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The Corruption of Legal Research

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Two bits of reading that came across my desk, each charged with pointing out, from the perspectives of practising lawyer – and law firm librarian – where so many young lawyers fall short on legal research matters.

From Scott Stolley, a piece from the Defense Research Institute on The Corruption of Legal Research;

and from two senior librarians at Cadwalader, the most establishmentThough having said that, at the LMA Your Honor Awards in February, we gave them first place for an announcement regarding the New York office move to One World Financial Center and the Real Deal recruiting materials at the Legal Marketing Association’s 2005 Your Honor Awards, as well as second-place honors for their recruiting microsite and e-brochure and third-place for The Cadwalader Principle, the firm capabilities brochure. of the big city firms, Bridging the Generation Gap Over Legal Research.

Useful reminder from Cadwalader’s library team of the importance of using all media for legal research. The lesson needs to be learned by young lawyers from every country. It’s reassuring in the land of wall to wall Lexis and Westlaw coverage, that experienced librarians of their ilk, sound the tocsin on research technique failings.

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  1. Daniel Perlin
    July 11th, 2006 at 9:28 am

    As a reference librarian at Osgoode Hall law school, I see so many students who merely go to the the online databases such as Quicklaw to find case law. As Stolley’s article points out, many of them don’t take the time to go through other avenues, such as trying to find a journal article, or going through words and phrases, or even legal dictionaries. When the library staff try to explain these other areas of research, they look at us like we’re nuts.