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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Legal professionals"”.
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Legal professionals' perception of critical information in child custody disputes
… components of available information are used by legal professionals when making a child custody recommendation decision in Virginia.
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Parental alienation: an exploratory study of legal professionals’ views and experiences in Northern Ireland
… as unjustifiable where the estranged parent and professionals involved with the family can identify no plausible reason to explain the estrangement, such as neglect or abuse. It occurs, mainly, when parents are engaged in high conflict divorce or separation with the child appearing to align him …
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The efficacy of mental health services in the family court system: Legal professionals' perceptions
This study identified ways mental health professionals and specifically family therapists can benefit families entrenched in the family court system. This study explored how legal professionals use mental health professionals' expertise in the legal system and the appropriate roles of mental health …
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Designing an English-Romanian glossary of English Criminal Law for interpreters and legal professionals using electronic corpora
… the discontinuity between the UK and Romanian legal systems. The project’s objective is to examine specific lexical-contextual difficulties encountered in the professional practice and the availability of equivalent terminology in translation. Grounded on my professional practice and through …
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Machine learning in predictive analytics on judicial decision-making
Legal professionals globally are under pressure to provide ‘more for less' – not an easy challenge in the era of big data, increasingly complex regulatory and legislative frameworks and volatile financial markets. Although largely limited to information retrieval and extraction, Machine Learning …
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Ethnic Intimacy: Race, Law, and Citizenship in Korean America
… exploring how different Korean ethnics such as legal professionals, small business owners, and manual laborers navigate the diverse meanings of law, race, and citizenship in New York City. Particularly, I focus on the relationship between Korean legal professionals and their coethnic clients …
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The Law and Ethics of Using the Dead in Research
… to the well-being of the living, medical and legal professionals and ethicists have failed to carefully consider the issue of using the dead and their remains in research. This thesis will explore how the dead are treated (from a research perspective) and how the dead may be treated (from a …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… the dual role of Algerian lawyers, both as legal professionals and political activists, during the 2019 Hirak movement. It pays particular attention to their strategic use of social media. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach, the study combines qualitative semi-structured interviews and …
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Il notariato ad Iglesias tra Medioevo ed età moderna
… to carry out its basic functions in the field of legal transactions between independent and public administrations. The importance of the role of notary as acts producer with publica fidesfavored early the spread of these legal professionals in all Italian settlement contexts, including in …
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Examining the problem of power in divorce mediation: A naturalistic inquiry
… readiness’ of the couple, (2) the effects of the legal system, in particular, the relationships with lawyers, and, (3) physical intimidation and financial intimidation. Techniques employed by the mediators were similar across the interviews. These findings led to a redefinition of the problem of …
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Mastering tribunal forms: teaching students in law-related programs using public legal education and information
Law clerks and licensed paralegals in Ontario prepare standardized tribunal-issued forms, such as those for the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), on behalf of their clients. Training paralegal candidates and law clerk students to produce these complex forms is a core part of their education in …
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The Indian Map Trade in Colonial Oaxaca
… subsistence farming, and mining, they served as legal titles to property, and they participated in large-scale royal projects including aqueducts and assessments of human and natural resources. Map production is examined from four distinct vantage points including social networks, materials and …
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Victim-defense attorney interactions in court: the defense attorney perspective
… their interactions with various criminal justice professionals, few studies have explored the relationship between victims and defense attorneys. Understanding these interactions is critical to developing positive interactions between victims and defense attorneys, as well as promoting positive …
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Forensic collision investigation: finding the order within the chaos
… wider demographic, from members of the public to legal professionals by various means, such as authoring a brand-new chapter in the subject in a long-standing forensic textbook for the Royal Society of Chemistry, to producing webinar series for LexisNexis. Finally, the work as an Expert Witness, …
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Jurors' perceptions of child witnesses with disabilities
… emotional disability (NIH, 1999). Although legal professionals rely heavily on the victim to aid in the investigative and judicial process, studies have shown that jurors find children less credible witnesses than adults (Goodman & Bottoms, 1993). It has also been suggested that prosecutors …
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Logic, Learning, and Explanation: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Machine Reasoning
… and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in legal reasoning. The first part develops a novel Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game tailored to counting logic with a bounded number of variables, which characterizes formula size. This provides the first known formula size lower bound in counting logic and …
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Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics
… lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the 1950s. In particular, I expose critical junctures such as the unification of the legal system and the resulting …
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Knowledge-enhanced Document Representation Learning for Legal Judgment Support
… of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the legal domain, or LegalAI, has long been recognized as a potent tool for enhancing the efficiency of legal professionals. Despite this potential, prior research applied general AI models and neglected the knowledge in law. Such oversights have led to …
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