This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here. After a week of productive discussions on topics like ebooks, legal research training, and legal education, we asked Anne Ellis, senior director of Librarian Relations at Thomson Reuters, to reflect on the 2013 …
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Lessons learned at AALL
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys have always had a strong affinity with law librarians. Our jobs are similar. We respond to a maddeningly diverse set of research requests and, as the legal market changes, so do our responsibilities. Now, we find ourselves taking on more responsibilities …
Librarians are uniquely equipped to provide practical training: Help your firm get ahead
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! Law librarians are equipped with superior research skills, organizational skills, familiarity with copyright issues, technical skills and the ability to work across departments and practice areas with …
Dan Dabney on reclassifying headnotes in the Key Number System
In the video below, Dan Dabney, chief taxonomist at Thomson Reuters, describes how our attorney-editors continue to make alterations to the Key Number System, including reclassifying 300,000 headnotes for the revisions to the Election Key Number. This year, the editorial staff also combined the topics “schools” and “colleges and universities” into a new topic: “education.” This …
The global challenges and opportunities of corporate responsibility
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! As a law librarian, you understand the responsibility inherent in your role as a steward of information. By the same token, corporate responsibility is deeply-rooted in the …
Justice Paul H. Anderson at the AALL Annual Meeting: On “Access to Justice”
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! “Law librarians do play an essential role by educating the people as to their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. The resources you provide are capable …
Law librarians and knowledge management: Tips from West km
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! Although knowledge management can provide the efficiency that firms are increasingly striving to achieve, many decision makers at firms are reluctant to adopt the process. To find …
The new alert management center on WestlawNext
This post is a message from the 2013 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. To read other posts in the series, click here, and watch for more content soon! Although we have not departed radically from what we have been doing for 140 years, Thomson Reuters has helped its solutions to evolve naturally with legal business …
Thomson Reuters launches Company Investigator
Finding the right information on a company’s business structure and relationships can be like searching for a needle in haystack. Thomson Reuters Company Investigator helps users find information on companies to assist with business development, litigation, due diligence and a host of other applications. Company Investigator accesses more than 30 million company profiles, including 20 million hard-to-find …
From the floor at AALL: Practice technology for academics
This post was written by Mike Carlson, reference attorney at Thomson Reuters Reference attorneys are among the folks participating in this year’s American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference. At the end of the first day on Sunday, we chatted about some trends we noticed working the trade show floor. One clear trend was the …
