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Join Jessica Brown, Head of Training, in this workshop focusing on making the most of your subscribed legal resources. Learn about leveraging primary law sources, indexing, taxonomies, expert interactions, and more to enhance your legal research efficiency and depth.
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Legal Research Workshop Jessica Brown Head of Training
AGENDA • Subscribed resources – a vendor view • Making the most of your resources • A worked example • BREAK • Put it into practice
SUBSCRIBED RESOURCES – VENDOR VIEW • Primary law sources – freely available • Demonstrate the value: • Time saving efficiencies • In depth analysis • Valued expertise • Investment • Technology & Functionality • Vendors create the value – you can (and should) utilise it
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • What does your subscription cover • Where do I start? • Indexing and Taxonomies • Know your resources • Submissions
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • What does your subscription cover? • Focus tends to be on premium sources or ‘numbers’. • Look for the added extras: • Research aids • Additional content/sources • Expert interaction • Full support services
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • Where do I start? • What am I trying to achieve? • Use the ‘introductions’ • Don’t automatically think search • Use subscribed sources to find external links
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • Indexing and Taxonomies • Vendors put a great deal of investment into fully indexing all documents • Taxonomies tend to be similar across services • Searching by keywords tends to be more effective • Don’t automatically think Edit – think Filter
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • Know your resources • every services has strengths and weaknesses • Know: • Frequency of updates across sources • Expertise – who is writing the content • Search connectors • Sometimes the ‘weakness’ can be a benefit
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • Submissions • Use the services you subscribe to, to achieve business objectives. • Most services accept some forms of external submission to their content. • Use those resources to advertise your organisations’ expertise.
A WORKED EXAMPLE A fee-earner has asked for wide-ranging background on religious marriage & divorce as the basis for an article they are writing. They would also like to know what procedures commonly arise in practice. • The Basis/Foundation of law • Primary Sources • Recommended Reading • Current news • Practice Guidance
MAKING THE MOST OF RESOURCES • What does your subscription cover • Where do I start? • Indexing and Taxonomies • Know your resources • Submissions