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 research and writing, practice, and technology.

Practice

Welcome the New Tipsters…
David Bilinsky

Changes are coming to SlawTips! I would like to introduce our new enhanced team of practice tipsters. Our team will now include: Michael McCubbin, Vancouver; Andrea Cannavina, New York City; Stacey Gerrard, Halifax; Sandra Bekhor, Toronto; Mark Morris, Toronto; Elizabeth Mah, Vancouver; Bjorn (Barney) Christianson, Portage la Prairie; Ian Hu, Toronto. …

Research & Writing

Use LexBox for Case Law Monitoring on CanLII
Bronwyn Guiton

In 2011 Shaunna Mireau wrote about the usefulness of CanLII as a monitoring tool for the latest decisions in an area of law. I’m updating that tip by highlighting the value added by LexBox for this sort of CanLII monitoring. As Shaunna wrote, the basic approach to using CanLII for decision monitoring is a quick three step process. …