NYLI News

Embed at Your Own Risk, Says a New York Federal Court: Embedding Copyrighted Images on Your Website and Social Media May Lead to Charges of Copyright Infringement

Maria R. Sinatra and Marcella Ballard of Venable LLP write for Lexology about possible copyright infringement on social media.
“Does your business or publication link or embed copyrighted content on your website or social media? If you routinely do the latter, a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New […]

By |March 26th, 2018|News from the Field|Comments Off on Embed at Your Own Risk, Says a New York Federal Court: Embedding Copyrighted Images on Your Website and Social Media May Lead to Charges of Copyright Infringement
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The New York Law Institute presents The Search for Alexander Hamilton and the Missing Librarian

NYLI members are invited to The New York Law Institute’s escape room experience: The Search for Alexander Hamilton and the Missing Librarian: A Time Travel Adventure.

When: Wednesday, April 11th at 12:30pm, Wednesday, April 11th at 5:00pm, Wednesday, April 11th at 6:15pm

Where: The New York Law Institute, 120 Broadway, Suite 932, New York, NY

What: Resident librarian, cat lover, and conspiracy theorist Addison […]

By |March 26th, 2018|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on The New York Law Institute presents The Search for Alexander Hamilton and the Missing Librarian
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The “2018 State of Corporate Law Departments” Report: Modern Law Departments Taking More Proactive Stance

The On Firmer Ground blog features and article which discusses the 2018 State of Corporate Law Departments.
“Today’s modern corporate law department has taken a more proactive position within its organization, seeking not to be seen (as it too often was in the past) as a cost-center or — worse yet — the department of […]

By |March 21st, 2018|News from the Field|Comments Off on The “2018 State of Corporate Law Departments” Report: Modern Law Departments Taking More Proactive Stance
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NYLI Will Be Closed Wednesday March 21st

Due to inclement weather, The New York Law Institute will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday March 21st and will re-open at 8:30 am on Thursday, March 22nd.

By |March 20th, 2018|Announcements|Comments Off on NYLI Will Be Closed Wednesday March 21st
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LLMC-Digital Webinar

Webinar times are: Eastern Time

Optimize your records and briefs research with LLMC-Digital

The Library of the New York Law Institute offers web-based training sessions to help you discover new resources and enhance your research with LLMC-Digital, an extensive archive of historical primary and specialized legal materials covering the U.S. federal and state governments, the British […]

By |March 19th, 2018|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on LLMC-Digital Webinar
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NYLI Members Opinions Count…Please take our survey!!

NYLI members, your opinion counts as NYLI plans for its future…Take our 5 minute survey now!

The New York Law Institute has partnered with Law Library Management to create this anonymous survey to help direct NYLI as we plan for our third century.

And please feel free to forward this on to others in your organization who make […]

By |March 13th, 2018|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on NYLI Members Opinions Count…Please take our survey!!
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NYLI Services New Staff Orientation Webinar

The New York Law Institute now offers members a variety of resources and services including 2 eBooks collections providing access to over 160,000 eBook titles. We offer the entire West Academic Nutshells series in eBook format, hundreds of ABA titles, and Mathew Bender legal treatises.  We also offer access to valuable electronic resources such as […]

By |March 12th, 2018|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on NYLI Services New Staff Orientation Webinar
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Where to next? We’d love to hear from you!

We here at the New York Law Institute would love your opinion on how we’re doing and what direction we should take going forward.  Please take a moment to participate in our survey.

As the New York Law Institute enters its 190th year, the Board of Trustees and Management would like to take stock of […]

By |March 8th, 2018|Announcements, New at NYLI|Comments Off on Where to next? We’d love to hear from you!
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Through Sleet and Snow, NYLI Staff Are Here to Meet Your Research Needs

The snow has kept us from our physical space but NYLI IS open today – virtually!!  We are here to answer your research questions and all of our electronic resources are available for your use. Please don’t return any books today as we won’t be accepting them – any and all late fees will […]

By |March 7th, 2018|Announcements|Comments Off on Through Sleet and Snow, NYLI Staff Are Here to Meet Your Research Needs
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Lawyers, Developers Team Up in Hackathon to Revamp Legal Industry

The winning team of the recent “Global Legal Hackathon” hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco seeks to provide a platform to fund and expedite class action suits using blockchain technology.

Read more here.

By |March 7th, 2018|News from the Field|Comments Off on Lawyers, Developers Team Up in Hackathon to Revamp Legal Industry
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