Description
American business man and former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer once stated, “The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” The goal of this course today is to harnessing the potential as attorneys to learn things about online legal research you didn’t think you could learn before. This course is going to be a deeper dive into online legal research. According to the model rules of professional conduct, attorneys need to maintain competency, and a component of maintaining competency is to keep abreast of the benefits and risks of relevant technology. By the end of this course you all will be made aware of advanced online legal research methods to harness your potential as a researcher and to maintain a standard of competency in the legal profession.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
• Discover how online legal research can assist you in search methodology
• Leverage provided connections, common terms, and formatting of content.
• Obtain visual representations of the validity of cases and statutes.
• Learn how online legal research platforms provide organization methods, delivery methods, and recovery methods so you can better maintain your research.
• Gather information by practice area, topic, jurisdiction or publisher.
• Realize alternative and advanced ways to begin research with statutes.
• Acquire archived materials in multiple ways.
• Find connections between results of separate searches.
If you are licensed in New York, this content is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced New York attorneys. Although, this content is appropriate for all New York attorneys, newly admitted attorneys cannot earn CLE credit for the completion of the course when presented via webinar or webcast.