Sentences with phrase «lawyer goes to library»

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Lawyers at big firms had online research accounts and solos went to the law library to use the books.

Gone is the lawyer tied to the desk or the library.

The solution, my report argued, was to provide specially prepared sets of legal materials in public libraries and legal clinics and other places «so citizens can determine their rights and obligations without necessarily first going to lawyers.»

He even went so far as to claim that «Lawyers do not need law libraries to be competent» (shocking, I know).

to put up with the way Overdrive works for public library users, and that's going to be a minority of our lawyer clients, but it's my hope that it will get progressively easier to borrow ebooks online and you have to start somewhere.

In this digital information age, I don't think our «public» law libraries (law school and law society libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published law reporters and law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.

As I see it, Google's free legal research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the law library and manual research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.

And members of the public who want to look up what their lawyer or paralegal has to comply with have to pay $ 1500 or go to a public library in a large city, because their town doesn't have a copy.

It's hard to get young lawyers to move away from their desktops to the library, and for librarians to know how they are going about their research.

A law librarian resume objective is written by a person looking for a job as a law librarian where he or she can provide lawyers and low students with information related to previous cases and other important documents by going through the records kept in the library.