Students in Toronto are already trying to put IBM's Watson to
work doing legal research, and that is surely just the tip of the iceberg.
Not exact matches
Scientists
doing dual use
research — beneficial
work that may be misapplied for malicious purposes in the wrong hands — need more tools to help them understand the scientific, ethical and
legal issues surrounding their
work, according to a AAAS - sponsored workshop report.
In a way, the distinction is moot: Regardless of our exact
legal status, junior researchers still
do academic
research — our professional
work.
That question led to a list of 16 young men and women who are launching and leading organizations that will lead in the transformation of public education over the next decade, as well as people who are
doing important
research,
legal, political, and policy
work that will shape the future of education reform.
«We
did our own
research in Canada in terms of are the markets the same,
does the pricing
work the same, if there was a wrongful act in the United States,
did that same act take place in Canada and therefore would the same
legal claims exist?
After spending my first two years of law school
doing legal research, reading, and writing in the classroom, I jumped at the chance to get out of the classroom and actually
work as an environmental advocate.
In the support - services method,
legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists in
doing legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's
work - product is captured for use in future
research projects.
Making
legal research seem as difficult as possible has a certain appeal, especially for those who will have to
do that
work professionally.
Legal Research & Writing:
Working 9 to 5 — Labor and employment resources that get the job
done.
Even though some corporations have been
working on applying AI in
legal research for a while, it is a complex task because AIs can't
do all the magic.
2 - Will you bill me more if you have to
do «extra»
work; i.e.,
researching legal issues, writing
legal memoranda, arguing motions, rejecting unacceptable offers from prosecutors and judges and making additional court appearances, or even trying the case in a jury trial.
It is important to
do plenty of
research and choose a medical malpractice lawyer with many years of experience in medical negligence
legal work.
In reality, most of the
work a criminal defense attorney
does involves investigating,
researching, and developing
legal arguments.
This
research shows that they are a first port of call for many businesses, but a number of these consultants
do not have any professional qualifications and may employ the goal of eliminating all risk from the workplace rather than setting a proportionate approach to dealing with the Health and Safety at
Work Act and other
legal requirements.
It's obvious that AI will bring many new tools to
legal work and
research (it already
does), but our tendency to see it initially as something that will merely
do an old job better is very similar to Kelly's examples in the above quote.
Doing so effectively calls for
research skills beyond those that students acquire through
working with domestic
legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly
works, and she points out that civil law
research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American
legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international
legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the
research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.
Legal research does matter, it is the gist of the lawyer's
work.
«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling services offshore have focused mainly on the routine grunt
work that is often
done by junior lawyers, such as
research, in which lawyers comb through
legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»
As Big Data is applied across multiple aspects and categories of
work done by law firms internally and on behalf of their clients,
legal research has been slow to keep pace.
This list excludes the excellent AI
work being
done for electronic discovery and
legal research, as well as IBM's Outside Counsel Insights (OCI) and other «business of law»
work.
And there are many other parts of lawyers»
work that can be more competently and cost - efficiently
done by specialized
legal research support services than general practitioners can
do it.
More like gradual change — and you can still find law books in every law library that
work perfectly well for
doing legal research.
Craft is currently
doing research for the Anishinaabe nibi inaakonigewin project,
working with Anishinaabe elders to better understand
legal principles relating to water.
For example,
legal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid c
legal research support services available to all lawyers at cost, i.e., because no law firm would have enough
legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who do Legal Aid c
legal research work to afford such specialist lawyers, they would have to be made available to all lawyers by way of support services such as is LAO LAW available to all lawyers who
do Legal Aid c
Legal Aid cases.
Since 1999, the Award has been given by the Association every year to acknowledge the
work that is
done by publishers to provide the Canadian
legal profession with high quality materials for use in understanding and
researching the law.
As such, I think there is still much
work to be
done in the field of Advanced
Legal Research in our law schools.
In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we
work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to
do academic
research and writing, as well as how to
do practical
legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries
do not have to contend with, unless they also
work in professional schools.
Yes, lawyers can outsource some
work such as
legal research, and the profession takes advantage of that, to the client's benefit, where it makes sense to
do so.
With the growing trend of fixed fee pricing, alternative fee arrangements, and other pre-arranged cost structures for
legal work, it is more important than ever for a researcher to know several things that don't relate to the problem their
research is attempting to answer:...
Rhim kindly agreed to tell readers about the
work he is
doing in South Korea and what the latest version of his application will
do, which at present focuses on
legal research.
Initially taking
work from both, juniors «
do a lot of
legal research and writing memos.
The program will include topics such as:
legal market statistics; the one thing EVERY
legal vendor should
do... and it's free; where to get marketing
research; stats on purchasing budgets and trends;
working with the new
legal media landscape; and content marketing insights.
As a volunteer for a PBSC project, you can expect to
work three to five hours a week
doing legal research and writing, assisting duty counsel at the Courts, or casework advocacy, depending on your specific project.
While I don't know of any solid data to back claims for the value of applying project management standards to
legal work, the Project Management Institute has sponsored
research to make the case for the value of Project Management in general.
Legal research innovators like Fastcase and RavelLaw have
done that hard
work, and added visualizations to improve the utility of results.
It got me thinking about something I've noticed
working in
legal information: lawyers don't mean the same thing when they talk about
legal research as librarians
do.
• If you don't wish to meet with a student clinician, you are welcome to drop by and use our self - help computer and library to
do online
research and
work on
legal forms.
Much of the
work Michael
does crosses borders and a number of the deals he has
worked on have been recognised by the
legal industry's
research and award bodies for their innovation and market impact.
Crowdsourcing
Legal Research Won't
Work Because It Doesn't Help the Majority: Solo and Small Law Firms
To ultimately decide whether a
legal career is right for you, it is vital that you
do your
research and obtain some law
work experience at the earliest possible stage.
As automation begins to nip at the heels of that
work, LPOs are wisely moving up the value and risk chain and
doing more substantive
work, such as
legal research, compliance projects, and, of course, contract review.
Now,
legal tech is beginning to really impact the
work lawyers
do related to their
legal training and experience: contract review, risk analysis, pleadings,
legal research, and other areas.
In
legal research, the hardest
work is «practical implementation against good data at scale;»
legal research innovators like Fastcase and RavelLaw have already
done that
work, and are adding visualization to enhance its usefulness.
While computers are not perfect in
doing legal research, artificial intelligence has developed thanks to the
work ROSS has
done, to the point where a lot of the
work can be
done much more productively — and that's productively for lawyers, students and law clerks — but also for their clients.
In Seattle there are many lawyers who, for whatever reason,
do not wish to
work full time and so contract out their
legal research services for anywhere from $ 30 to $ 70.
Many parts of lawyers»
work, such as
legal research, should be
done by highly specialized, high volume support services, available to all lawyers and judges.
«During my association with an Indian law firm at the start of my career, I realized that I was more interested in
doing work relating to
legal research and drafting than practicing law,»
We are
doing legal research and insurance
work for Al Pacino's next film.
When I was in the
Legal Division of the
Research Branch (of the Library of Parliament) most of the
work we
did was for the opposition and gov» t backbenchers because they didn't have access to the Ministries lawyers and other experts.
My
work with the knowledge management folks suggests that we shouldn't be too ambitious in attempting to divide up the world of Canadian
legal research, what we know and what we
do.