Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on technology, research and practice.

Research

Defining Research Value
Shaunna Mireau

A Slaw.ca post by Lynn Foley last week provided the inspiration for today’s tip. Lynn asked Slawyers to consider what their clients perceive as value using the lens of the ACC Value Challenge. I ask Slaw Tips research readers to consider how the discrete piece of legal research they are doing adds value for the client. One of the most important skills a legal researcher can bring to a project is the ability to focus on the question they are trying to answer. …

Practice

A Time to Relax
David Bilinsky

There is a time to work …and there is a time to kick back and take it easy. We happen to be in that magical time between Canada Day and Independence Day for our cousins down south. So our post this week is – seize the moment and take the time …to relax…to detune…to enjoy the company of friends and family….