NYLI Wishes Pheobe Hurtte a Happy Retirement!

Join us for this brand-new webinar featuring an overview of the new LLMC website.  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, an extensive archive of historical primary and specialized legal materials covering the U.S. federal and state governments,…

Staff Picks: NYLI’s Super Superseded Collection by Brooke Raymond I’ve been at NYLI since June 2022 and am still continually amazed at the breadth of its collection.   It’s been hard to pick a favorite – our print, eBooks, Records & Briefs, LLMC, ProQuest Congressional and all the standard databases – are all essential resources for…

With my decorating partner Pheobe Hurtte retiring over the Summer, I was both stumped as to holiday book themes and missing her able assistance with ornaments… Over the long Thanksgiving Break, NYLI experienced a once in a lifetime visit of what is popularly called Librarian Gnomes. Much like Halley’s Comet, they only show up once…

Obviously, Abraham Lincoln is immediately identified as a U.S. President…. But it could easily be argued that Lincoln is the still the best lawyer who ever became President…. Lincoln is estimated to have been a lawyer for approximately 5,600 cases and presided as a pro-tem Judge for about 300… Corporate Tax Law? Lincoln was attorney…