Google: to use, or not to use. What is the question?

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Choolhun
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Good Information ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Legal Information

AbstractThis article by Natasha Choolhun, with input from Emma Harris and colleagues, considers how the proliferation of freely available legal information has affected standards of information literacy and research capability in the current legal environment. Real life examples are given to illustrate how staff in law firms are using resources such as Google and Wikipedia in preference over authoritative legal material. The phrase “Google Generation” is explored and consideration is given to how law schools and commercial firms are attempting to instil in their lawyers principles of good information literacy and research skills.

scholarly journals An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Law Professors

This Essay consists of an invitation to participate in conversations about the future of legal education in ways that integrate rather than distinguish several threads of concern and revision that have emerged over the last decade. Conversations about the future of legal education necessarily include conversations about the future of law practice, legal services, and law itself. Some of those start with the somewhat stale questions: What are US law professors doing, what should they be doing, and why? Those questions are still relevant and important, but they are no longer the only relevant questions, and they are not the only places to start. What about other legal educators, meaning those who teach and train in legal services worlds but who don’t teach the professional practice of law or the delivery of traditional legal services? What about those who are involved deeply in the production and distribution of law, legal services, and legal information but who are not, themselves, lawyers? Why start with current teachers; why not start with current or future students, or current or future clients, or current or future institutions, or current or future sets of values? Expand the communities of interest and identities of potential participants not only beyond elite US law schools, and not only beyond the private law firms that constitute BigLaw, but also beyond the US and beyond North America. The invitation goes out, in short, to a much broader audience than US law professors, and it is framed in broad but pragmatic terms.

Information Literacy and the Google Generation: Teaching Research Skills to Sixth-Formers

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Literacy Standards ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Future Information ◽  
Sixth Form

AbstractThere is a perception in the legal information profession that levels of information literacy among law students and trainee solicitors are lower than they should be. In this article Ian Hunter considers if this starts at sixth form level and discusses the Google generation stereotype. Training sessions given to sixth-form students by the author are described and the students' levels of information literacy are considered against various information literacy standards. The suitability of these standards for sixth form students is assessed and suggestions for future information literacy training at school, HE and trainee solicitor level are discussed.

Legal Information and the Social Media: Some Current Issues

Libri ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-359
Author(s):  
Vicki Lawal ◽  
Peter G Underwood ◽  
Christine Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Population

Abstract This article examines the effect of the adoption of social media in legal practice in Nigeria. It discusses some of the major challenges that have recently been experienced in the use of legal information in Nigeria within the context of the social media revolution, particularly with respect to ethics. A survey method was employed and data was collected through self-administered questionnaires to the study population comprising practicing lawyers located in various law firms in Nigeria. Outcomes from the study provide preliminary evidence on the nature of the application of social media in legal practice and the prospects for its inclusion as an important aspect of legal research in the legal education system in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Strategies for knowledge management in law firms in Botswana

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.C. Fombad ◽  
J.A. Boon ◽  
T.J.D. Bothma
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

This article formulates a route map on how law firms in Botswana may utilise knowledge management to enhance their competitive edge amidst the changing legal environment. It draws from the multiple definitions and perspectives of knowledge management, several frameworks and models together with the empirical findings to recommend a strategy for knowledge management in law firms in Botswana. It underscores the fact that knowledge management is becoming an imperative for the survival of law firms as knowledge intensive organisations. Law firms in Botswana can no longer afford to rely on the traditional methods of managing knowledge because there is a need for the 'best minds' and the best knowledge in their area of practice. It is recommended that lawyers should be proactive, adaptive, innovative, effective and competitive in the provision of outstanding, cost-efficient and effective services to clients. Most previous studies in this area have been carried out in developed countries with large law firms.

scholarly journals From Literacy to Information Literacy: Reading for Understanding in the Real World

2021 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
John Royce
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Good Readers ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Process Failure ◽  
Vital Component

Good readers evaluate as they go along, open to triggers and alarms which warn that something is not quite right, or that something has not been understood. Evaluation is a vital component of information literacy, a keystone for reading with understanding. It is also a complex, complicated process. Failure to evaluate well may prove expensive. The nature and amount of information on the Internet make evaluation skills ever more necessary. Looking at research studies in reading and in evaluation, real-life problems are suggested for teaching, modelling and discussion, to bring greater awareness to good, and to less good, readers.

scholarly journals Beyond Google

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Carter
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Students First ◽  
Google Search

The internet is often students’ first choice when researching school assignments; however students’ online search strategies typically consist of a basic Google search and Wikipedia. The creation of library intranet pages providing a range of search tools and the teaching of customised information literacy lessons aim to better utilise library resources and improve students’ research skills and learning outcomes.

scholarly journals Faculty Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Skills: Nine Core Skills for Research Success

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Boglarka Huddleston ◽  
Jeffrey D. Bond ◽  
Linda L. Chenoweth ◽  
Tracy L. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Christian University ◽  
Reference Services ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
Literacy Initiatives ◽  
Student Capability

In an effort to improve information literacy initiatives at Texas Christian University, we sought to understand faculty members’ expectations and perceptions of undergraduate student research skills. We conducted three faculty focus groups (n=21) and an online survey (n=100) of faculty members. This study reveals a set of nine core research skills that faculty members expect students to possess. The study compares faculty members’ expectations against their perceptions of student capability for each of these nine core skills. Furthermore, this study examines who (librarians, faculty, or both) should have responsibility for teaching which research skills. These findings will inform the library’s information literacy initiatives, as well as have a strong influence on the library’s marketing and reference services.

Teaching Law

2017 ◽  
pp. 318-330
Author(s):  
Sheela Jayabalan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cognitive Apprenticeship ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
Black Letter ◽  
Teaching Pedagogies

Traditional methods of teaching law such as the lecture method, Socratic method or the case method has become the predominant teaching pedagogies in most law schools. Emphasis is on teaching law students the blackletter law. However, when law students complete their formal undergraduate studies and move on to practice law, they face the crisis of being unable to cerebral the black letter law to real life situations. Applying doctrinal analysis and the observation of law teaching in Malaysia from the authors own experience as a law lecturer, the author explicates in this chapter that the reason behind this crisis is because the traditional methods merely imparts the knowledge of law to students but does not stimulate and ignite the cognitive skills which should be the ultimatum of teaching law students. Traditional methods of teaching law should be reformed. Law students should be taught to apprehend the law to real life situations or problems using the cognitive apprenticeship method. In other words, putting the learner in the driver's seat.

Frames

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-72
Author(s):  
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
New Work ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Indian Law ◽  
Ideal Worker

This chapter explores the role of institutional novelty in moderating the experience of gender. It shows how the emergence of the Indian elite law firm has been uniquely shaped by the newness of the work and the organizational structure — as well as a new, neoliberal workforce not found in other professional firms of similar status. As new firms doing new work, these elite law firms are indeed advantaged by being able to escape strong preconceived notions of work and identity. In addition, the newness of the law schools that socialize these firms' workers contribute to the firms' multi-layered advantage, an advantage not enjoyed by other firms that are similarly structured by globalization but that draw their workforce from more long-established educational institutions. Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates how globalization and class come together to renegotiate traditional assumptions of gender and the framework of an ideal worker. It argues that the gender outcomes in these firms result not from a movement for gender equality, but instead from the emergence of the Indian law firm as a new site of high-prestige global labor.

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