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Editor’s Picks: Negotiation revisited | Save $$ on legal research | Marijuana election clean sweep

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Practice tips: How negotiation steers healthy relationships & how to save $$ on legal research. At a time when lawyers and everyone else is paying attention to the bottom line, authors experts Carole Levitt and Judy Davis share when it’s best to use free legal research databases over expensive paid options.

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Staff News: Chloe Field and Jacob Elkin Join the Sabin Center as Legal Fellows

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His work focuses on supporting utility- and community-scale renewable energy, along with associated transmission and storage, through legal research and engagement. He then clerked on the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2021, where he was awarded the Alfred S.

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Matthew Eisenson Joins the Sabin Center as Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative Fellow

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We are thrilled to welcome Matthew Eisenson to the Sabin Center, where his work will focus on leading and expanding the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment.

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Fastcase Names Its 11th Annual Class of Fastcase 50 Innovation Honorees

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This year’s group of honorees is composed of a diverse array of lawyers, legal technologists, law librarians, judges, legal researchers, innovators, and people who are committed to reforming and automating the law. Barry Simpson , Executive Director, Pennsylvania Bar Association. Devin Stone , Attorney, StoneLaw DC.

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

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The Michigan Courts have their self-represented litigants page at: [link] It also provides links to the Michigan Legal Help website at: [link] And interestingly, the court has created a "Learning Center" as a resource for educators around the state. Interactive Forms and online legal research are also available.

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The Right (And Wrong) Way to Use AI as a Lawyer

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The chatbot tool was able to pass four exams at the law school of the University of Minnesota and one exam at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. It can reduce the time and effort that goes into legal research and writing, which can also reduce the cost of the legal services provided to clients.

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Writs of Mandamus, Data Accessibility, and the Federal Circuit

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It’ll also ensure that legal research databases contain these orders going forward. The draft of that paper, entitled Legal Research as a Collective Enterprise: An Examination of Data Availability in Empirical Legal Scholarship , is now available.