LLRX Piece on Summer Associate Training Resources

Margi Heinen and Jan Bissett have an article on LLRX.com about good resources for summer associate reference and training.

WestBlog.net has posted a link to the Arthur Miller Video

WestBlog.net has a link up to the video interview featuring West Key Author Arthur Miller. This video was shown at AALL as part of the West town hall on legal research skills. They blogged about that event in a previous post. Definitely worth a look!

They broke the 14 minute interview with Miller in half, into two video clips:
Arthur Miller (Part 1): Legal research and writing training at law schools
Arthur Miller (Part 2): The “starting point” for legal research and use of technology for it.

A Little Grafting of Second Life into a Legal Research Class

From LLRX:
http://www.llrx.com/features/secondlife.htm
Rob Hudson discusses how Second Life can be used to enhance legal research instruction/ Experiments in full class lectures and other uses of Second Life in higher education offer a mixture of hype and excitement.

JL

Real World Examples of Career Limiting Behavior by Summers

Here is a link to the post on Above the Law that I mentioned in our meeting today, which includes a list of "real world" examples of less-than-desirable summer associate behavior. The list was compiled by NYU Law's Career Services office. Some legal research blunders from the list: "Summer associate turns in a research project that did not answer the question assigned"; "Summer associate plagiarizes paragraph in memorandum from hornbook"; and "Summer associate fails to Shepardize."

Rebooting the Approach to Teaching Legal Research

Rebooting the Approach to Teaching Legal Research: Embracing the Computer Age [2007-32]Carrie W. Teitcher Law Library Journal, V.99, n.3

I haven't read it.
JL

LawFirmInc. Article on Law Firm Librarians' Changing Roles

Interesting article highlighting the evolving role of the law firm librarian from Law.com today. I'm not sure I agree with the Orrick approach of treating "library" as a dirty word, though.

Can We Throw Away the Books Yet?

Brought to our attention by Susan Mart.

(7 Aug) In a meeting the other day, someone asked if I agreed with the general sentiment that research materials were going electronic. He explained that he thought print as a medium was losing ground. And assuming his suppositions were true, he expressed concern that those who continue to conduct research primarily through the books would soon become inefficient, costly and possibly, negligent researchers.

I'm delighted that law firm management is thinking about research resources and methodology. It has always been important. Information is the foundation on which lawyers build a case or advise their clients.But in the past, the act of gathering, assessing and analyzing information hasn't always received the attention it deserves.

Read the rest of the article at the TVC site.
Alternative link: http://tinyurl.com/yttkad