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| Aric Press gives PLLIP Summit Keynote (c. O’Grady) |
The 2015 Private Law Librarians and Information
Professionals Summit was held on July
18th in conjunction with the annual AALL meeting in Philadelphia. This year’s
Summit kicked off with a keynote from Aric Press. Press is the former Editor-in-Chief of
American Lawyer and currently a law firm
Last call for ideas for the 2016 American Association of Law Libraries Conference. AALL Members have until Monday August 17th to participate.
A Simpler Crowdsourced Process
If you have ever submitted an idea in the past — it was a fairly complicated process requiring you the identify all aspects of the program including speakers in advance.
Today LexisNexis announced its agreement to acquire MLex, a provider of international legal analysis and commentary on regulatory risk. MLex which started in Europe has become a an important resource for antitrust lawyers in the US.
This morning Fastcase released their 5th list of entrepreneurs, innovators and trailblazers:
Katheen Martin – who is currently the Circuit Court Librarian, Montgomery County Maryland and
President of the Maryland Law Library Association. Kate is beloved by the private law librarian community because when she was a Library Director at Morgan Lewis and PLL Chair
The July Issue of Practice Innovations is out and just in time for the American Association of Law Libraries Conference, the issue is focused on legal information and knowledge professionals. Since law firms are knowledge intensive organizations, legal information professionals can play a critical role creating new workflows, driving productivity and innovation across law firm
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| Fastcase 7 Launch Screen |
The Private Law Librarians and Information Professionals
Special Interest Section of AALL has released two new Resource Guides on strategic planning and intranets. They also reissued a major revision of a previously published guide on internet research.The Guides are
free and available to law librarians and legal information professionals as
well as law firm administrators who