Are
law firm libraries going the way of the dinosaur (or the typewriter)?
Not exact matches
I run the
library of a Vancouver
law firm so my «go to» libraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's Law Libra
law firm so my «
go to»
libraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's Law
libraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse
Libraries and the University of British Columbia's Law
Libraries and the University of British Columbia's
Law Libra
Law Library.
Nevertheless, some questions, and I suspect many of those being answered by
law firms or for which people
go to a
library for help will remain resistant to these tools.
I've observed how some of the traditional trappings of the legal profession, like typewriters in
law practice, bike couriers and fancy
law firm libraries, are
going extinct.
Lawyers at big
firms had online research accounts and solos
went to the
law library to use the books.
I'm so used to having loose - leafs in a
law firm library that I hadn't considered that they might be considered a novelty elsewhere, but it started me wondering: are loose - leafs
going to become the legal
library equivalent of the coelacanth?
In this dream, I walk into my
law firm's
library and the shelves and books are
gone.
The days of budgeting by determining what was spent last year and adding a percentage of that amount to each line item are long
gone in the
law firm library world.
But instead, since I had five minutes before another meeting at my old
firm, I
went into their
library, since I knew there were some overview texts on American corporate
law, Williston on Contracts, and an annotated version of the Model Business Corporations Act.