Author Archives: Shaunna Mireau

About Shaunna Mireau

Legal Information Specialist from Alberta. I am excited by the challenges of unearthing potential using Lean Six Sigma methodology in the legal environment. Advocate of law libraries, legal information, legal research, knowledge management and continuous improvement.

Wasted Legal Research

Today’s Tip was inspired by the CBA Futures Report at page 22


I have a circle on a page, and within that circle I have the word client. Around that …

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Next Sources and Research Habits

It is an excellent time to be involved in the legal information profession.  Rapid changes in legal publishing, legal informtion technologies, web functionality and the accessibility of information make legal …

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Stay Current

Today’s Tip was inspired by an email exchange with Anne Bowers of the Northumberland County Law Association Library. Anne and I were discussing how we stay current on trends that …

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Find a Pleading Precedent

I like baking.  You gather all the ingredients, put them together according to a recipe and then, if all goes well, you share a tasty treat.  Starting a legal action …

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Crowdsourcing Tribunal Decision Sources

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A question and some answers came across the CALL-L listserv this week about sources for BC Utilities Commission Decisions.  Like some other tribunals, the commission decisions are not available …

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Reflect Before You Act

Movie enthusiasts may recognize that the title of Today’s Tip is a quote from my personal Disney favourite: Mulan. I much prefer this modern interpretation of the Admonitions Scroll. …

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Commas

Often, I write with too many commas.  A comma is a beautiful thing, in fact, all punctuation is necessary for readers to understand a piece of text. Just ask the  …

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Do You Need to Read That Document on Paper?

First let me say that I really like reading on screen for business purposes.  Second, let me contradict that by complaining about my aged eyes and how I keep pulling …

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Calculating Dates

Some of the high use items linked from our firm’s intranet are calculators.  I am not talking about the e-quivalent of a device that helps find the square root of …

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Defining Research Value

A Slaw.ca post by Lynn Foley last week provided the inspiration for today’s tip.

Lynn asked Slawyers to consider what their clients perceive as value using the lens of the …

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