Legal research in the US firms, from what I can gather, is
done by law librarians, attorneys in the litigation groups, and by consultants such as Susan; ie.
Not exact matches
☐ Is overseen
by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights
laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one
librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐
Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level
I don't intend to discuss these cases in this column, here I will write about the development of the deep research skills needed
by professional researchers such as lawyers and
law librarians to provide the enhanced expertise needed to be paid professionally for this work.
Via a link on the New York Supreme Court, Criminal Term's
Law Library Blog, I came across a very well done parable authored by Jonathan Stock, who retired last year as supervising law librarian for the Connecticut Judicial Branch in Stamfo
Law Library Blog, I came across a very well
done parable authored
by Jonathan Stock, who retired last year as supervising
law librarian for the Connecticut Judicial Branch in Stamfo
law librarian for the Connecticut Judicial Branch in Stamford.
What continues to amaze me is the chasm of no - comment, non-discussion and non-publishing
by law librarians on e-discovery vs. some lead enterprise - wide document / content management managers (who are also
librarians) in other industry sectors, who are engaged in the e-discovery process, yet
do publish occasionally on e-discovery.
First, if you don't have a copy of the latest edition of «The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet,» written
by Carole Levitt, a lawyer and
law librarian, and Mark E. Rosch, long time legal technology author and speaker, I highly recommend you pick one up.
Good piece in
law.com on The Many Hats of a Law Librarian by Tricia Kasting, who I only knew because of her federal statutory research pathfinder, and her piece on how the Millennial generation of law students does legal research differently... [mo
law.com on The Many Hats of a
Law Librarian by Tricia Kasting, who I only knew because of her federal statutory research pathfinder, and her piece on how the Millennial generation of law students does legal research differently... [mo
Law Librarian by Tricia Kasting, who I only knew because of her federal statutory research pathfinder, and her piece on how the Millennial generation of
law students does legal research differently... [mo
law students
does legal research differently... [more]
# 3: Checklists:
Law librarians are natural keepers and organizers of checklists, an important tool in large deals or lawsuits to tracking the steps that need to be taken (when discussing checklists, I like to mention the great work
done by the
Law Society of British Columbia in making a number of practice checklists available online).
In our firm, the reference
librarians will find
law if given the parameters such as the name of the legislation or treaty, style of cause of the case, or noting up of caselaw, but the rest is
done by lawyers (and articling students).
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.
If you're not an expert researcher or if you don't have access to a large
law library with professional foreign and international
law librarians, the key to productive legal research is the «Legal Research Guide,» most of which are created
by those professional and expert
law librarians, many of whom also have US and foreign
law degrees.
Connie wins for her «leverage of
law librarians» — both for the triple alliteration and the truth that none of us, practitioners or academics, would be able to work as we
do without the leverage provided
by the
law librarians.
The session included a presentation
by Bonnie ShuchaBonnie Shucha, Reference & Electronic Services
Librarian at the University of Wisconsin
Law Library.,
doing a solo session that ALA pegged as one of the highlights of the day.
8)
Law Librarian Blog Award — 2008 is the year we expand our radar in this category, and note the great blogging being
done by the Edmonton Association of
Law Libraries.
Do you think the specialist work of
law librarians / information professionals and other members of the legal profession can be replicated
by machines?
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?
As suggested in this article, a
law degree is
by no means necessary for
law librarians except for senior academic (and perhaps courthouse) appointments but that a
law degree
does provide useful context and a competitive advantage in some circumstances.
I had earlier
done a study with Angela Gibson, funded
by the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries (CALL) and completed in 2005, entitled «Report — A Study of the Education of
Law Librarians in Canada» that comments on some of the challenges.