Not exact matches
San Mateo County
Libraries offer free
legal clinics each month in collaboration with the San Mateo County Bar
Association.
You can also cut corners on your
legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law lib
legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar
Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law lib
Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar
associations), and Jenkins Law
Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law
library.
He also links to his own more detailed article in Spectrum, the American
Association of Law
Libraries» topical monthly, where he looks at some of the current realities in the relationship between law libraries and legal pu
Libraries» topical monthly, where he looks at some of the current realities in the relationship between law
libraries and legal pu
libraries and
legal publishers.
The 2014 course on International Law and
Legal Information from the International
Association of Law
Libraries is taking place right now in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Our
associations are not restricted to
library management and collection and budgeting issues; we also discuss and teach and inform each other on the law,
legal systems,
legal research and sometimes even
legal gossip.
CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law
libraries associated with the Québec Bar
Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with many major law firms in Québec that make their
legal commentary freely available on the organization's website.
Thanks to Susan Martin of Thomson Reuters»
Legal Current blog for interviewing me during the American
Association of Law
Libraries annual meeting recently in Philadelphia.
Way back when I was in
library school, there was a
legal skirmish between California's Nolo Press and the Texas Bar
Association.
The American
Association of Law
Libraries has done some very extensive work in trying to identify which state electronic
legal materials have any official status.
It is a collaborative effort of the
Legal Division of the Special
Libraries Association, the Private Law
Libraries Special Interest Section of the American
Association of Law
Libraries, the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries / L»
Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit and the British and Irish
Association of Law Librarians.
The Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries (CALL) is accepting nominations for the 2014 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing.
As for a sense of how customers feel about the corporate brands of multinational
legal publishers, one need only attend the annual meetings of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries to get a sense of the disconnect that exists in the market between the providers and consumers of
legal information on issues relating to updating and pricing in particular.
At the awards luncheon at the recent CALL conference (Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries) in Windsor, ON, the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing was presented to the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society Library & Information Services for their Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules service.
She includes on the list only professional blogs targeted toward the
legal community — blogs affiliated with a law
library, blogs written by individual law librarians and blogs of law librarian
associations.
I had the pleasure last week of presenting at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries / / L'
Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit on the topic «
Legal Project Management: Is There a Role for Law Librarians?»
The American
Association of Law
Libraries (AALL) and the International
Legal Technology
Association (ILTA) which many law firms belong to jointly produced a white paper in October 2012 entitled The New Librarian.
Another recent example relates to disappearing Ontario government press releases and backgrounder papers, rightly identified by the then President of the Toronto
Association of Law
Libraries in December 2003 as alarming due to its negative impact on
legal research and the public's right to access government information.
In his presentation at the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries Conference subtitled Triangulating
Legal Literature, Paul McKenna offered that the idea of three is prevalent... Something that resonated with me as a process improvement professional.
Via ABA Site - tation, the monthly e-newsletter of the American Bar
Association Legal Technology Resource Center, comes a pointer to the Web site of The Muncipal Code Corporation, an online
library of municipal codes from throughout the United States.
Earlier this week at its annual conference in Moncton, the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries announced that the Osgoode Society for Canadian
Legal History book series was the winner of the 2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing.
Now I have another to add to my list of recommended
legal tech conferences: the annual conference of the American
Association of Law
Libraries.
In recognition of his contributions to Canadian
legal publishing, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries awards the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing each
legal publishing, the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries awards the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing each
Legal Publishing each year.
Annette L. Demers, President - Elect of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries, wrote last week to the Canadian government outlining her fears that federal budget cuts could affect long - term access to Canadian
legal information:
Library Boy Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries Webinar on Relations With
Legal Publishers
«The proposal to change the name of American
Association of Law
Libraries to the
Association for
Legal Information has failed by a vote of 1998 (80.11 percent) opposed, to 496 (19.89 percent) in favor.
There is a stimulus to digitalize and preserve the print record of Canadian
legal history through the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries.
At the annual meeting of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries last May in Moncton, one of the keynote sessions was on The Future of
Legal Publishing.
The Changing Role of Women in the Law Library Community by Monica Bay (On Firmer Ground, August 5, 2013) Editor - in - Chief of Law Technology News Monica Bay muses on the recent American
Association of Law
Libraries conference and the role of women in the
legal community.
CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law
libraries associated with the Québec Bar
Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with 6 major law firms in Québec that will make their
legal commentary freely available on the CAIJ website.
Several Slaw contributors have written recently about the use of artificial intelligence in law (Tim Knight here, Nate Russell here) with particular reference to the program on «Computers in
Legal Research» at the conference of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries held in Vancouver this past May, moderated by Slaw's Steve Matthews.
The benefit that I gained, while participating with Jason Wilson and Gary Rodrigues in a session on the future of
legal publishing at the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries annual conference, was in learning more about the broad range of issues that both concerned and excited law librarians in their relationships with the major law publishers.
At this week's annual conference of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries in Ottawa, the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing was awarded to Maritime Law Book.
Every year, the American
Association of Law
Libraries hands out awards to recognize the achievements of law librarians for their service to the profession and contributions to
legal literature.
Every year, the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries (CALL) hands out the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing.
At the most recent meeting of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries in Moncton, it was clear that the present, past and future of looseleaf services continue to be a source of angst and concern in the
legal research community.
In a post here in July, I provided a preview of RegReview, a new component of its Transactional Law Suite for Securities that Wolters Kluwer
Legal & Regulatory U.S. planned to showcase at the annual convention of the American
Association of Law
Libraries.
The home page of M&A Clause Analytics At the annual convention next week of the American
Association of Law
Libraries, Wolters Kluwer
Legal & Regulatory will unveil two new features of its Transactional Law Suite for Securities.
Last September, Melanie Bueckert,
Legal Research Counsel at the Manitoba Court of Appeal, (and occasional Slaw contributor), saw a reference to the Head - Start Program offered by the Edmonton Law
Libraries Association (ELLA).
A
legal research tool that uses artificial intelligence to help
legal researchers quickly find key language critical to a court's reasoning has been selected by the American
Association of Law
Libraries as winner of its 2018 New Product Award.
Alan Kilpatrick, a law librarian with the Law Society of Saskatchewan (LSS), wrote earlier this month on the
Legal Sourcery blog about a new Primer to Legislative Research Across the Provinces and Territories published by the Vancouver
Association of Law
Libraries (the linked version is a reprint by the LSS).
For a fresh take on the subject, by someone comparatively new to the role, I would suggest reading the chapter «Working for
Legal Publishing Companies» by Danann Hawes in the book
Legal Information Specialists: A Guide to Launching and Building Your Career, edited by Annette Demers and published by LexisNexis in
association with the Canadian Association of Law
association with the Canadian
Association of Law
Association of Law
Libraries.
My groups have titles like Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries, Knowledge Management for
Legal Professionals, Law Firm Research Managers, Law Firm Knowledge Management (a subgroup of
Legal IT Netowrk), and so on.
The Society received the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in
Legal Publishing at the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries annual conference held in May 2010 for the Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules.
The Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries (CALL) is organizing a live «tweet chat» on Thursday, September 25 with Fred Headon, Past - President of the Canadian Bar
Association and Chair of the CBA
Legal Futures Initiative.
She currently serves as Chair of the American
Association of Law
Libraries Government Relations Committee and the American
Association of Law
Libraries Task Force on Identifying Skills and Knowledge for
Legal Practice.
Mr. Spence says he does all of his
legal research for free by visiting the
library at the New York City Bar
Association and taking advantage of their subscriptions to WestLaw and LexisNexis.
Similarly, readers may be interested in taking a look at presentations and materials for some of the
Legal Division sessions for the forthcoming Special
Libraries Association Annual Meeting 2007, available here.
In the event that online access is near, one would hope that the Trustees of the McGill Law Journal and / or the
legal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libra
legal publisher would take the same approach that Carswell did when it developed the Index to Canadian
Legal Literature in association with the Canadian Association of Law Libra
Legal Literature in
association with the Canadian Association of Law
association with the Canadian
Association of Law
Association of Law
Libraries.
Additionally PLEA enjoys the support of the Law Society of Saskatchewan, Canadian Bar
Association (Saskatchewan Branch), College of Law, Saskatchewan
Legal Aid Commission, Saskatoon Public Library and public
libraries and regional colleges throughout the province.
In our upcoming talk on Sunday at the American
Association of Law
Libraries conference, I will be recommending that
legal information professionals read from knowledge management thought leaders, whether inside the law industry or from other industries.