LIS in City Law Firms: the City Legal Information Group Professional Skills Survey 2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunstan Speight ◽  
Lisa Sabbage
Keyword(s):  
Law Firms ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Group ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The City

AbstractCLIG (City Legal information Group) Committee members Dunstan Speight and Lisa Sabbage report on the findings of the CLIG Professional Skills survey, winter 2013*. Information professional roles have developed in different directions in law firms in recent years and this survey sought to map the range of tasks being carried out by information professionals. It also documented the range of skills within the profession, including skills and experience which law firms might be able to exploit further. The hope is that, by showing the diversity of tasks and skills to be found in LIS departments across the City, the survey might offer individuals ideas and strategies for developing their roles within their own firms.

Legal Information Services in South Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olwyn Garratt
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Large City ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Independent Contractors ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Small Practice ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Professionals

There are currently 18,456 attorneys and Candidate attorneys registered with the Law Society of South Afric and 5,941 registered law firms (CLE 2002). Data is not yet available regarding the size distribution of these law firms but a glance at any of the national legal directories will reveal that the majority of attorneys operate as solo practitioners or in association with a few colleagues. A large city practice will generally be well supplied with information resources and with assistance from a librarian or information professional. In a small practice, the information resources that the attorney has at his or her disposal may be limited to a few textbooks, supplemented in some cases with access to electronic databases and Internet resources. Small practices seldom employ information professionals, although they may make use of the services of information agencies and independent contractors to assist with research and/or information management.

scholarly journals The Role of Information Professionals in Protecting National History and Sovereignty

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Farah Wahieda Azman ◽  
Saiful Farik Mat Ya ◽  
Nur Aliaa Amanina Mohd Aminuddin ◽  
Nurhidayah Ahmad Dzarawi ◽  
Kamarul Azwan Azman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
External Pressure ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
National History ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Neighboring Country ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Role Of Information

Protecting for sovereignty can be an effective tool in order to cope with relations between states, drawing boundaries of acceptable behavior. It’s also a way of judging the actions taken from a state, whose owns ultimate power that always make the principle of sovereignty expendable. Information professional today play critical roles to ensure that state sovereignty would be strengthening and protecting them from external pressure. This paper highlights the need to pay more attention to the aspects of sovereignty that related with information professional roles and issues of Malaysian’s neighboring country. Ignoring these aspects of sovereignty will lead to the issues that can threaten national sovereignty and peace. 

BIALL Regional and Special Interest Groups

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-185 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Active Area ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Group ◽  
Anniversary Issue ◽  
The City

AbstractAs part of the 40th Anniversary Issue we are including information about some of the regional groups which have come into existence since the foundation of the Association, as this has been a particularly active area of our work. We have not included the City Legal Information Group in this article as we covered it in Vol.8 (4) 257–259.

Embedded Legal Information Professionals: Challenges and Opportunities

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 212-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wilson ◽  
Cosmo Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information Professionals

Abstract‘Embedded librarianship’ has been on the rise in the legal sector since the early 2000s, but what is it and why has it become so popular? This article, written by Peter Wilson and Cosmo Anderson, aims to open up the wider conversations around embedded librarianship through a combination of the authors' practical experience and original research of librarians in UK and Irish law firms.

Editorial

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
Christine Miskin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
College Of Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Information Professionals

There are three main themes in this, the first issue of LIM for 2005. We begin with a series of short articles on the perils, pitfalls and challenges of multi-site working within the legal information environment. I am very grateful to the large number of people who have contributed to this theme by answering a short questionnaire that we put together in an attempt to ascertain what the key issues are. Some of our contributors have elected to answer the questions given as a template and others have adopted a more narrative style. Unfortunately we did not manage to get a contribution from an academic library. We do have articles from a number of our well-known large regional/City law firms, plus contributions from two smaller Scottish firms and the experiences of the College of Law. As a precursor to this theme our topical issues section features an article by Elisabeth Tooms, until recently Global Head of Library Services at Allen & Overy, on the challenges involved in running what must be the ultimate multi-site library with a staff of over 70 information professionals scattered around the world. Elisabeth also traces the history of her involvement in the development of the service from its beginnings in the early 1980's. At the other end of the spectrum Isabel Hood has written a wonderfully down-to-earth account of the stresses and strains of being a one-person library and information service in a multi-site law firm.

Free v Fee: Drivers and Barriers to the Use of Free and Paid-for Legal Information Resources

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Information Resources ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Professionals

This article by Thomas Shaw discusses the key findings of an MSc dissertation which examined legal information professionals' perceptions of what facilitates, and what impedes, the use of free and paid-for legal information resources. It also compares and contrasts the views of information professionals working in academia with those working in law firms. It is situated in the context of significant criticism of commercial legal publishing and the existence of many resources providing free legal information.

Developing Effective Partnerships Between Professional Support Lawyers and Information Professionals

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-43 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Information Professionals

Jennifer Barrow, Head of Knowledge Management at Baker & McKenzie, presented a paper to the BIALL Annual Conference in Edinburgh in June 2004 which discussed effective strategies for managing the sometimes difficult relationship that can exist between legal information professionals and professional support lawyers in large law firms.

LORD of the Links: The Legal Online Resources Database

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
James Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Online Resources ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
Information Professionals

At the 2004 BIALL Conference the Legal Online Resources Directory (LORD) was launched. The Legal Information Group (LIG) is currently developing the Directory to meet the needs of today's information professionals. James Mullan, Chair of LIG, gives a history of the LORD project and an outline of its possible future.

FRBR, RDA and Law Libraries

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Access Information

AbstractOver the past few years the cataloguing community has seen radical changes in cataloguing standards, changes which appear to have been largely ignored by legal information professionals. This is a mistake according to Helen Doyle; the new cataloguing model can have enormous implications for the legal community, particularly in the spheres of information and knowledge management, and the profession is missing a huge opportunity by ignoring it. A new cataloguing standard (RDA) has been developed based on an alternative theoretical approach, known as “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records” (FRBR). FRBR seeks to change the way we approach the bibliographic universe: from stand-alone, individual repositories of information to networks of linked data built on a structured hierarchy. Commercial law firms are constantly trying to make connections between their traditional resources, online repositories, internal know-how, etc, but struggle to achieve complete synchronicity. FRBR provides a solution to this knowledge management problem: all resources (including people, events and subjects) become searchable, and because everything is linked, users can access information by navigating to it, establishing their own pathway through the data. Moreover, the major legal databases are already utilising linked data in this way – it is time for law firms to catch up.

Commercial and Regulatory Evolution of Legal Services: Implications for the Information Professional

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mayson
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Regulatory Evolution ◽  
Client Relationships ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Professionals

AbstractThis Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture 2015, delivered by Professor Stephen Mayson2, explores the commercial evolution of law as a business, and draws attention to the disconnect between this development and continuing significant unmet need for legal services and prohibitively high fees for consumers and small businesses. The evolution is therefore supposed to be far from complete, and is hampered by the broken business model of law firms. A further shortcoming is the regulatory framework for legal services. Although this, too, has evolved in recent years with the introduction of the Legal Services Act 2007, the framework is nevertheless built on the still-complex and limiting structure of reserved activities, regulatory objectives and prescriptive detail. The author then explores the implications for information professionals, and highlights the opportunities for them to contribute to the development of ‘knowing management’, to the better education and training of legal practitioners, to helping them and their organisations address greater complexity and fluidity in regulation, and to harnessing market and client intelligence to improve the quality and relevance of legal services and the value of client relationships. The themes of cooperation, collaboration and connectivity underpin all of these opportunities, and contribute to the possibility of shaping and re-forming the role of the information professional in the 21st century.

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