Sentences with phrase «wrote about the legal research»

Last week, I wrote about the legal research platform's rollout of a major redesign of its user interface and search experience.

Last week, I wrote about another legal research site, Casetext, that is planning to do something similar by adding law firm client alerts distributed via JD Supra.

Not exact matches

The goal of the blog is to write about legal news, new court decisions, current news, legal trends as well as news and information about BLS Law Library materials and events, legal writing and research, and online legal resources.

Ideal candidates will have strong writing and analytical skills, the ability to work within tight deadlines on multiple projects simultaneously, exceptional legal research skills, and a desire to learn about the nation's transportation industry.

The goal of the blog is to write about legal news, new court decisions, current news, legal trends as well as news and information about BLS Law Library materials and events, legal writing and research, and online legal resources.

Two years ago, I wrote a post titled, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.

Using the confluence of Education Week and the start date of our law firm's summer students, I am choosing to write about some upcoming training sessions for law students and those who ensure law students are office ready vis - a-vis legal research.

Almost a year ago, I wrote here about the major upgrade in the works for the Casemaker legal research service.

Think about how legal issues and technology are changing and their near - future implications and the types of things new grads typically ought to be able to do for employers: discovery / e-discovery, planning and writing research memos and legal analysis, noting up case law, relevant note taking and client interview techniques / etiquette.

Every legal researcher has come across the phrase in a judicial opinion, «It is well settled that...,» or, «It is axiomatic that...» In 2014, I wrote about a prototype legal research website that mined opinions for instances of these phrases and made them searchable as a way of helping researchers find statements of -LSB-...]

I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced research site at which users post legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.

In addition to advising our clients about their online brand positioning and strategy, Jordan works incredibly hard researching and writing about the changing legal profession.

I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the Minnesota State Bar Association's decision to switch back to Fastcase as a member legal - research benefit, just six months after leaving Fastcase for Casemaker.

I've written both here and for the ABA Journal about Casetext, a free legal research platform that uses crowdsourcing to add annotations and descriptions to cases.

The letter expressed concern that the blog post in question sent «a message that legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»

I wrote previously about CuroLegal's development of a site for the New York State Bar Association, LawHUB, designed to streamline member access to all of its legal content, research, and practice management tools.

The week features a mix of reflective pieces on the nature of legal research and writing and the teaching and learning of the same in legal education, and substantive posts students wrote about their major memo legal research.

My day - one poll of the students generally suggests some feel uncertainty about their legal research and writing skills as they prepare to enter the profession, and they take the course almost as «remedial legal research and writing,» to borrow the words of a colleague.

For «niche» blogs covering specialized areas of the law that aim primarily to, say, educate readers about new court decisions on a relevant topic, I don't see why a ghostwriter with a strong legal research and writing background can't do that effectively for a lawyer simply too busy to do all the spadework.

As I wrote yesterday at my LawSites blog, it is notable that this public - domain database will come about with the cooperation of a for - profit legal research company.

In October 2010, I wrote about the roll - out of Lexis Advance for Solos, the flat - rate legal research platform targeted at one - and two - lawyer firms.

I plan to blog my way through this experience as a way of reflecting upon and retaining what I'm learning — about legal research, writing and drafting, oral and written advocacy and what thinking like a lawyer means in an increasingly dynamic legal profession.

Much has been written about the need to fill gaps in law graduates» legal research proficiencies.

After all, throughout undergraduate school — and perhaps even during masters» programs — that's the mindset: get «enough» sources to write a paper; then write «enough» pages to meet the minimum.50 Of course, experienced lawyers know that legal research isn't about getting some finite number of cases.

In your legal writing class during the week of [date], you will be observing a simulated mediation of the problem you wrote about for your closed and research memo assignments.

Maryland's curriculum underwent an extensive review in 1999 — 2000, and significant changes to the writing program came about in the resulting curricular reform of 2000.19 The new curriculum increased the number of credits devoted to required legal writing and research classes, particularly in the first semester.

In writing about literature you have to make sure your scholarship is right in the same way you research a legal problem.

I write about some emerging innovators in this area, such as Ravel, a legal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about thelegal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about theLegal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the law.

Above all, your topic choice, legal or otherwise, should be something you enjoy researching and writing about, but not something you are so invested in you are willing to get into fights with strangers on the internet about it.

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

Spend a lot of time thinking about, planning, and researching your legal blog before you set down to start writing.

While I have spent many hours thinking about effective legal research and writing training, it was not until I picked up this newsletter that I was reminded of one of the keys to learning (at least according to some of my 12 year old son's teachers).

I have in the past complained about the abysmal lack of online access to Canadian court dockets at the same time as trying to compile a list of known links to Canadian court dockets to my Case Law research page on my legal research and writing website.

It has been many years since I attended law school — while I know we had complaints about our legal research and writing courses, I don't think this was our issue.

Our library orientation session starts with an associate talking about legal research and writing memos, including some of the most common pitfalls.

We're skilled in researching and writing about complex legal topics in a way that your website visitors will understand.

Several Slaw contributors have written recently about the use of artificial intelligence in law (Tim Knight here, Nate Russell here) with particular reference to the program on «Computers in Legal Research» at the conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries held in Vancouver this past May, moderated by Slaw's Steve Matthews.

Last month, I wrote about Judicata, a legal research that had just emerged into public view after five years of development in stealth mode.

A few weeks ago, in a post here about Fastcase's addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I wrote that for any legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw and LexisNexis, «secondary content is the Holy Grail.»

It was one year ago that I first wrote here about Casetext, the free legal research site that uses «crowdsourcing» to annotate court opinions.

which I most recently wrote about in July, when it released the latest iteration of its legal research platform.

In a post yesterday, In Litigation and Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I wrote about three websites that provide data and analytics about judges.

I have written books, made cassette tapes, video tapes and DVDs about legal research.

I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced research site at which users post legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases -LSB-...]

Alan Kilpatrick, a law librarian with the Law Society of Saskatchewan (LSS), wrote earlier this month on the Legal Sourcery blog about a new Primer to Legislative Research Across the Provinces and Territories published by the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (the linked version is a reprint by the LSS).

Take iPad in One Hour for Litigators, 2nd edition and Internet Legal Research on a Budget, for example: Jennifer Ellis says, «The thing that impresses me most about iPad in One Hour for Litigators, (written by Tom Mighell), is how it immediately gets down to business and provides practical guidance on how to make the best use of an iPad.

Questions were raised about how much students get out of blogging, especially in writing short pieces (if that is all they do), and Moin gave a strong defence of the merits of having students blog on a common theme over the course of several weeks as an organic, multi-faceted approach to legal research and writing.

This webpage from Ted Tjaden's Legal Research and Writing website provides access to information about and links to Canadian case law, as well as links for those jurisdictions that provide online access to court dockets.

If you need legal research and writing assistance, contact our attorneys to learn more about how we can help you with your case.