Sentences with phrase «thing about legal writing»

Not exact matches

As Legal Affairs wrote a couple of months after the Goodridge decision, «one of the strange things about judges is that even when they issue decisions that move the earth, they typically decline to explain how they arrived at their conclusions, thinking their written opinions should speak for themselves.»

Think about how legal issues and technology are changing and their near - future implications and the types of things new grads typically ought to be able to do for employers: discovery / e-discovery, planning and writing research memos and legal analysis, noting up case law, relevant note taking and client interview techniques / etiquette.

«[M] ost of what people take the time to write is legal analysis, law current events, opinions about these things, etc.» Again, he is talking about academics, but the point is true of a range of legal blogs.

Then the UK's famous legal social media person wrote in the Guardian about the 10 things he wished he knew before becoming a law student.

I'm pleased to have an opportunity to write a bit about «things legal» that are not necessarily about privacy or technology.

So legal trends report is all about data and how important that is and I even wrote an article for the ABA about a year ago on how on — the number one thing that lawyers are not focusing on which is data and how it can impact their practice.

Mitch Kowalski also wrote about the new service for the National Post: The YouTube of all things legal, LegalTube.ca makes Canadian law accessible and easy to understand (National Post, August 29, 2014).

Writing on McDermott Will & Emery's Legal Crisis Strategies blog, Lanny Davis and Eileen O'Connor — who know a thing or two about media strategies — offer their thoughts on the «four voices» that can be chosen for an interview, and which of them must be agreed to ahead of time by the reporter: 1.

And after a post about looting, I wanted to write about the great things the legal community is doing.

Take iPad in One Hour for Litigators, 2nd edition and Internet Legal Research on a Budget, for example: Jennifer Ellis says, «The thing that impresses me most about iPad in One Hour for Litigators, (written by Tom Mighell), is how it immediately gets down to business and provides practical guidance on how to make the best use of an iPad.

Whatever the occasional benefits of latent ambiguities in legal writing — giving contracts professors something to talk about, for example — there's less tolerance for that sort of thing in computing.

I write about things legal and am privileged to have met a number of leading Canadian thinkers and leaders in the legal ecosystem in Toronto recently.

A: «my answer would be — today, if you know where to look for it,» writes Carolyn Elefant, adding later,»... the Committee on Women in the Profession is right about one thing: equality is lacking in at least one place in the legal profession — and that is on the Committee on Women in the Profession itself.»

And then, so you see my blog there and then in the ABA Survey when they talk about what people learn from things, like, one of the big sources of the ABA Journal were I've written a tech column for years, and so, I unfairly like to add those numbers together and look at what a large percentage of people are learning about legal technology for me, and then Tom, of course corrects my analysis of those numbers.

The most important thing to know about motions and other legal writing is that they're formulas — not rocket science.

Well, actually, I get emails, and sometimes direct messages on LinkedIn, but the main thing is, people frequently write me with questions about what they should do in the new legal market.

At a moment at which there are many serious criticisms of liberalism and / or questions about its future, combined with substantial unanimity among legal academics about various progressive values (as seen, to be clear, through an establishment lens) and the routine invocation in current scholarly and public writing of things like «rule of law,» faith in judicial review, and so on, there is a lot of room for interesting and valuable work questioning those assumptions and premises.

I noticed that after a while, every CLE event I attended was related to legal tech, my nights were preoccupied with coming up with blogging ideas and searching for the next big thing in legal tech I can write about.

Women and minorities in legal tech are writing thought - provoking articles that answer real questions about ethics and impact, among other things.

Indeed, one thing that struck me about recent Twitter and online commentary was that many conservatives who have criticized Justice Ginsburg for her extrajudicial statements wrote approvingly of recent public statements she made about the importance of due process in Title IX proceedings, without mentioning broader concerns about extrajudicial statements on legal issues that may come before the Court or about issues that are part of current political debate.

As Simon writes, you may indeed follow me @kimnayyer; should you do so, though, you will be subjected to chatter about things like #yyj, #canlit, and #cdnpoli amidst the legal information, libraries, and academia content — along with a few RTs that aren't endorsements.

Other popular legal technology blogs to consider include: 1) Future Lawyer, written by the always - knowledgable Florida litigator Rick Georges; 2) Technologist, a group blog; 3) Divorce Discourse, where attorney Lee Rosen shares technology and law practice management advice; 4) Law Practice Tips, a blog chock full of wisdom from Jim Calloway, an attorney and the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Management Assistance Program; 5) iPhone JD, where attorney Jeff Richardson covers all things Apple - related, including iPhones and iPads; 6) Ride the Lightening, which covers a variety of interesting legal technology issues and is authored by lawyer Sharon Nelson, who offers her opinion on the effect of legal technology on the practice of law; and 7) the MyCase blog, where I regularly write about a host of legal tech issues.

In the same post, Albert attacked BCG Attorney Search's sister companies by writing disparaging comments about Legal Authority and LawCrossing, warning readers, «Just don't believe a SINGLE THING you read on [Law Crossing's] website.»