Author Archives: Shaunna Mireau
Look to the Commonwealth
Over at Slaw yesterday I posted about JADE – a web service for locating decision from Australia that is aimed at law firm users. Today’s Tip is about when you …
Analogies
The legal research process has some basic rules. I have often articulated the analysis part of the legal research process as this:
- Your job is to answer a question
Fast, Convenient and Mobile
Yesterday at Slaw I posted about some legal research apps. Today I want to tell you how I use my iPad for mobile research. For me, it is about …
Check Out Your Public Library
There are about 2300 public libraries in Canada. This doesn’t include a count of libraries with multiple branches. The bottom line is that most Canadians will have access to information …
Watch Your Email
Jack Newton posted an excellent email tip on Slaw way back in February 2013. He suggested creating an email rule that moved email with the word “unsubscribe” to a Robots …
Look for Webinar Opportunities
An event reminder by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries about the Substantive Law Webinar Series gets a Hat Tip for providing Today’s Research Tip. The Tip is to seek …
Not Quite Finished
My carpenter partner likes to say, “A House is a work in progress”. I agree. Just because you have a yellow kitchen this year doesn’t mean that you can’t decide …
Check Your Process
I just attended a lunch session with a Court of Appeal Justice on the topic of legal research. You might think, why would an experienced legal researcher and law librarian …
Happy National Punctuation Day
September 24 is National Punctuation Day in the U.S. Though this isn’t a statutory (or highly celebrated) holiday in Canada, the fact that there are people in the world who …
Tell the Story in Pictures
After all these years of reading cases there are still times when I get to the end and think, “Who won?”. This is especially true when parties are numerous and …
