Sentences with phrase «with law firm library»

Since then we've been meeting with law firm library directors and staff across the country extolling the service's virtues — and there are many.

It is in direct response to a provocative tweet put out by Patrick DiDomenico saying «Tell me what's wrong with law firm libraries today.»

Lambert takes the bait, and gives some fine analysis, discussing both what is wrong and what is right with law firm libraries.

It seems to me that, in calling out what is wrong with law firm libraries, there needs to be some discussion of what can therefore be done to correct things.

I was most interested to read his thoughtful post «So, What is Wrong with Law Firm Libraries Today?»

Not exact matches

«One example is a public library with Xerox machines,» says David Duncan of Zalkind, Rodrigues, Lunt & Duncan, a Boston law firm.

You likely already know how valuable blogs are to your daily professional life if you litigate, need the latest on Blakely, or you're involved with a firm's law library.

vLex Canada, a professional grade suite of tools and services for lawyers, together with support for library, law society and firm - wide implementation.

CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with many major law firms in Québec that make their legal commentary freely available on the organization's website.

Here is a brief update: Colleague Katherine Thompson at my firm has compiled an internal list — with hypertext links — of all the Canadian e-books we have access to at our firm from LexisNexis Quicklaw, WestlaweCARSWELL, Carswell's e-reference library, CCH Online and Canada Law Book.

Lawyers worked in their offices, stored files in filing cabinets, conducted research in a book - filled law library, and met with clients in their offices or the firm's conference rooms.

In the April 20123 issue of Spectrum, the American Association of Law Libraries» monthly magazine, I read the article «Law Firm Changes Offer Opportunities for Libraries» by Sarah Sutherland with great interest.

For example, the use of online forms for auto - generating legal documents or for client intake, searchable and linkable law and file libraries, referral databases and other tools through the VLO may allow for the firm to avoid having to reinvent the wheel with each new online client.

In cooperation with Texas Bar CLE, TYLA created a library of short video presentations by some of the state's best - known experts on key points of law, firm - building, tactics and personal development.

Libraries, other cultural heritage institutions as well as law firms, governments and a variety of organizations are all faced with signing various license agreements... [more]

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

Libraries, other cultural heritage institutions as well as law firms, governments and a variety of organizations are all faced with signing various license agreements for the use of digital content.

Nine law firm law libraries subscribe to at least the law journal module on Hein with nine law firm law libraries not subscribing.

There has been an interesting trend in law firms recently of gradually reducing staff in libraries, but adding information specialist positions with various job titles to business development groups.

With the rise of electronic subscriptions, if a library or law firm cancels a subscription it loses access to the entire product.

I think that because I'm speaking with lawyers, and at the library, training them on different substantive areas of law, but also helping them through their sort of practice management issues too, having that experience of running a firm and knowing what it's like for them is obviously necessary.

CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with 6 major law firms in Québec that will make their legal commentary freely available on the CAIJ website.

I have found many useful resources as I've embarked on learning law from scratch: court resources, Duhaime's online law dictionary, CanLII, law firms» newsletters, the academic literature, law libraries, and the time I've been able to afford with lawyers who kindly provide «coaching.»

This is the second agreement reached with companies in the law book industry which use automatic shipments to distribute publications to libraries, government agencies and law firms in Florida.

The session started with an overview survey, mainly answered by law librarians, to identify themes of how law libraries in firms supported BI and CI.

A roundtable discussion that was blogged about, a session that included Bess Reynolds (author of The Challenges of E-books in Law Firm Libraries), and many chats with vendors and colleagues.

In addition, law firm applications are increasingly moving towards the cloud with legal libraries and case management tools being, perhaps, the more well - known examples.

I am not currently able to make it as easy as that for my law firm library users who wish to review legal texts with mobile devices.

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As the Birmingham Business Journal describes, with the proliferation of electronic research, law firms are downsizing their libraries — but they're not eliminating them entirely.

Two broad themes emerged (albeit slightly unrelated): (i) their concern over the job market for future law librarians / knowledge managers, and (ii) my continued proselytizing for an integrated approach to information in law firms by merging library functions with KM and continued «convergence» with library and KM and other administrative functions in law firms, including training, marketing and... [more]

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

The third chapter covers the law firm library itself, including the practical aspects of the firm librarian's interaction with his or her professional environments.

The combination of cost and labour is unsustainable for libraries, with the result that all libraries, both private (law firm) and public (law schools and courthouses) are cancelling them en masse.

With law firm revenues and growth flat, the library budget will be cut.

Birmingham and Westminster are teaming up with videoconferencing firm Instant Law UK to offer free legal advice via webcam in public libraries:

This should be a valuable addition to academic and court law libraries, as well as to firms with a significant litigation practice.»

Texas Bar, for innovative use of video and extensive online how - to library, Minnesota Bar for experimenting in blogs and social media (even if off the main site), Mississippi for a terrific solo tool kit, Association of the Bar of New York for extensive resources (including a thorough business plan) on starting a law firm, Colorado bar for unique programs like a conciliation panel that helps contentious opposing counsel get along, the DC Bar (for the very limited reason that it has been offering free, monthly programs on starting a practice and NOT for its Avvo insantity) and the ABA for solosez and its attempt at social media with Legally Minded.

Although the traditional library is disappearing from law firms and corporate law departments, the librarian has not vanished with it.

With a traditional print book in a law firm library, a user either reads it in the library or signs it out to use in his or her office.

They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at OslLaw Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osllaw firm library at Osler.

Together with Dan Pinnington of Practice Pro fame and Catherine Sanders ReachWho co-wrote the great study on the feasibility of the digital library for private law firms..

Our Library Director invited 4 library directors of major law firms in the DC area over to have lunch with us (one law firm librarian at a time).

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As might be expected, law firm and private company law libraries were the most likely to be concerned with mergers and acquisitions as a primary research theme.

For the most recent position that we filled at my firm, although we were looking for someone with some law library experience, we ended up hiring someone straight out of library school because she had the soft skills we were looking for.

In the Canadian law library context, all major private law firms with national practices, save one, use modified KFThe best article on KF and the development of Canadian law library cataloguing comes from UBC.

Increasingly, we are seeing law firm librarians and library staff becoming more involved in KM at their firms (e.g., helping the firm organize and maintain the firm's research memo and work product databases or helping design and maintain the firm's intranet, to name but two examples) but we don't necessarily see the opposite: it remains unusual for KM lawyers and KM staff to be involved with or integrated into library or research services.

And may I add: electronic discovery, especially if law library is organizationally married with records / information management within a firm.

I read today's post by Sarah Sutherland in the On Firmer Ground blog, «The developing skill - employment disconnect in law libraries and what to do with it» with interest.