Sentences with phrase «research as a law librarian»

If you have not yet embraced mobile yourself for your research as a law librarian then yes, be worried, very worried — for your job that is!

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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.

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the schoLaw Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the scholaw school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

But as more and more online services are available to lawyers, especially individually - subscribed and practice - focussed services such as Lexis's Practice Advisor and Westlaw's «Source» products, courthouse libraries could provide a local venue for research - oriented seminars provided by either or both the librarian and the law publishers themselves.

As online legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such training and have access to the reference services of a trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive legal services to their clients.

Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered, where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal profession; Legal Profession Blog, which is unparalleled in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs, where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog, where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific, where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one - woman legal news bureau since 2002.

Throughout my thirty years as a professional law librarian, I have been immersed in the impacts of technological change on legal research.

But O'Grady also takes close looks at new legal research platforms, interviews legal publishing leaders, and explores the evolving role of law librarians as the profession absorbs new technology and law firms rethink how they serve clients.

Yes, the legal research and writing faculty (who are often librarians) at your school has been using the law school library as a practice laboratory to give students the real world skills they need.

While the typical physical law library is indeed becoming smaller, it brings to the law firm value beyond simply being a repository of tangible research material; as the librarian, that's reward enough for me.

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.

«The attorneys surveyed placed advanced legal research skills alongside drafting pleadings and motions as the skills both «most needed» and «most lacking» in litigation practice,» according to Nota Bene, a blog by the librarians at the University of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.

As a legal research educator and a librarian who has worked with law students and attorneys as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need iAs a legal research educator and a librarian who has worked with law students and attorneys as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need ias well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need ias judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need it.

In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing, as well as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.

From discussions with colleagues in other provinces, that appears to represent most practices, although the extent of the librarians» research varies as many also have law degrees.

Because of this, it is unsurprising if librarians tend to focus on the process of finding materials going through different types of commentary and primary law sequentially as defining proper research.

David E. Selden, the law librarian of the NILL, has written «Researching American Indian Tribal Law» which is a comprehensive, current guide to using these resources In the introduction to the guide he states that: «The ability to research tribal law is becoming increasingly important as 566 sovereign Indian nations and Alaska Native villages exercise their powers of self - governanlaw librarian of the NILL, has written «Researching American Indian Tribal Law» which is a comprehensive, current guide to using these resources In the introduction to the guide he states that: «The ability to research tribal law is becoming increasingly important as 566 sovereign Indian nations and Alaska Native villages exercise their powers of self - governanLaw» which is a comprehensive, current guide to using these resources In the introduction to the guide he states that: «The ability to research tribal law is becoming increasingly important as 566 sovereign Indian nations and Alaska Native villages exercise their powers of self - governanlaw is becoming increasingly important as 566 sovereign Indian nations and Alaska Native villages exercise their powers of self - governance.

There must be more to academic law librarianship than teaching legal research; if not, I've spent 35 years wasting my time as a law librarian.

Librarians in law schools obviously carry out legal research and offer legal research instruction, but what about also business schools, or other university departments such as social or political science?

As has worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.

And, finally, depending on the answers here, is there more that specialized legal researchers (such as research lawyers and law librarians) can or should do?

Now, as a public services librarian in an academic law library, I do little targeted legal research.

Looking at it as a law librarian and from a purely practical standpoint this would significantly impede case law research.