Sentences with phrase «using law libraries»

According to the article, the majority of people using law libraries are seeking information on family law issues.

According to at least one article, more and more individuals are using law libraries to represent themselves Pro Se.

I learned how to use a law library and gained effective research skills with the ability to access primary and secondary sources and value their relative authority.

I have talked with more then one client who started out by using the law library, or another free resource for legal help, and still ended up hiring us.

Students will continue to use law libraries as long as they continue to be friendly, comfortable places to work.

Given that most students can do the majority of their legal research on - line from the comfort of their own homes, why do students even bother using a law library?

Furthermore, students who are encouraged to use the law library will have exposure to important resources including law librarians.

And an ex-BigLaw partner has left his firm to form a bankruptcy boutique that uses artificial intelligence - powered legal research from ROSS Intelligence to replace junior lawyers who use law libraries for such support in traditional firms (like the one he left).

Another case involved an undergraduate student, charged with disorderly conduct for his behavior at the law library at his university, who argued that he had a constitutional right to use the law library.

Slaw readers of a certain age will remember her meticulous work «Using a law library: a guide for students and lawyers in the common law provinces of Canada» which went through six editions between 1974 and 1994... [more]

Would you allow your rival into your office to access and use your law library, secretary, paralegals and clerks?

Not exact matches

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At this time, Libby is only available for public libraries, so you won't be able to use Libby with school, corporate, college, or law libraries.»

I found my freebies at B&N (thanks, Sheleen) and set up Overdrive Media, got set up with Adobe for certification, and downloaded a book from my sister in law's library using her #.

During the school year, some of our members found glue traps in our library on campus and decided to demand that both the University of Baltimore undergraduate and law schools discontinue the use of these cruel devices.

For Priebe, who often uses books that have been deaccessioned from libraries as materials in her work, books become fodder for immersive installations populated by towers of tomes and swirling streams of pages that appear to defy the laws of physics.

Last week, Mr. Malamud began using advanced computer scanning technology to copy decisions, which have been available only in law libraries or via subscription from the Thomson West unit of the Canadian publishing conglomerate Thomson, and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, based in London.

You can also cut corners on your legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law libraLaw Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law libralaw library.

That is, using RSS to reduce all those paper advertisements funnelling into law libraries & law firms around the country.

Anyone who has studied law will have used a library at some point in their studies.

On the other hand, the use of a digital tool like Carrot2 might help a student who is not in a library or well - stocked law office and can't figure out how to begin the research.

Many people have been using factiva for U.S. trading data; however, law firm libraries are slowly losing their right to use factiva as our contracts expire and we get moved over to Lexis Nexis for this information.

I don't subscribe to them, but when I go to the law library, it's a treat to pore through the articles from 60 or 70 years ago and read about the law as it used to be.

In September of first year, I remember learning about how to use Quicklaw on the bank of computers found in the library, but much more emphasis was placed on how to find cases in series like the Supreme Court Reporter, Western Weekly Reports, Dominion Law Reports or Manitoba Reports.

I just have one problem with this article — saying that at law society law libraries the public are not welcome — that is not true — law society libraries have embraced access to justice initiatives that allow for members of the public to come and use the resources on site.

Bookings could be easily managed by the library, using a simple self - serve online app like the one we used at my former law school for student study room bookings.

Ontario used to have a «roving law librarian», whose job it was to visit each of the province's 48 county courthouse libraries, ensuring the local librarian was up - to - date in her online research skills and offering research seminars to local lawyers.

The same could be true of the next generation of lawyers and their current legal research professors.2 We have likely reached a point at which our frames of reference diverge sufficiently that we don't share a common reference point for approaching the structure of legal research.3 Arguably, the tech - saturated millennials need a solid research foundation more than any generation before them.4 Yet many of them regard our legal research instruction as cumbersome or outdated.5 Having grown up using intuitive electronic devices, and using them to good advantage, 6 many modern law students resist legal research methods that require rigidity, formality, or — worst of all — a trip to a print library.7 Indeed, many of them are downright «mistrustful both of physical libraries and of those who extol their virtues.»

Lawyers at big firms had online research accounts and solos went to the law library to use the books.

What I got from the session was that law librarians (outside of universities, at least) are all in the same situation at the moment regards to eBooks: we are waiting for eBooks that reflect how our clients use our library materials, and which a) do not have overly restrictive licensing, b) are not horrendously expensive and c) are reasonably easy for clients to use.

Given that law libraries, whether academic, courthouse or private law firm, are constantly under space pressures, does this mean that we should be discarding the other 80 - 94 % of the collection and using the space for something else?

Law libraries — back in the day when Unix databases ruled the world, some of the library databases were also used for litigation such as BRS.

My law firm library is about content, access to enriched content, and delivering content in a manner that encourages use of our library services.

What are some strategies that you use to remind decision makers of work that the law library could be doing?

I've repeated this story enough times that I'm no longer sure it is even true: Way back in 1995, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, we introduced volume one, number one, of legal.online, the first - ever newsletter about how lawyers could use the Internet.

The Law Foundation of Ontario used to provide grants to Ontario's law school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice systLaw Foundation of Ontario used to provide grants to Ontario's law school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice systlaw school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice system.

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

A final suggestion is perhaps a strategy rather than a resource for indigenous law research: to scope the various elements of the KIA - KIX classifications the Library of Congress created in 2013 and use those classifications for library research.

For example, the use of online forms for auto - generating legal documents or for client intake, searchable and linkable law and file libraries, referral databases and other tools through the VLO may allow for the firm to avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new online client.

Yes, the legal research and writing faculty (who are often librarians) at your school has been using the law school library as a practice laboratory to give students the real world skills they need.

Today, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced the long - awaited replacement for Harry S. Martin, who has been director of the Harvard law Library -LRB-(Which is the most extraordinary law library I've ever used, with due apologies to Ruth at the Bodleian and David at the Great Library)-RRB- for 27 yeaLaw School Dean Elena Kagan announced the long - awaited replacement for Harry S. Martin, who has been director of the Harvard law Library -LRB-(Which is the most extraordinary law library I've ever used, with due apologies to Ruth at the Bodleian and David at the Great Library)-RRB- for 27 yealaw Library -LRB-(Which is the most extraordinary law library I've ever used, with due apologies to Ruth at the Bodleian and David at the Great Library)-RRB- for 27 yealaw library I've ever used, with due apologies to Ruth at the Bodleian and David at the Great Library)-RRB- for 27 years.

Over the last five years my library has discarded about half of its law reports, freeing up shelf space for items that were being used.

This pan-Canadian KF Modified classification, integrating common law and civil law materials into one integrated subject organization, is now in use at the Department of Justice libraries across Canada.

Libraries, other cultural heritage institutions as well as law firms, governments and a variety of organizations are all faced with signing various license agreements for the use of digital content.

For large academic libraries, it's simply cheaper and easier to use unmodified Library of Congress classification schedules to organize their law collections, despite the disadvantages for Canadian researchers.

In a way, Greg had the same problem that the junior lawyer in the law library had: he wasn't adapting his speech appropriately to the situation by using a higher register — that is, a more dignified level of speech.

The Milwaukee County Law Library (MCLL), the branch library at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, has three walk - in use computers.

One library or KM use of wikis in law firms that I think would be interesting to try is a research wiki for associates.

In 1979 the new technology was made available to students at Queen's: a computer terminal was placed in the library to permit access to the QL databaseMemorandum from Dean Adell to Law Students, «Re: Use of QL Systems terminal in Law Library» (6 November 1979) QA MAM Papers 1/3..