A Model of the Law Firm

1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jene K. Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Law Firm ◽  
The Law

The Death of the Legal Profession and the Future of Law

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Commercial Practice ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Shifts

This article identifies the five large-scale changes that have happened or are happening to the legal profession: 1. How technology solutions have moved law from a wholly bespoke service to one that resembles an off-the-shelf commodity; 2. How globalisation and outsourcing upend traditional expectations that legal work is performed where the legal need is, and shifts production away from high cost centres to low cost centres; 3. How managed legal service providers – who are low cost, technology-enabled, and process-driven – threaten traditional commercial practice; 4. How technology platforms will diminish the significance of the law firm; and 5. How artificial intelligence and machine learning systems will take over a significant portion of lawyers’ work by the end of the 2020s. The article discusses how these changes have transformed or are transforming the practice of law, and explains how institutions within the law will need to respond if they are to remain relevant (or even to survive). More broadly, it examines the social implications of a legal environment where a large percentage of the practice of law is performed by institutions that sit outside the legal profession.

BIALL @ 50 Years: 2010 to date

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 107-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narinder Toor
Keyword(s):  
Support Staff ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Back in December 2009, I joined Arnold & Porter as an information professional. Working at a law firm that values and celebrates the contributions made by their support staff, has meant that this role has transformed into a very rewarding career. Reflecting on the last 10 years, the one word I would use to sum up law librarianship is expertise. As information professionals, we research and review areas and concepts that are unfamiliar but we are adept at not only pinpointing the key points and issues but conveying them with clarity, certainty and confidence. As well as providing this invaluable support, we guide, inform and advise. Over the past decade, BIALL has remained central to the law librarian community, helping us to navigate the ever changing landscape of the legal sector.

Working Together to Provide a Library and Information Enquiry Service to Shell's Legal Community: a Story of Collaboration Between Client and Law Firm Part Two: From the Law Firm Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Davies
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Law

AbstractThis article and the previous one published in this issue of LIM are derived from a joint talk given at the BIALL Annual Conference 2017, which was held in Manchester. The title of the conference was ‘Together or apart? Effective ways of working’ and this talk described the collaboration between Shell's Legal Librarian, Hilary Smith, and Miriam Davies, Head of Library & Information at Norton Rose Fulbright, to provide an enquiry service to Shell's legal community. The service subsequently developed to include other law firms on Shell's legal panel. Topics covered include understanding the information needs of in-house lawyers, types of queries received, why involve law firms in providing such a service, the concept of added value and its importance in the client-law firm relationship, the setting up of the service, how it works in practice, how it is being used and key take away messages. In this article Miriam Davies takes a view from the law firm perspective.

Chinese Walls in the Law Firm: Locked Door or Open Sesame?

1993 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
Jonathan Middleburgh
Keyword(s):  
Law Firm ◽  
The Law

The BIALL Annual Law Firm Library Survey 2015/2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Standard Practice ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Law ◽  
Firm Survey

AbstractThe BIALL annual law firm survey was launched in October 2016. The aim was to understand standard practice across the law firm library sector and to benchmark certain aspects of a library's service against other firms, providing a year-on-year comparison of how the profession is changing. This is an overview of how the survey came about and a summary of the key findings from the first year's results. It was written by the Working Group members. The full survey results can be found on the BIALL website1.

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