Category «Legal Technology»

Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award

By Kara Phillips

Kara Phillips, Collection Development Librarian/Associate Director at Seattle University Law Library since 1997, has worked for various state agencies in Washington as a contract librarian as well as the Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department and Lane Powell Spears Lubersky. Recipient of a Blakemore Fellowship, she studied Mandarin Chinese at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan in 1996 and during her sabbatical in 2007 will work in China, setting up an American legal collection at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Law.

Subjects: Features, Libraries & Librarians

Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: Do Something More With Your Web Browser Homepage

Frederick L. Faulkner IV recommends a set of tools and services as the foundation of your personalized homepage, and provides a step-by-step guide on how to create one efficiently and effectively.

Subjects: Faulkner's Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys, Legal Profession, Legal Technology, RSS Newsfeeds, Web Utilities

E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc.: Keeping Current with E-Discovery Law

Conrad J. Jacoby discusses several items that should be at the top of every practitioner’s list of e-discovery orientation activities, including carefully chosing educational activities that can increase an attorney’s ability to successfully work through the e-discovery aspects of their clients’ matters.

Subjects: Continuing Legal Education, E-Discovery, E-Discovery Update, Legal Research

Burney’s Gadgets for Legal Pros – Reviews: Dragon Speaking Naturally 9 and Adobe Acrobat 8

Brett Burney reviews the improvements in voice-recognition software and recommends that attorneys consider the software as a complementary application to their current choices. In addition, he offers an overview of the new features in the latest version of Acrobat.

Subjects: Adobe Acrobat, Burney's Legal Tech Reviews, E-Discovery, Information Management, Legal Technology, Litigation Support

A Cup of Creativi-tea: Writer’s Block

Terri Wilson suggests a number of creativity exercises that can be of assistance when writer’s block sets in, and deadlines loom.

Subjects: Law Librarians, Libraries & Librarians, Library Marketing

Reference From Coast to Coast: Are They Finding What They Need?

Welcome to Reference From Coast to Coast: Sources and Strategies, a column written by Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen.

Jan Bissett is Reference Librarian with Dickinson Wright PLLC.

Subjects: Legal Research, Legal Research Training, Reference from Coast to Coast, Summer Associate Programs

Features – The State of the Law Library Blogosphere

The State of the Law Library Blogosphere

by Bonnie Shucha

Bonnie Shucha is Head of Reference, University of Wisconsin Law Library

Subjects: Blogs, Features, Information Management, Law Librarians, Law Library Management, Libraries & Librarians, Library Marketing, RSS Newsfeeds

Features – Pragmatic Approaches to Knowledge Management

Pragmatic Approaches to Knowledge Management

By Ron Friedmann, Prism Legal Consulting, Inc.

Subjects: Features, Information Management, Law Firm Marketing

Features – Refining the Standard: Authenticating Computer-Based Evidence

Refining the Standard: Authenticating Computer-Based Evidence

M. Sean Fosmire is a shareholder in the Michigan law firm of Garan Lucow Miller, P.C., based in the firm’s Marquette office.

Subjects: Discovery, E-Discovery, Features, Legal Research

Features – Its Not Rocket Science: Making Sense of Scientific Evidence

It’s Not Rocket Science: Making Sense of Scientific Evidence

By Paul Barron

Paul Barron is the Director of the Library and Archives at the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. This is a revised version of an article published in the Virginia Lawyer in December 2005[1]

Subjects: Features, Legal Research, Search Engines, Search Strategies

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