Victor Li of the ABA Journal chats with Jean O’Grady, NYLI Board member and the law librarian behind Dewey B Strategic. She explains how new technology drives efficiency in legal work and how librarians have a role in sorting through the multitude of technology to find the best tools for the job.
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September 27th @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern
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Using social media for investigations is nothing new, but with a platform like Snapchat things can get a little complicated. With content that purportedly ‘disappears,’ Snapchat seems like a safe space for users to post anything. This might be the very reason it makes for an invaluable source of information. JoEllen Marsh of Social […]
In Lawyer’s Weekly, Lara Bullock quotes a speaker at the ALPMA Legal Management Summit. The article reviews the new survival problems law firms face and how they should respond. The overall message being: adaptation keeps you afloat for a short time, but transformation creates new life for law firms.
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Our own Director of Information Technology, Ellyssa Valenti (Kroski) will be traveling to Indiana next week to offer training workshops across the state based on her upcoming book The Makerspace Librarian’s Sourcebook to be published by the American Library Association in February 2017.
In a recent podcast, Robert Ambrogi of the Law Sites blog chats to the founder of Opus 2, Graham Smith-Bernal. They discuss how his company’s services simplify collaboration and access to litigation content.
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Stephanie Francis Ward of the ABA Journal covers the implications of Ross Intelligence, i.e. the “AI Lawyer.” Its creator, Jimoh Ovbiagele, emphasizes its role in reducing legal fees for the overwhelming majority of people who can’t afford representation. He also points out that Ross is meant to cut difficulty and cost, not lawyers out […]
We have recently acquired more Nutshell eBooks to add to our growing eBooks collection including the following 20 titles. All Nutshell digital books are cataloged in our OPAC and are available through our our OverDrive eBooks collection:
· Federal Civil Jurisdiction in a Nutshell
· First Amendment Law in a Nutshell
· Government Contracts in a Nutshell
· Intellectual […]
The New York Law Institute will close at 3:30 PM on Friday, September 2, 2016 and will be closed on Monday, September 5, 2016 in observance of the Labor Day national holiday. NYLI will reopen at 8:30 AM on Tuesday the 6th.
