Friday, July 27, 2007

Legal Research, the ALS way

The website for well-known international law jurist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern greets readers with the following:

The Moment of Truth for a practicing lawyer occurs whenever a prospective client tells a story that seems morally compelling but legally hopeless. That is where the attorney's legal research should begin, not where it should end. Too much injustice persists in the world because tired legal thinking has accepted unjust patterns as legally inevitable.

http://anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/


Let's hope such research becomes "standard practice" among lawyers.


- Brian Foley




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