Sentences with phrase «firm library collection»

The seeming hypothesis that CanLII can replace a law firm library collection — including the texts and other resources necessary for lawyers to competently address legal issues for their clients — is simply absurd.

Your remarks about law firm library collection decisions compared with those in a law school library decisions, I believe, apt.

Not exact matches

In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837 — 1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847 — 1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This only stands to reason: our courthouse libraries are the oldest law libraries in the country; they were developing extensive collections of Canadian and English law long before any of today's law firms and law schools had been founded.

When the library proposed to digitize its slide collection, the university sought legal advice from two highly regarded law firms.

I wonder if you would have the same concerns for all libraries: should law firm libraries for example maintain large print collections just in case?

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?

Every week, I receive calls from law firm and courthouse librarians, asking if our library will take the historical collections they are being asked to dispose of.

When I was in a law firm library, we refused to buy casebooks for the collection.

The traditional law firm is a collection of sole practices and small firms that hang out together under the same letterhead and share a library and kitchen, delivering legal services through the ongoing application of lawyers» efforts.

Consequently, as a law school library, we have an obligation not only to the School but to law firm libraries and the profession to maintain our extensive print collections of primary legal materials and law journals.

Alison is Head of Knowledge for Eversheds Sutherland and her role includes managing the Knowledge Team (which is responsible for legal and business research, subscription resources and hardcopy library collections, supporting Insite, our internal Knowledge Management system and current awareness strategy), co-ordinating knowledge and training services for clients and developing and delivering the firm's global technical training programme.

Still, I remember a law firm library in Toronto that had a beautiful collection of extremely detailed maps of Ontario bound in large format.

My law firm library will never be empty since even if the collection were digitized and housed on some post-silicon ephemera there would still be a librarian (or several) in the room.

When I look at my own law firm library budget, the cost of collection items that are not available on CanLII is 88 % and the cost of decsions and legislation makes up only 11 % of my budget — though these are not necessarily availabe on CanLII.

Law Library Management, Incorporated (LLM) was engaged by an AM Law 25 firm to complete a library collection audit and analysis.

FTI Consulting clients can combine Predictive Discovery with additional offerings from the firm such as managed review, a secure corporate privilege library for predicting privilege, as well as ancillary services like international data collection to expert witness testimony.

Traditional library metrics are less helpful for law firm libraries compared to public or academic libraries; for example, circulation statistics are often used as an indicator of library usage and what parts of the library collection are in highest demand.

In large law firms that have one, lawyers and students still use the library; with a good collection and capable staff, word spreads.

As a law firm librarian, I rely on law society libraries, locally and in other jurisdictions, their services and collections, to supplement and augment what my team and I provide to our lawyers.

My law firm library has a lot of baskets: print collection, database access, items used for current awareness, Canadian content, foreign content, things that are available to borrow locally, things that we can share between our offices, things used by each practice group, things that people need at their desk.

Most law firms are collections of affiliated law practices that share physical premises, a brand, a knowledge library, and an internal referral system.

For example, one law firm was able to slash its law library budget in half over a two year period by offering its collection in e-book format and making it available through a digital library solution.

Law libraries were mostly indistinguishable in their collections; precedents varied so little as to be virtually copies of one another; workflow and operational procedures were standard across almost every type of firm.

Until we get there, there are ways to manage the size and cost of your print collection while seeking to meet firm goals of reducing library size.

Some of these options are easier to achieve than others: for the libraries internal to a law firm to agree to supplement each others» collections is quite straight forward, but reciprocal agreements across organizations are more difficult.

Pressed by both real estate and subscription costs, many law firms have disposed of their print collections, keeping only a bare minimum of hard - copy resources in a traditional onsite library space.

I'm using it to catalogue a small library collection for one of the law firms at which I work.

While the copies of early (pre-1930) law reports and statutes in both academic and private (law firm) libraries are disintegrating from age and overuse, mint - condition copies of them will be preserved in Osgoode's special collections.

For satellite libraries found in the same building as the main library, they tend to be specialized collections that support the work of a well - defined group; an example would be highly used real estate books being placed in a satellite library for the firm's real estate group.

As a law firm librarian, I rely on law society libraries, locally and in other jurisdictions, their services and collections, to supplement... [more]

We're lucky at our firm to have an extensive collection in our library at present, but fear that lawyers who use the library on a sporadic basis will think it's all available electronically now so why subscribe to many of the reports and looseleaf services we currently have.

Which collections shouuld be able to offer the deep dive question — law firm, courthouse or barristers library, a university law faculty question, a law library accessible to the public?

Should a law firm library be able to answer 80 percent of the deep dive questions within its collection or just 80 percent of the questions?

My law firm library has a lot of baskets: print collection, database access, items used for current awareness, Canadian content, foreign content, things that are available to borrow locally, things that we can share between our offices,... [more]

This policy was my project for the class, in which I attempted to create a collection of legal materials for a private law firm library in Wisconsin and was...