Sentences with phrase «time research lawyer»

When I left private practice to become a full - time research lawyer, I missed having a section that specifically related to my area of practice.

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Arruda, who left his job in June to serve as CEO of Ross, says the digital assistant shortens the research time for each case, allowing lawyers to take on more challenging files and preventing client fees from escalating.

«Our concern is that [Harris] can't devote her full - time attention to her job as deputy mayor,» said Gene Russianoff, a senior lawyer for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

What College Professors Can Learn From Alan Alda TIME, 1/8/15» «Those who are involved in funding academic research are really keen to see that it's going to lead to something practical,» says James Ryan, the education school's dean, who was trained not as an academic but as a lawyer.

There is so much to the process including legal research and writing, which is challenging even for credit lawyers at times.

Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt apparently each have lawyers dealing with these issues; if they are worried about taking time away from research, I think stonewalling and fighting is far more costly in time than just meeting the FOI requests.

«When it came time to talk about climate history and best available science, the oil company lawyers strangely didn't delve into Exxon's decades of research they hid from the public.

Senior lawyer hiring by international law firms in London fell last year for the first time since the financial crisis, according to research carried out by Legal Week.

I understand that taking the time to do some research and read online reviews can help you find the best lawyer to help you get the results you need.

You can't teach experience and putting in the time to research all aspects of employment law, seeking out training opportunities and grabbing any learning experience with both hands will put you in a much stronger position when you qualify and become a fully - fledged employment lawyer.

Companies listed here are trying to come up with better ways to do legal research, negotiate contracts, manage legal documents, match consumers with lawyers, search patents, manage a law office, track and bill time, and much more.

Every time you change a title or section number, you impair the ability of people doing legal research (both judges and lawyers) to find previous case law interpreting the meaning of the statute.

If Canada's 100,000 or so lawyers spent an average 5 % of their time on research tasks capable of being outsourced, and if a dedicated research bureau could be 60 % more efficient than the average lawyer, that still amounts to a staffing requirement of about 2,000 lawyers ($ 200M / yr).

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).

Still, for legal research on the go, at any time, and for zero cost, this is a must - have for any lawyer with an iPhone.

(NOTE: I am not a lawyer, but I did have to break a lease and spent a good deal of time researching and discussing my situation with a lawyer.

At the same time, I've also had terrible experiences with older lawyers whom I've supervised (particularly those retired from a government background) who ignored deadlines and turned out terribly researched work product.

For instance, [one of the firm's research lawyer's] billable rate was three times mine [as a Summer Student].

No doubt about it: information technology is marching — no, sprinting — ahead, fueled by new products that promise to revolutionize law practice and make lawyers more efficient.16 But at the same time, the feedback about law graduates» research skills remains lackluster at best.17 Despite a literal surplus of available tools, recent law graduates generally lack the research skills employers expect.18

««I'm a bankruptcy lawyer with 20 years of experience and if I spent the time and had done my own research, ROSS's responses would be about the same as I could do.

While research may help make the lawyer competent to handle the legal issue, this may involve another investment of time.

Lawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive anaLawyers need to also take advantage of new tools which development in technology have brought about to work more effectively — lawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analawyers now have access to tools that help make contract drafting and review quicker using artificial intelligence; tools that speed up research time by using electronic law reports, and there are even tools in other jurisdictions which attempt to use data to predict outcomes of court cases using predictive analytics.

If poring over dozens of cases on every issue is not the best use of your time, hire a lawyer to do your research for you.

[33] At the time Smith was doing research for his book, he visited fourteen cities and met with a many people, including a limited number of women lay lawyers.

If a law firm had no research retrieval system, then each client problem would have to be assigned to a lawyer (probably an associate) for analysis and research, and the client would be billed for the associate's time.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

But as lawyers we know that answers to a law - related query are rarely binary, which is why we continue to run controlled search after controlled search until our gut tells us, «I think we got it» (or we know the client won't pay for any more research time).

Our discussion this time around focused on the frustration some research lawyers still feel in their role not being fully understood by others in their law firm or by clients.

Legal research lawyers of course have one nice «example» to rely on, being the success that Bertha Wilson had in setting up Oslers» legal research department, as discussed numerous times on SLAW including here.

For example, tracking non-billable librarian research time and quantifying that with the estimated dollar figure of enabled lawyer billable hours.

Common symptoms of information overload for lawyers include spending too much time conducting research, having trouble recreating research time for billing purposes, and wasting time searching for old e-mails and documents.

It's that time of year when law students turn into lawyer - trainees, whether because of articling or summer jobs, and from everything I've heard most hiring law firms give their students a crash course in legal research.

CPD is in largest measure a waste of time and resources that could be far more profitably applied to creating an encrypted, key - worded data base of precedents, relevant case law, and other materials (not unlike the old bar ad materials except these would be updated continuously as needed every year past your call) that all lawyers could access for research purposes at any time; i.e., the time they need it.

The fact of the matter is that lawyers use books as research tools much of the time.

Most lawyers are doing routine work which they have done N (where N is a large number) times before; they do not need to do research to be able to do what they know very well how to do.

When I looked at the numbers for my most - popular posts of the years, the leader by a wide margin was a keyboard designed for lawyers, followed by a voice app for keeping time and a new legal research service.

Electronic resources allow lawyers to carry out research while on the road (rather than having to wait to get back to their firm library), reducing the time taken to answer a client's question.

For example, an electronic resource that makes research more efficient means that, even though clients are paying database charges, the costs are less overall since the lawyer spent less time carrying out the research.

I'd like everyone's feedback on an issue that arises from time to time when I talk with other research lawyers in Calgary.

I spend all of my time researching legal consumers so that lawyers can help them better.

Brad Clark: Well, a lot of our business is expungement, which are people that have been out of jail, have been out of trouble for five to 10 plus years and so that doesn't apply to that but then as far as like DUIs, there will be some people that do call lawyers that night, you are provided time to call a lawyer when you are arrested for DUI but then there are a lot of people that they bond out the next morning and they're depressed and they're sitting on their couch and they're trying to research things online and that's when the marketing happens, that's when the connection happens, and the client contacts you.

I can't help feeling that had the research been conducted in the US, where law firms have a far greater public commitment to pro bono work and where commercial lawyers are more likely to spend time in public office, the lawyers would have come across as being a little more broad - minded and worldly.

Of course there are ways to reduce the hard costs in QL and ecarswell research, but, depending on the rate of the lawyer doing the research, these savings might be outweighed by additional time that may be spent.

Taking time to research and choose the best lawyer for your case, however, can ultimately make a world of difference in the outcome.

It is quite probable that you want to do a little more research into the accident lawyers at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. and to find out more about the process of an accident lawsuit in Kansas or Missouri at the same time.

Saying that, since an international trend nowadays appears to be that clients are becoming «increasingly keen to consider more junior level lawyers, with the prime time for a first in - house move being around 18 months PQE», it's definitely worth doing your research and putting the feelers out early.

The organization equips lawyers with all of the tools necessary to run a successful practice in the 21st century, including tools like, document management, legal accounting and bookkeeping, Fastcase research, time - tracking, and billing.

Many Rule 11 Motions are poorly researched because lawyers do not want to waste time on a Motion they may never bring, if the opposing side can simply withdraw the offending document during the Safe Harbor period.

By implementing ROSS and sparing its lawyers the onus of research, a law firm should be able to handle more matters in the same amount of time, increasing the lawyers» productivity and the firm's profitability.

The integration enables lawyers who are subscribers to both services to easily track their research time in Casemaker using CosmoLex's time - tracking capabilities and associate the time with matters in CosmoLex.