Since law librarians are highly educated and specialized, and many
law librarian positions require a law degree, law librarians tend to earn higher salaries than librarians in other industries.
Objective: Looking for
a law librarian position in a reputed legal firm to use my researching and acquisition skills of legal reference materials, including analyzing the legal resources.
Not exact matches
While there are budgetary priorities that need to be advocated for in Washington DC, there are many states that lack complementary definitions in state statute about school libraries and
librarians, as well as many states and Local Education Agencies (LEA) that have not been in the habit of funding programs or
positions because there was no compelling reason in the
law to do so.
With passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), school library programs and school
librarian positions are now part of federal education policy and
law.
My concern is a disturbing trend in many
positions, apparently including
law librarians, that don't require a
law degree, but will prefer one without any corresponding increase in the salary paid out for the
position.
I wonder how many, foreign
law librarians will now be in a
position to justify attendance at ALIP.
The new
Law Librarian of Congress, Jane Sanchez, started her new
position the second week in February.
I can think of only one time in the last few years when a non-Canadian trained
law librarian was recruited to fill a
position.
Over the past week, the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries has collaborated with other national and provincial associations to consider the qualities we believe are necessary for a successful candidate to the
position of
Librarian and Archivist of Canada.
The very next day I learned that John Palfrey had resigned his
position as
Law Librarian at the Harvard
Law School, indeed he had resigned his tenured faculty
position, in order to become the Head of Phillips Andover Academy.
With associate
positions hard to come by, new graduates — desperate to find a paying job in the legal profession — are applying for work as paralegals, legal secretaries and
law librarians, according to Long Island Business News.
BE IT RESOLVED that CALL / ACBD recommend to the National
Librarian, Heritage Canada and to Parliament, the establishment of the
position of National
Law Librarian with the appropriate authority and resources to work at the national level, and in cooperation with groups and organizations to:
In their letter of application, applicants should outline how attendance at the conference will benefit them in their current
position and / or in their career as a
law librarian.
She has had previous
positions as the
Law Librarian at Thompson Rivers University and Director of Library Operations at Courthouse Libraries BC.
Judges, lawyers,
law librarians,
law students, and others rely on Quicklaw every day to identify case
law to support legal
positions, to understand the
law in particular provinces or territories, to collect background information for factual discovery, and to keep abreast of emerging legal issues in particular areas of
law.
Senior
law librarians who have long term relationships with their firm lawyers are in an excellent
position to shepard the process — and as you mention — calling it KM or not, it's time to get in there!
I am sure that I speak for my colleagues when I say that it was liberating to be able to share with the legal research community our real thoughts, without the need to «
position» every sentence, and use the often meaningless «corporate speak» to respond to the issues clearly identified by
law librarians and legal researchers.
The recent issue of The Copyright & New Media
Law Newsletter is a special issue focussing on jobs and
positions for non-lawyers including
librarians, educators, communications coordinators and others.
Slaw readers know that Osgoode Hall
Law School is currently recruiting new
librarians (three
positions advertised, more later next year).
This article gives guidelines to create a resume for the
position of
law librarian.
Seeking the
position of a
law librarian to utilize my progressive four years of professional experience in a renowned legal setting.