Guide on the Side – ASTD, Awesome Sites for Trainers and Others Who Develop Staff
Guide on the Side ASTD: Awesome Sites for Trainers and Others Who Develop Staff By Marie Wallace
Published April 1, 1999
Features – Electronic Discovery – Or, the Byte that Bit
Electronic Discovery – Or, the Byte that Bit By George Socha
George Socha is a shareholder with Halleland Lewis Nilan Sipkins & Johnson whose practice focuses on complex toxic tort, products liability, and commercial litigation. George also concentrates on the effective use of technology to support and enhance the practice of law. In addition to overseeing the firm’s selection, implementation and use of computer technology, Mr. Socha is co-chair of the Subcommittee on Litigation Technologies, Committee on Corporate Counsel, ABA Section of Litigation; a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Technology Committee; and a member of the ABA TechShow’s advisory board. He served as an ABA liaison to the group that created the Uniform Task Based Management System and on the ABA Working Group on Litigation Support Software Guidelines. He has written and lectured extensively on the use of technology in the practice of law. Mr. Socha received a J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1987.
Features – Outsourcing in Law Firm Libraries
Outsourcing in Law Firm Libraries By Rachel Pergament
Rachel Pergament is the Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Southern California Law Library. She graduated from UCLA with an M.L.I.S. degree. This article is a summary of a paper submitted to the 1999 Matthew Bender/AALL Call for Papers competition.
Latest Links – Alphabet Soup, etc…..
(Posted April 1, 1999; Archived April 19, 1999)
Alphabet Soup http://members.aol.com/nigthomas/alphabet.html
This site has an alphabetical index of 900 acronyms and abbreviations used in Internet chat rooms, e-mail, and newsgroups with their explanations.
Extras – Asking All the Right Questions: Researching Possible Conflicts of Interest
Asking All the Right Questions: Researching Possible Conflicts of Interests By Rochelle Cheifetz
Rochelle Cheifetz is the head librarian for Rosenman & Colin LLP. She previously worked as Head Librarian at Haskins & Sells and Brookdale Institute of Gerontology in Jerusalem, Israel. She was also editor of “Research” for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Director of Libraries for Legal Aid Society of New York. She received an MLS from Rutgers University and a MA from New York University.
ResearchWire – Environmental Law on the Web
ResearchWire Environmental Law on the Web By Diana Botluk
Diana Botluk is an online legal information professional who lectures, teaches and writes about finding law-related information in an online environment. She is the author of The Legal List: Research on the Internet, and a columnist for Internet Law Researcher newsletter, with a column called Finding Information on the World Wide Web. She teaches basic, advanced and online legal research at the University of Maryland, and Internet classes at CAPCON Library Network. She has lectured at many professional conferences, is actively involved in the Law Librarians Society of D.C. and the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a reference librarian at Catholic University Law School, where she earned her J.D. in 1984.
ResearchWire – Discoveries in Elder Law
ResearchWire Discoveries in Elder Law By Genie Tyburski
Genie Tyburski is the Research Librarian for Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP and the Web Manager of The Virtual Chase: A Research Site for Legal Professionals .
Latest Links – Burwell World Directory of Information Brokers, etc…
(Posted March 15, 1999; Archived April 1, 1999)
Burwell World Directory of Information Brokers http://www.andornot.com/ibdb/quick.html
This site includes nearly 1,000 listings of information retrieval experts in thirty-eight countries in its database. Listings include company name, address, contact, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, website url, subjects covered, services, company description, databases searched, hours of operation, fees, memberships, and publications, language expertise, country experience, foreign database experience, and telephone experience.
Extras – CD-ROMs: Friends or Foes
CD-ROMs: Friends or Foes? By Mariann Storck
Mariann Storck is the Law Library Manager at Godfrey & Kahn SC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Godfrey & Kahn is a medium sized firm with four satellite offices, all located in Wisconsin. Previously, Mariann was Assistant Librarian and Cataloger at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee, and a teacher in Milwaukee area schools.
Notes from the Technology Trenches – March, 1999
Notes from the Technology Trenches By Elizabeth H. Klampert
Published March 15, 1999
Elizabeth H. Klampert is the Director of Library Services for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Klampert was formerly a litigator for five years, specializing in professional liability litigation. Before attending law school, she was a corporate librarian for twelve years, holding management positions in libraries in a number of large organizations, including Rainier National Bank in Seattle, Deloitte & Touche, and Merrill Lynch, both in New York. She received both her BA in English and MLS from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.