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When doing legal research, is it easier to use online sources or books? Which produces better results? Can you even do it all online, if you want to? As part of the answer to this, the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries have a web page …Continue Reading Legal research: print or online?
The Massachusetts Library System recently posted an online guide with resources to help citizens evaluate information online and hone media-literacy skills. Included is a popular eight-point informational graphic from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and is a concise, single-page tipsheet. One of the points is …Continue Reading Online information: access and veracity
“ABA President Paulette Brown (2015-16) led the Diversity and Inclusion 360 Commission in its one-year inquiry into how to develop sustainable action plans that would advance diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, the judicial system and the ABA itself.” The Commission’s work resulted in policies, online …Continue Reading American Bar Association adds diversity portal to website
Representing yourself in court without a lawyer is not a new idea. Books designed to help self-represented litigants were published as early as the second quarter of the eighteenth century. “Some earlier books were aimed partly at a non-legal audience, particularly readers dealing with the …Continue Reading Every Woman Her Own Lawyer
Words of law is a regular feature of Massachusetts Law Updates, highlighting a particular word or phrase and its meaning in law. Today’s phrase is “ guardian ad litem” Guardian ad litem (ad Li-tem) (18c) A guardian, usu. a lawyer, appointed by the court to appear …Continue Reading Word(s) of the Month- Guardian ad litem
The Probate and Family Court has published the second edition of the MUPC Estate Administration Procedural Guide. It reflects the development of procedures since the publication of the first edition four years ago. It is an excellent source, and we recommend it for anyone involved …Continue Reading New MUPC Procedural Guide for Administration of Estates
All works under copyright protection published in the United States are subject to the mandatory deposit provision of the copyright law. Two copies of each work must be sent to the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office within three months of publication. (17 U.S.Code § 407) …Continue Reading Legal Deposit in the Electronic Age
American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice are available, with commentary, on the internet. The standards were first created, beginning in 1964, and implemented as part of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Standards Project . “When the final volume of the first edition of the Standards …Continue Reading ABA Criminal Justice Standards
legalese. (1914) The peculiar language of lawyers; esp., the speech and writing of lawyers at their communicative worst, characterized by antique jargon, pomposity, affected displays of precision, ponderous abstractions, and hocus-pocus incantations. plain language. Plain language (also called Plain English) is communication your audience can …Continue Reading Plain Language and the Law
Black’s Law Dictionary defines the treatise as “an extended, serious, and usually exhaustive book on a particular subject.” Joseph Story (1779-1845), lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, set the bar high in the early years of our country by writing the formative …Continue Reading Legal Treatises Considered
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