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A Legal Research Task is a legal analysis task that is a domain-specific research task that identifies and retrieves law-related information necessary to support legal decision-making.
- AKA: Law Research Task, Legal Investigation Task, Legal Information Research Task.
- Context:
- Task Input: Legal Research Questions, Legal Research Objectives, Legal Research Situation Facts, Legal Research Information (e.g. legal research terminology, legal research statutes)
- Task Output: Legal Research Findings, Legal Research Summary Documents, Annotated Legal Research Documents, Legal Research Analysis Reports, Legal Research Citation Lists
- Task Performance Measure: Legal Research Completeness, Legal Research Accuracy, Legal Research Timeliness, Legal Research Cost-Effectiveness
- It can typically utilize Legal Research Databases containing legal research case law, legal research statutes, and legal research secondary sources.
- It can typically access Legal Research Contract Databases such as Law Insider Contract Database for legal research precedent documents.
- It can typically search Legal Research Specialized Collections including legal research regulatory databases and legal research treaty repositorys.
- It can typically involve Legal Research Systematic Investigation of legal research authoritys to find legal research precedents.
- It can typically require Legal Research Critical Analysis of legal research sources for legal research relevance.
- It can typically verify Legal Research Citations to avoid false legal citations.
- It can typically produce Legal Research Memorandums synthesizing legal research findings.
- It can typically create Annotated Legal Research Documents with legal research commentary.
- It can typically support Legal Research Decision Processes through legal research evidence gathering.
- It can typically follow Legal Research Workflows including:
- Specialized Application Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Contract-Related Question Answering Tasks addressing legal research contract querys.
- Legal-Domain Issue-Recognition Tasks identifying legal research problem areas.
- Contract Clause Writing Tasks supported by legal research precedent analysis.
- Legal Domain-Focused Questions requiring legal research targeted investigation.
- Technology Innovation Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Legal Tech-Related Innovation Moment research analyzing legal research technology trends.
- Legal-Domain AI Technology assessment examining legal research automation capability.
- 3rd-Party LegalTech AI Platform evaluation studying legal research tool effectiveness.
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- It can often be performed by Legal Research Professionals including:
- It can often be outsourced to Legal Research Service Providers such as:
- It can often utilize Legal Research Software Systems for legal research efficiency.
- It can often be enhanced by Legal Research AI Technology including:
- Legal-Domain AI Agent-based Systems providing legal research intelligent automation.
- Contract-Focused AI Agents specializing in legal research contract analysis.
- Legal-Domain Chatbots offering legal research conversational interfaces.
- Legal NLP Frameworks enabling legal research text processing.
- Integrated Professional-Oriented Multi-Turn Legal Domain-Specific LLM-based Conversational Systems supporting legal research complex dialogues.
- Domain-Specific LLM-based Conversational Systems facilitating legal research natural interactions.
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)-based Systems enhancing legal research answer accuracy.
- It can often involve Legal Research Multi-Step Processes from legal research issue identification to legal research conclusion.
- It can often require Legal Research Update Verification to ensure legal research currency.
- It can often involve Legal Research Issue-Spotting using:
- It can often demand Legal Analytical Reasoning Ability for legal research logical analysis.
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- It can range from being a Simple Legal Research Task to being a Complex Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research complexity.
- It can range from being a Single-Issue Legal Research Task to being a Multi-Issue Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research scope.
- It can range from being a Jurisdiction-Specific Legal Research Task to being a Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research geographic coverage.
- It can range from being a Manual Legal Research Task to being a Computer-Assisted Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research technology utilization.
- It can range from being a Academic Legal Research Task to being a Practical Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research application purpose.
- It can range from being a Historical Legal Research Task to being a Current Legal Research Task, depending on its legal research temporal focus.
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- It can integrate with Legal Research Management Systems for legal research workflow optimization.
- It can utilize Legal Research Citation Systems for legal research authority verification.
- It can employ Legal Research Analytics Tools for legal research pattern identification.
- It can be supported by Legal Research Service Providers including:
- Legal Research Software Systems such as ROSS Intelligence and Cognitiv+.
- Legal Research Platforms such as Thomson Reuters CoCounsel and Intelligize Platform.
- Legal Research Database Services such as Law Insider Contract Search Service.
- Legal Research Knowledge Management Systems for legal research information organization.
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- Example(s):
- Primary Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Case Law Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Appellate Case Legal Research Task for finding legal research appellate precedents.
- Trial Court Legal Research Task for locating legal research trial decisions.
- Federal Case Legal Research Task for searching legal research federal court opinions.
- State Case Legal Research Task for identifying legal research state court rulings.
- Statutory Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Federal Statutory Legal Research Task for analyzing legal research federal legislation.
- State Statutory Legal Research Task for examining legal research state laws.
- Local Ordinance Legal Research Task for researching legal research municipal codes.
- Regulatory Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Case Law Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Secondary Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Legal Commentary Research Tasks, such as:
- Law Review Legal Research Task for finding legal research scholarly articles.
- Legal Treatise Research Task for consulting legal research authoritative texts.
- Legal Encyclopedia Research Task for accessing legal research comprehensive overviews.
- Practice Guide Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Legal Commentary Research Tasks, such as:
- Specialized Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Contract Law Legal Research Tasks for investigating legal research contract issues, such as:
- Contract Formation Legal Research Task examining legal research agreement validity.
- Contract Interpretation Legal Research Task analyzing legal research clause meaning.
- Contract Enforcement Legal Research Task researching legal research breach remedy.
- Contract Clause Legal Research Task using Contract Clause Search Service.
- Intellectual Property Legal Research Task for examining legal research IP matters.
- Environmental Law Legal Research Task for researching legal research environmental regulations.
- Criminal Law Legal Research Task for investigating legal research criminal statutes.
- Tax Law Legal Research Task for analyzing legal research tax codes.
- Contract Law Legal Research Tasks for investigating legal research contract issues, such as:
- Comparative Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Technology-Assisted Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Related Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Legal Assistance Tasks supporting legal research client services.
- Legal Writing Tasks utilizing legal research findings.
- Legal Document Drafting Tasks based on legal research outcomes.
- Law-Related Query-Replying Tasks requiring legal research knowledge bases.
- Legal Text Analysis Tasks for legal research document processing.
- Legal-Domain Analysis Tasks incorporating legal research methodology.
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- Primary Legal Research Tasks, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- Market Research Task, which gathers market data rather than legal research information.
- Scientific Research Task, which investigates natural phenomena rather than legal research authority.
- Historical Research Task, which studies past events without legal research application.
- Medical Research Task, which examines health conditions rather than legal research issues.
- Document Search Task, which retrieves general documents without legal research analysis.
- Business Intelligence Task, which analyzes business metrics rather than legal research precedents.
- See: Computer-Assisted Legal Research Task, Legal Analysis Task, Legal Information Retrieval Task, Legal Writing Task, Legal Practice Task, Free Access to Law Movement, Legal Database, Legal Citation System, Legal Professional, Legal Technology, Legal Research Software System, Legal-Domain Task, Legal Knowledge Management System, Legal-Domain AI Technology, Alternative Legal Service Provider, Legal Process Outsourcer, Legal NLP Framework, Contract-Related Processing Task.
References
2024
- (Magesh et al., 2024) ⇒ Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl, Mirac Suzgun, Christopher D. Manning, and Daniel E Ho. (2024). “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools.” In: Stanford preprint.
- NOTES:
- The study evaluates AI-driven legal research tools: LexisNexis's Lexis+ AI, Thomson Reuters's Ask Practical Law AI, Westlaw's AI-Assisted Research (AI-AR), and GPT-4, focusing on their tendency to produce false information or "hallucinations."
- The study utilized a diverse set of 202 preregistered legal queries categorized into general legal research, jurisdiction/time-specific questions, false premise questions, and factual recall questions.
2023a
- (GM-RKB ChatGPT, 2023) ⇒ Summarize the concept Legal Research Task in 1- 2 paragraphs, promt.GM-RKB ChatGPT (model: gpt-4-1106-preview) Retrieved: 2023-12-10
- QUOTE: A legal research task involves the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. At its core, it includes the systematic investigation of legal authorities such as statutes, case law, regulations, treaties, and legal scholarship to find answers to legal questions or to check for legal precedents that can be used in formulating a legal argument or making a judicial ruling. The purpose of legal research is to find sources of law that will aid in finding a solution to a legal problem.
Legal research is typically performed by lawyers, law clerds, paralegals, or law students. The process may involve several steps, including identifying the legal issues involved, choosing relevant legal databases or physical materials, selecting and applying appropriate research strategies, reviewing and analyzing the found materials for relevance and authority, and updating the research with the most current sources to ensure the law has not changed. The end product of a legal research task is often a written legal memorandum, brief, or argument that synthesizes and presents the research in a way that is accessible and persuasive to a court, client, or other legal audience.
- QUOTE: A legal research task involves the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. At its core, it includes the systematic investigation of legal authorities such as statutes, case law, regulations, treaties, and legal scholarship to find answers to legal questions or to check for legal precedents that can be used in formulating a legal argument or making a judicial ruling. The purpose of legal research is to find sources of law that will aid in finding a solution to a legal problem.
2023b
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/legal_research Retrieved:2023-6-6.
- Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation." The processes of legal research vary according to the country and the legal system involved. Legal research involves tasks such as:
- Finding primary sources of law, or primary authority, in a given jurisdiction (cases, statutes, regulations, etc.).
- Searching secondary authority, for background information about a legal topics. Secondary authorities can come in many forms (for example, law reviews, legal dictionaries, legal treatises, and legal encyclopedias such as American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum).
- Searching non-legal sources for investigative or supporting information.
- Legal research is performed by anyone with a need for legal information, including lawyers, law librarians, and paralegals. Sources of legal information range from printed books, to free legal research websites (like Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, Findlaw.com, Martindale Hubbell or CanLII) and information portals to fee database vendors such as Wolters Kluwer, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Lex Intell, VLex and Bloomberg Law. Law libraries around the world provide research services to help their patrons find the legal information they need in law schools, law firms and other research environments. Many law libraries and institutions provide free access to legal information on the web, either individually or via collective action, such as with the Free Access to Law Movement.
- Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation." The processes of legal research vary according to the country and the legal system involved. Legal research involves tasks such as: