The Question Method of Legal Research Interactive Legal Research Modules

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The estimator counts a table of authorities but treats the number as a signal of scale rather than a driver of hours, and reports roughly three sources opened for every one cited. Why not just count the citations?

Under the Gutierrez standard, when is a lawyer’s inquiry into the law not reasonable?

Putting Jewelpak and Golden Eagle together: what exactly does the adverse-authority duty require?

Set the authority slider to absent and the estimate roughly doubles. What is the extra time actually being spent on?

You spend six hours on a matter: two getting up to speed in an area of law you have never practised in, four researching the client’s actual question. A court reviewing a fee petition would most likely do what with those two hours?