The New York Law Institute will close at 3:00 PM on Friday, August 31, 2018 and will be closed on Monday, September 3, 2018 in observance of the Labor Day national holiday. NYLI will reopen at 8:30 AM on Tuesday the 4th of September.
The New York Law Institute is recruiting for a Research Librarian/Legal Information Specialist. This critical position provides legal, business, and general information services to NYLI’s members using print, historical, and electronic resources. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the Executive Director and Senior Research Librarian to support NYLI’s mission.
Located in Manhattan’s financial district, […]
Cassie Dubay at RIPS Law Librarian Blog is writing a three-part series on self-evaluation entitled Implementing Opportunities for Self-Evaluation which she explains could be helpful with new attorneys or summer associates.
“Example questions include:
What is a secondary source?
Name one specific title of a secondary source you have heard of or have used.
The citation “Pub. L. […]
Jean O’Grady writes for Dewey B Strategic about a new report from American Lawyer Media entitled Law Firms Need Intelligence to Stay in the game.
“The report highlights the risks of law firm complacency in ignoring AI as corporate clients both embrace AI themselves and seek out alternative legal research providers which are leveraging AI […]
Kristan J. Wheaton at Sources and Methods is writing a six-part series of articles discussing what intel professionals need to think about when they are in a meeting with decision makers. She has published the first three parts of the series and will follow up wth part 4 “What does the DM mean when […]
Sarah Lamdan writes for LLRX about the growing trend of Surveillance and Legal Research Providers.
“Legal research companies are selling surveillance data and services to law enforcement agencies including ICE. Their participation in government surveillance raises ethical questions about privacy, confidentiality and financial support: How private is your search history when your legal research vendors […]
The New York Law Institute will close at 3pm on Thursday, August 9th so that staff may attend an event. We will re-open on Friday, August 10th at 8:30am.
The New York Law Institute is recruiting for a Research Librarian/Legal Information Specialist. This critical position provides legal, business, and general information services to NYLI’s members using print, historical, and electronic resources. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with the Executive Director and Senior Research Librarian to support NYLI’s mission.
Located in Manhattan’s financial district, […]
Robert Ambrogi writes for Law Sites about Law Librarians: Keeping The Industry Honest.
“Hand in hand with the changing role of law librarians is the fact that information science itself is being radically transformed by technology. The buzzwords permeating this conference were the same you’ll hear at any legal technology conference — artificial intelligence, analytics, […]
David Lat writes for Above the Law about the The State Of Biglaw And The Evolving Role Of The Law Librarian.
“Kovalan opened the discussion by sharing findings from ALM Intelligence’s annual survey of law librarians. He showed a chart reflecting what many observers of Biglaw already know: since the Great Recession, demand for Biglaw […]
