legal writing and analysis.

Many volumes of pedagogical scholarship, and many pages of legal research texts, have been devoted to checklists, steps, acronyms, and flowcharts designed to give a sense of direction to the new legal researcher.91 No doubt, it's important to have some structure around the daunting task of researching a legal issue.

The Law Clerk Connection site is intended to allow for placement of short - term, discrete tasks like drafting, document production and legal research.

«But recent research and even the people working on the software meant to automate legal work say the adoption of AI in law firms will be a slow, task - by - task process.»

Law's «manual» tasks consist of legal research and document review as described in Part II of this series:

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!

However the advocate's task can be readily separated from the cost of routine legal work — document analysis and organization, interim motions, legal research, routine correspondence and scheduling.

To get around these complications, my own solution has been to maintain a kind of firewall between the legal argument / research tasks I offer and the procedural tasks related to the preparation, filing, and serving of the documents I create for a client.

However, tasks may involve: carrying out factual and legal research; assisting with the opening, progress and closing of files; reviewing documents; drafting forms and other legal documents; or handling confidential information.

Strong understanding of legal research with proven ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and rapidly resolve complex legal issues.

Conduct the legal research and factual investigation needed to adequately perform the tasks undertaken on behalf of the client

Conduct the legal research and factual investigation needed to adequately perform the tasks undertaken on behalf of the caller.

My staff and I create memos to document our research output — not memos analyzing legal issues as that is a lawyer task, memos that contain a report of what information we find, how we found it, and often permanent links to that information.

The Obama administration in 2015 tasked PCAST (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) to advise «whether there are additional steps on the scientific side, beyond those already taken by the Administration in the aftermath of the highly critical 2009 National Research Council report on the state of the forensic sciences, that could help ensure the validity of forensic evidence used in the Nation's legal system.»

Skipping here an explanation of the basics of machine intelligence provided by Professors Remus and Levy (including a look at structured v. unstructured data and its potential for automation — it's worth a look), the paper looks at the potential for current or near - term automation of six categories of lawyering tasks — document and case management; document review; document preparation; legal research and reasoning; interpersonal communication and interaction; and courtroom appearances.

Nowadays most of the law firms, lawyers & attorney use outsourcing services for the numerous time - consuming tasks like legal research & writing, litigation services, legal Document review service, Contract management which allow them to focus on other clients based activities to maximize the profit of the business.

One of my favourite tasks as a firm librarian is to provide training (formal) and mentoring (informal) to articling students on gathering materials to answer legal research problems.

Two experts in legal research have developed an app for iOS and Android devices that they describe as like an international GPS for lawyers, helping you quickly locate the right web resource for a variety of legal research tasks.

Chapter 8: Family Lawyer as Limited Scope Litigation Counsel How Self - Represented Parties Experience Litigation Rules Governing Limited Scope Court Appearances A Friendly Word of Caution Basic Checklist of Tasks to Allocate in the Litigation Context Fact Gathering and Legal Research Organizing by Tasks and Substantive Areas Additional Litigation - Related Ethical Considerations Practice Tips Endnotes

Book - It Legal's online platform gives attorneys on - demand access to a pool of top law students across the country for help with legal research, editing and proofing, document review, writing articles, deposition summaries, and whatever other tasks they have on Legal's online platform gives attorneys on - demand access to a pool of top law students across the country for help with legal research, editing and proofing, document review, writing articles, deposition summaries, and whatever other tasks they have on legal research, editing and proofing, document review, writing articles, deposition summaries, and whatever other tasks they have on hand.

At the company I co-founded, ROSS Intelligence, we identified that AI would solve issues lawyers had as they could no longer bill their clients for tasks related to legal research coming out of the 2008 recession — this seemed counter-intuitive to many folks off the jump but it was something we identified as a team of lawyers and AI researchers before others did.

These are typically tasks that are continually repeated throughout the course of business and require little to no specialized knowledge, including billing, e-discovery, document tracking and filing, medical and legal research, contract tracking and filing, secretarial services, and discovery and negotiation support.

One of the many tasks today's mobile lawyer can perform on a smart device is legal research.

IBM's Watson technology is now appearing in many legal technologies that allow lawyers to quickly research information with real language queries, automate repetitive tasks, and even tasks such as the anonymizing of documents to create document templates.

Singapore saw the introduction of Intelllex to assist law students and junior lawyers with legal research tasks.

Indian legal research tool CaseMine has achieved some success in offering both legal research and automation of basic tasks.

Developed by the firm's head of research and development, Orlando Conetta, it guides lawyers through tasks by bringing in documents, templates and information on legal precedents, such as by allowing lawyers to assess legal risks against consistent, detailed criteria set centrally.

While articling at Will Davidson LLP, articling students will complete a very wide range of tasks and assignments, but of note, they will be asked to conduct legal research, prepare legal documents and argument, prepare for and attend at motions, prepare for and assist with trials, maintain carriage of Small Claims Court matters, and conduct Small Claims Court trials independently.

In the context of the legal profession, there are already dozens of technology applications using AI to assist with tasks like legal research, e-discovery, document review, billing, managing and analyzing contracts, and mining litigation data for strategic insights.

The student will also be expected to assist with other ongoing PLIAN projects, including researching, developing, and editing legal information publications; assisting in the development and delivery of legal information presentations; supporting proposal development for future projects; managing PLIAN's social media accounts; assisting with office and administrative tasks where needed; potentially assisting in answering client inquiries on PLIAN's Legal Information Line and Lawyer Referral Service; and completing other tasks as requested by the Executive Director and Office Manlegal information publications; assisting in the development and delivery of legal information presentations; supporting proposal development for future projects; managing PLIAN's social media accounts; assisting with office and administrative tasks where needed; potentially assisting in answering client inquiries on PLIAN's Legal Information Line and Lawyer Referral Service; and completing other tasks as requested by the Executive Director and Office Manlegal information presentations; supporting proposal development for future projects; managing PLIAN's social media accounts; assisting with office and administrative tasks where needed; potentially assisting in answering client inquiries on PLIAN's Legal Information Line and Lawyer Referral Service; and completing other tasks as requested by the Executive Director and Office ManLegal Information Line and Lawyer Referral Service; and completing other tasks as requested by the Executive Director and Office Manager.

In terms of what these results mean to the industry, I think what it means is we now have other tools available to help you in your legal research tasks.

During law school, he was a Case Worker at the University of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic, a Research Assistant in Tax Law, and a Legal Writing Leader tasked with mentoring other students on legal wriLegal Clinic, a Research Assistant in Tax Law, and a Legal Writing Leader tasked with mentoring other students on legal wriLegal Writing Leader tasked with mentoring other students on legal wrilegal writing.

A wide variety of duties — including «inside» tasks like drafting pleadings and discovery requests, reviewing discovery responses, performing legal research, brief writing and even transactional drafting, as well as «outside» tasks like court appearances and depositions — can be outsourced to freelance lawyers.

From the purely administrative task («learn process for recording expenses and disbursements») to the complex («prepare written report of options and strategy based on the articling candidate's research and investigation») and the critical («learn proper usage of precedents»), the competencies to be mastered are as varied as legal careers are diverse.

Most of my work consisted of pretty typical biglaw tasks — researching legal questions and producing legal memoranda.

Technology is not changing the «practice» of law, but it is certainly altering the way legal services are delivered — including substituting products for services and deploying AI for a growing list of tasks including contract management, document review, and research.

Here are some examples of the work that specialized virtual legal assistants and virtual paralegals may handle: transcription of dictation or handwritten notes; initial draft transcriptions of pleadings, motions, letters, blog posts, stipulations and interviews; revisions to the foregoing; case and deadline management; document review and organization; pleading preparation, review local court rules, electronic court filings, electronic and mail service of document copies; assistance with legal briefs (citation review, editing, table of authorities, table of contents, binding, printing and / or digital formats); coordination of service of process; billing assistance; internet research and investigation; document production, bates numbering and other discovery tasks; and preparation of hearing notebooks.

Research and drafting of legal memoranda are important lawyer tasks and should be required, as these skills are important to the competent handling of legal matters.

Major skills: Legal research and consulting; Common Law and Civil Law practice; Business Law practice (Including maritime and aviation law); Incorporation of companies in OHADA member states and in West Africa; Legal assistance of corporate bodies in OHADA member States and in West Africa; Company secretary tasks; Legal translation (French - English / English - French); Training of professionals in Business law practice and court procedures; Negotiation and drafting of business agreements; Debt recovery procedures; Filing of trademarks and patents at OAPI (African Intellectual Property Organisation) and related litigation; Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration); Leasing transactions; Drafting of Oil and Gas contracts; Advice on commercial investments options; Legal evaluation and management of projects.

It might seem overwhelming to think of transferring all matter related calendars, contacts, data, documents, deadlines, emails, research and tasks from one location to another, but Legal Files Software can handle all of the heavy - lifting, much in the same way a skilled moving company would.