Sentences with phrase «law firm libraries do»

Law firm libraries do not just carry out legal research, but can be heavily involved in industry and client research.

Not exact matches

It seems to me that, in calling out what is wrong with law firm libraries, there needs to be some discussion of what can therefore be done to correct things.

On the other side of that, I currently work in a law firm library, and we just don't have the space or budget to include «just in case» materials.

Given that law libraries, whether academic, courthouse or private law firm, are constantly under space pressures, does this mean that we should be discarding the other 80 - 94 % of the collection and using the space for something else?

What does all of this mean for my law firm library budget?

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

So how does this relate to the law firm library of the future?

I have been interested to learn a bit lately about why law firms evolved as they did, noting the degree to which joint ownership of libraries, including case law and subscriptions, may have been a factor.

The challenge a number of law firm library managers face when drawing up strategy is when the firms themselves (the partnership or the staff management company) do not have overall strategies including things like a stated vision or objectives.

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In the late 1980's and early 90's, the local union list of titles held by local law firm libraries was a lifeline to librarians, and ILL didn't just help us share resources and keep costs down.

For example, how does a library contribute to the law firm's revenues?

How does the library improve the quality of the service provided to the law firm's clients?

However discovery tools do not appear to be a practical solution for law firm libraries.

Looking at this message to both lawyers and librarians, is there work that is being done by lawyers in the law firms that library can help to automate or otherwise achieve?

Despite the fact that many large firms have libraries (and this is indeed a small number of firms), and despite the efforts of the law librarians,, most lawyers do not appear to put much stock in legal research.

Close to half of the libraries in the sample have decreased the size of the library within the past five years, and more than half of the law firm libraries have done so.

Increasingly, we are seeing law firm librarians and library staff becoming more involved in KM at their firms (e.g., helping the firm organize and maintain the firm's research memo and work product databases or helping design and maintain the firm's intranet, to name but two examples) but we don't necessarily see the opposite: it remains unusual for KM lawyers and KM staff to be involved with or integrated into library or research services.

I read today's post by Sarah Sutherland in the On Firmer Ground blog, «The developing skill - employment disconnect in law libraries and what to do with it» with interest.

«While two - to - an - office has been in place at some firms for some time, in - boarding, which is already done at many other professional firms, can make a law firm even more efficient as the need for storage rooms and libraries disappears.»

Ours were recycled from a Savannah law firm doing away with its law library.