Our Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez is the AALL Diversity Committee’s February Librarian of the Month! In the interview/article Lucy shares a bit about herself including her thoughts on diversity:
“Diversity and having a broad range of people with varied backgrounds, experiences, and ideas to draw from, is absolutely essential for any organization. […]
Rosemary Kupfert writes for Law Practice Today about How to Avoid Getting Stuck in a Technology Status Quo. In this helpful article she provides a list of ways to identify a status quo attitude in your firm as well as tips for how to shake things up and make changes.
“Every law firm has been […]
Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog writes about Librarians (Including This One) Back Apple’s Fight Against FBI’s Hacking Request. According to his timely article:
This morning, the American Library Association came out against the FBI’s attempt to order Apple to unlock an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino shooters, who murdered 14 […]
NYLI Lexis Digital Library Webinar
Feb 24 1:30-2:00 pm EST
The New York Law Institute now offers members direct free access to a collection of nearly 400 eBooks from major legal publishers Matthew Bender and the ABA through their new Lexis Digital Library.
Join Research Librarian Karen Oesterle to learn more about this exciting new benefit of NYLI membership.
Find […]
The results of the vote on the proposed AALL name change were announced on February 12th, to the surprise and satisfaction of many. In a landslide, 81.9% of voters cast their vote against the name change. This came as shock to many including Jean O’Grady of Dewey B Strategic who stated:
” I wasn’t surprised that […]
Sarah Glassmeyer writes an extremely insightful article about Puppies and the Future of Legal Technology and Information in which she discusses FOSS (Free Open Source Software) in the legal world, her experience at the LegalTech conference, and current legal news stories which broke last week.
“A common complaint that I see about legal technology of […]
On Wednesday February 17th from 12:30pm – 1:30pm our Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez will be taking part in panel discussion on Mining Gold from Government Data. Pacer Pro will be hosting this event at Cohen & Gresser at 800 3rd Ave off Third. Here’s more information and a link to register:
Mining Gold from Government Data
How […]
The New York Law Institute will be closed for President’s Day on Monday, February 15th. We will reopen on Tuesday, February 16th at 8:30 am.
Robin Chesterman, Product Manager at Justis writes for the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers about The building blocks for more intelligent legal research.
“Until now, legal research has been late to the party, but it’s finally making an entrance, and the implications for lawyers will be profound…
We’ve seen well over ten years of relentless innovation on […]
Robert Ambrogi at Law Sites discusses Thomson Reuters’ new products, a new e-discovery platform, eDiscovery Point, Practice Point, a new research tool, and one unannounced product which will utilize the cognitive computing power of IBM’s Watson…
“TR Legal will be the first to release a product that has Watson “under the hood,” according to Erik […]
