Susan Hackett, The CEO of Legal Executive Leadership
kicked off the  2014 Private Law Libraries Summit with a bang. This year’s theme was  “The Voice of the Client” and  Hackett delivered a powerful message which
focused on “Re-engineering the Role and Value of  Private Law Librarian:  Practical Strategies for Leadership in Serving
Corporate Clients.”

The July Issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations has just been released. Great mix of articles on cutting edge law firm management issues.

  • By
    Janet Accardo, Director of Library Services at Skadden
    Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY
  • Paying Attention to the Canaries in
  • “The word “librarian” hardly covers the breadth of our universe.  We are strategic leaders, research analysts, taxonomists, teachers, digital pioneers, app developers, knowledge managers, information literacy evangelists and competitive intelligence gurus. In short, we are both  educators and digital cartographers who build the bridges and help researchers chart the course  between knowledge from  the past

    Partners and associates competing for work

    On November 14th, ALM Legal Intelligence released a new report “Turf Wars: Defining New Roles and Competing for Business.”  The report is yet another examination of the ongoing impact of the “Great Recession” on the transformation of large law firms. The report contrasts results with a similar 2011

    The March  issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations is out. Articles focus on legal project management in various contexts, Litigation, Knowledge Management, Research, Process Improvement.
    Here are links to the articles:
    Process Improvement and Legal Work Product by Silvia Coulter, LawVision Group
    Distressed Litigation and Legal Project Management by James Buckley and Aileen Levanton, Qlex 

    James Gleick’s 2011 book, The Information: a History, a Theory a Flood documents humanity’s 5 millennia quest to define and organize various galaxies of information.

    A Lesson From The 17th Century

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    In response to an earlier information explosion caused by the proliferation of printed books, 17th-­century writers began compiling  indexes, bibliographies, compendia and encyclopedia