Like most law schools, the second semester of my first
year legal research and writing course involved a class wide moot court competition where I had to make an appellate argument based on a current legal issue.
The successful candidate will teach two sections each semester (approximately 20 students per section; a 2/2 course load) of Lawyering Skills I & II, the required two - semester first -
year legal research, writing, and analysis course.
As part of my first
year legal research and writing course I completed a mandatory moot.
In the 1990s, UBC Law's mandatory first -
year Legal Research & Writing Program served me well.
I taught in Stanford's fellowship program, which is similar to, but not the same as (or, as my seventh grade math teacher always said — when she wasn't saying «I'm from the show me state Missouri, so you'd better show me» — «it's the same but different») programs at Harvard, Chicago, NYU, and elsewhere, in that Fellows teach the first
year legal research and writing curriculum while preparing to go on the tenure - track market.
Teach legal research skills and courses to law students, particularly the first
year legal research and writing curriculum.
It would have to be supplemented with readings on legal reasoning and analysis to be appropriate for a first
year legal research and writing course.
239 Kirsten K. Davis, Designing and Using Peer Review in a First -
Year Legal Research & Writing Course, 9 Leg.
Although we will refer to these programs as LRW programs, this Article is inclusive of any first -
year legal research and writing class that serves to provide students with the basic skills in researching legal issues and drafting the documents meant to convey that research, such as memoranda, briefs, and client letters.
79 Caroline L. Osborne, The State of Legal Research Education: A Survey of First -
Year Legal Research Programs, or «Why Johnny and Jane Can not Research,» 108Law Libr.
Ideally, a first -
year legal research and writing course would have no more than thirty to thirty - five students.79 Most legal writing classes are at or above this ideal class size.80 Professors already spend an average of more than forty hours a semester in mandatory (or strongly recommended) conferences.81 Professors guiding students through upper - level writing experiences also often meet with students individually multiple times over the course of the semester, but these meetings alone can not meet the needs of the individual student writers.
When I saw the press release, U.S. Courts Awards 5 -
Year Legal Research Contract to LexisNexis, my first thought was, «Does this exclude Westlaw as a research option for federal judges and staff?»
Opening the door to the world of international and foreign law in the context of first -
year legal research and writing will help our students recognize and prepare to work effectively in the global legal practice that awaits them.
5 Bonny L. Tavares & Rebecca L. Scalio, Teaching After Dark: Part - Time Evening Students and the First -
Year Legal Research & Writing Classroom, 17 Leg.
McGeorge has a two -
year legal research and writing program — Global Lawyering Skills (GLS)-- that is designed to produce skilled, practice - ready graduates.
It probably isn't realistic to suggest that one can gain enough experience within a first -
year legal research unit to become a widely experienced researcher.45 But each additional experience is exponentially more valuable than the one to three experiences that most students get in the typical legal - writing class.
Not exact matches
There were 3,400
legal defenses mounted by small businesses in 2011 for patent cases, a 32 % increase over the prior
year, according to
research paper from 2012 by Boston University law professors James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer.
Mentions of «cryptocurrency» (digital currencies not tied to any country's
legal tender) and related terms including «bitcoin» and «ethereum» (the two most popular cryptocurrencies), «blockchain» (the technology underlying these currencies), and «initial coin offering» (or ICO, which lets companies raise capital through the creation of a new cryptocurrency) have skyrocketed over the last seven
years, according to data from Sentieo, a financial
research firm.
The
legal maneuvers come amid a slowdown in smartphone sales, which are growing at about 1 percent after several
years of double digit annual growth, according to industry
research firm International Data Corp..
The question of whether or not
legal marijuana takes of a bite out of alcohol sales has been hotly debated in recent
years, with some
research suggesting the two products are substitutes and other
research suggesting cannabis and alcohol sales are complementary.
Major alcohol companies will likely see sales squeezed by
legal cannabis in the coming
years, according to Wall Street
research firm CFRA R
research firm CFRA
ResearchResearch.
Ride service behemoth Uber is currently using its
legal resources to focus on
researching an internet address that could lead to locating the hacker behind its major data breach earlier this
year.
Audrey Mogan, a
legal project worker at the Aire Centre, an organisation which provides
legal advice on European human rights, has been
researching and collecting evidence on Nexus for over a
year.
Fifteen
years ago, Pearl brought to her S&T Policy fellowship three
years of postdoctoral mathematics
research, experience designing a novel master's program at Rice University, time as a college - level mathematics teacher and a period delving into the technical and
legal world of intellectual property.
The filing supports the Arizona Board of Regents and the University of Arizona's custodian of public records in their efforts to deflect the
legal challenge of a group seeking the public release of 13
years of the two Arizona scientists» emailed correspondence with other scientists and organizations about their
research.
The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy held a conference in 2001 to celebrate 10
years of conducting
research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the
research on the ethical,
legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI
Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the
Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the Future.
A leading psychopathy researcher has used the threat of
legal action to have changes made to a
research paper critical of a widely used criminological rating scale he developed 20
years ago.
Two New York
research chimpanzees have been returned to the organization that owns them, effectively ending a 2 -
year legal battle to have the animals declared
legal persons.
After
years of experiments, a protracted battle to grant them
legal «personhood,» and a life spent bouncing between two scientific facilities, two of the world's most famous
research chimpanzees have finally retired.
A U.S. appeals court today upheld the legality of federally funded
research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)-- the latest in a string of wins for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a 3 -
year legal battle with groups that for moral reasons want to block the use of these cells.
«Over the past five to 10
years, types of illicit drugs used around the world have been created or repurposed from
research chemicals to mimic the effects of traditional drugs of abuse in order to circumvent
legal control and detection,» explained corresponding author Sabra Botch - Jones, MS, MA, D - ABFT, forensic toxicologist and instructor in the Biomedical Forensic Sciences program in the department of anatomy and neurobiology at BUSM.
After several tries, we were ultimately awarded a two -
year grant from the Ethical,
Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Program of the National Human Genome
Research Institute in early 1998; then a continuation grant extended support to March 2004.
With over twenty
years of
legal experience as a Litigation Paralegal, Tish provides solid analytical and
research skills that focus on business ethics for her clients.
The Congressional
Research Service released a report that analyzed the
legal basis for the «supplement, not supplant» language that the Dept. of Education proposed during negotiated rulemaking earlier this
year.
(Thanks to EFF
legal intern Hannah Bloch - Wehba for her
research and assistance in preparing this
year's chart.)
(AP)-- Struggling BlackBerry - maker
Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief
legal officer is retiring from the company after 12
years.
Grace Rosales is a
research professional with over 20
years legal experience.
Developing countries have been among the leaders in
research and development of renewable energy projects in recent
years, although some face
legal and regulatory hurdles.
Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital
Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last
year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and
legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy cha
legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work
Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy cha
Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other
legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy cha
legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.
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 1995, Lexum was established as a team to continue the exploration of the Internet's potential for the dissemination of
legal information (ten
years later in 2005, Lexum was to become an independent
research entity at the U. of Montreal, the LexUM Lab).
LAO LAW now has a 34 -
year history of success, popularity, of saving LAO millions in paying lawyers» accounts, and of being the best
legal research unit in Canada.
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.
Fresh on the heels of Casetext's
legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the
year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results.
I've just emerged from a few weeks of first -
year law student
legal research instruction.
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.
The law school's Tarlton Law Library convened the conference, Teaching the Teachers: Effective Instruction in
Legal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research sk
Legal Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test legal - research
Research, largely in response to the National Conference of Bar Examiners» announcement last
year that it would explore an add - on to the bar exam that would test
legal - research sk
legal -
researchresearch skills.
Almost a
year ago, I wrote here about the major upgrade in the works for the Casemaker
legal research service.
New
research from
Legal Week highlights the mountain that UK firms need to climb in order to compete for talent in a global marketplace, with partner profits at the top 10 US firms growing by roughly 50 % more than their equivalent UK rivals over the last five
years.
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 lib
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 lib
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 library.