The impediment of
traditional legal research services is that they just spew information and force lawyers to comb it painstakingly because these services simply use keyword matching to find relevant documents.
It
complements traditional legal research by mining, classifying and annotating legal data (currently caselaw from Canadian court websites or CanLII) to identify meaningful patterns and generate graphs that display those results in a meaningful way.
There are
traditional legal research tools that parse the numerical information in court judgments into statistical information to guide decision making in certain types of matters.
If your library can't afford to license Dialog or other very expensive non-legal academic databases, it is well worth the trouble getting that library card for those occasions when you have to venture outside the parameters
of traditional legal research.
Beyond
the traditional legal research and writing done by all summer associates, the legal technology associates will also work on applying blockchain and smart contract technology to real estate transactions, for example.
The traditional legal research and writing program and its instructors are simply too entrenched.
This is not
a traditional legal research tool in the sense that a law firm lawyer would use, but it does allow a corporate client a technology assisted solution for compliance with a myriad of local, regional and state - level regulations that are prone to change rapidly and with little notice.
When you look at text - based search results on Google or on
your traditional legal research services, they kind of all look the same, but they are not the same.
-- The new Casetext seamlessly integrates CARA A.I. contextual search functionality into
the traditional legal research workflow to help users find highly relevant cases faster and more efficiently than ever before;
That is, perhaps research or instruction in these other contexts is «peripherally» legal, or
traditional legal research.