Sentences with phrase «thoughts on legal research»

Shaunna thank you for sharing your thoughts on legal research using social media at our conference.

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Bengaluru, India About Blog The Sports Law & Policy Centre, Bengaluru is an independent think - tank focused on interdisciplinary research, scholarship, education and institutional support for public and private enterprises in areas relating to the legal, policy and ethical issues affecting amateur and professional sports in India.

Columns include national education issues, research and development, innovation, thoughts on teaching, legal issues, a variety of international writers, and editorial opinion.

The AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium offers law school deans, administrators, faculty and researchers from across the nation the opportunity to engage in thought - provoking discussions on the most critical issues facing legal education tLegal Education Research Symposium offers law school deans, administrators, faculty and researchers from across the nation the opportunity to engage in thought - provoking discussions on the most critical issues facing legal education tlegal education today.

Bengaluru, India About Blog The Sports Law & Policy Centre, Bengaluru is an independent think - tank focused on interdisciplinary research, scholarship, education and institutional support for public and private enterprises in areas relating to the legal, policy and ethical issues affecting amateur and professional sports in India.

Bengaluru, India About Blog The Sports Law & Policy Centre, Bengaluru is an independent think - tank focused on interdisciplinary research, scholarship, education and institutional support for public and private enterprises in areas relating to the legal, policy and ethical issues affecting amateur and professional sports in India.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a coal funded non-profit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)-RSB- that engages in litigation and policy research to «hold accountable those who seek destructive government regulation that's based on agenda - driven policy making, junk science, and hysteria.»

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) is a nonprofit think tank [formerly the American Tradition Institute (ATI)-RSB- that engages in litigation and policy research to «hold accountable those who seek destructive government regulation that's based on agenda - driven policy making,...

And while thinking about all of this a colleague * was kind enough to send around a link to a recent post by Brian Sheppard over on the Legal Rebels blog called, «Does machine - learning - powered software make good research decisions?

Effectiveness may be debated (I think that clearly depends on the research and writing talent of the ghostwriter, the oversight of the attributed author, and the objective of the blog)-- but unethical??? I strongly beg to differ, and instead submit that ghostwriting lawyer blog posts is nothing more than a legitimate new twist on a time - honored tradition in the legal profession (mostly driven by the practical need to efficiently manage heavy workloads by delegating).

He runs Fastcase, and his job is to think his way around the manpower Wexis can bring to bear on legal research.

And if we teach legal research with an emphasis on information gathering, then we inadvertently feed into this dangerous line of thinking.

A comment by Karen Sawatzky on Simon's Scrolling post inspired me to think about the language that is most appropriate when teaching law students legal research.

Out of the Jungle: Thoughts on the present and future of legal information, legal research, and legal education is a new group blog founded by Jim Milles (Director of the Law Library at SUNY Buffalo), Billie Jo Kaufman, and Linda Ryan.

What follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research process?

We are used to developing substantive expertise in unfamiliar legal issues.95 An effective LRW problem needs to challenge the students to think creatively about research, to use the available sources effectively, and to take on the role of counselor or advocate.96 Including the world broadens the possibilities for problem issues and enriches existing problems by adding a new dimension.

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.

What I also think needs to be done, is more emphasis on legal research.

Kim Nayyer's column on the use of law reform agency materials for legal research has prompted me to talk about how the Law Commission of Ontario thinks about this very issue.

A selective collection of authoritative blogs associated with American Bar Association approved law schools, research institutes, think tanks, and other expertise - based organizations, containing journal - style entries, articles and essays, discussions, and comments on emerging legal issues, national and international.

To put this in context, in Chapter 8 of the second edition of my Irwin Law book called Legal Research and Writing (which itself is available as an e-book on Quicklaw and as 1 of 12 digital books available directly from Irwin Law), I list by topic what I think are the leading Canadian law - related books or treatises, a list which resulted in just over 800 titles.

Eric Laughlin: New products that would be really interesting in the legal space and sort of natural extensions from where we are, you think about something like combining an idea like Amazon's Alexa, that's always on listening speaker, with a Westlaw Research Spot.

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Next week I will have the opportunity to join with a number of colleagues on a panel to discuss with law school students the importance of legal research and writing, largely in anticipation of them becoming lawyers on graduation and needing to have certain skills in order to excel in their profession (and I think it is great that this law school is making this kind of session available to students).

This is my hundredth Slaw posting and rather than post on legal information, research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think about slaw as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial postings about taxonomies of legal knowledge back in June en route to India.

We've recently been discussing things like online legal research for your law firm and necessary law firm businesses licenses, and I thought I might as well move on to malpractice insurance for your law firm.

In what I think is the second installment of my race to catch all of you up with what I've been doing (I discussed law firm business licenses a couple of days ago), I'm here to talk today about online legal research providers — in particular, my journey to deciding on what to do for my legal research needs.

Legal research, potentially, but there are couple of things here that were on the list but sort of down the list that I think are interesting.

Michele shares her insights and research into what is happening in the field of legal innovation, her thoughts on law firm incubators, access to justice and what students are considering now in their careers.

TITLE: Out of the Jungle: Thoughts on the Present and Future of Legal Information, Legal Research, and Legal Education.

I will say that from now on, I will consider Ms Sawatzky's points and think about using provincial services for legal research, and I would expect her counterparts in other provinces offer similar services.

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.

Although most of my columns focused on legal research, I thought it important to introduce students to formal law - related KM since — unless they summered at a large firm — they would in most cases not have been taught or exposed to knowledge management in law school despite many of them (informally) engaging in KM throughout law school through the sharing of course summaries, online chatting (even during class!)

Let's start with doctrine: — Current copyright literature Next to Genie Tyburski and the wonderful Virtual Chase — Virtual Chase Legal Research guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by PeteResearch guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peteresearch on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by PeteResearch in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by PeteResearch Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peter Jacso.

With numbers like that, we realized it was possible to learn even more from the experiment and so this year we teamed up with the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family (where JP Boyd is now executive director) to commission a multi-phase evaluation exploring not only what people think about the resource, but how this wikified approach to disseminating legal information actually impacts on outcomes and access to justice.

It might sound like a lot of buzz - words, but when you think about it, the reason we conduct legal research is to obtain a result that allows us to take action, or advise others on what they should do next.

For five years, Kris worked closely with thought leaders in large law firms conducting unbiased data - based research studies focused on finding solutions to legal industry management issues.

Ms Best, a noted research lawyer, reviews three recent Canadian books on legal research and then goes on to offer some wise thoughts of a more general nature on research tools.

Time for a Canadian - Based Think Tank on Legal Innovation and Competitiveness Mitch Kowalski makes a case for an independent group to research Innovation and Competitiveness in the Canadian Legal Industry.

In conducting research for Canadian Lawyer's special report on diversity, it became clear that most law firms did not think the federal government's equity policies even applied to legal agents.

The CMA's research shows that businesses» understanding of RPM is low; about one - third of the businesses surveyed incorrectly thought it was legal to set the price at which other businesses can resell their product, with another 37 % uncertain on the rules.

To be even clearer, I'm not suggesting that opponents have not included helpful guidance and suggestions in their largely well researched and well thought out papers on things the legal profession and legal regulators could be doing to improve access to justice, innovation and modernization.

However, other than finding an issue in the course of using the material (eg searching a legal research database and not finding a case you know should have been retrieved by the particular search), I don't have any thoughts on how to practice «safe» computerized research.

Bengaluru, India About Blog The Sports Law & Policy Centre, Bengaluru is an independent think - tank focused on interdisciplinary research, scholarship, education and institutional support for public and private enterprises in areas relating to the legal, policy and ethical issues affecting amateur and professional sports in India.

While I was interning at a legal think tank, a research fellow assigned me and another intern some work on a Wednesday.

Since research on attitudes to family law (Morrison et al. 2004) has shown that many people thought that cohabiting fathers had parental rights even when they did not, it is not clear whether this legal change will result in greater levels of non-resident father involvement in BC2.