This year’s summit will be held viz Zoom on Friday, March 1, 2024 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET The deadline to register for the Diversity Summit is Friday, February 23 (with zero exceptions). Please note, check payments will no longer be accepted after Friday, February 9 and any new registrations must be paid in full with a credit card. REGISTER NOW! Keynote Angela Winfield, Founder of Blind Faith Enterprises LLC Winfield is Vice President and chief diversity officer for the Law School Admission Council. In this role, she provides leadership, vision, energy, and a unified philosophy to LSAC’s dive ..read more

Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals SIS members will be participating in Legalweek 2024. On Monday, January 29, AALL PLLIP-SIS members will present three educational programs tailored specifically to legal information professionals. “Bridging the Gap: Actionable Opportunities for Firm-Academic Technology Collaboration” / Leigh Zeiser (BakerHostetler); Patrick Parsons (Georgia State University College of Law); and Michelle Hook Dewey (Georgia State University) “AI Empowering Your Law Practice: From Selecting a Tool to Partnering with a Vendor” / Katherine Lowry (BakerHostetl ..read more

Jeremy Sullivan, Senior Manager of Competitive Intelligence, DLA Piper Reposted with permission from AALL Spectrum, Volume 28, Number 3 (January/February 2024), pgs 26-29 In what has become an all-too-familiar story, Jeremy Sullivan found his way to law librarianship by accident. After receiving his BA in history from the University of California, Davis, he struggled to find a job. Unsure of what to do, he remembered he had enjoyed working in a public library, so he decided to apply for a master’s in library science. “As soon as I got accepted into library school, I also received my first ..read more

Reposted with permission from AALL Spectrum, Volume 28, Number 3 (January/February 2024), pgs 40-41 By Josh Farley, Coordinator Competitive Intelligence, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Why balancing tactical and strategic intelligence is vital to building a successful competitive intelligence function. Competitive intelligence (CI) can help law firm marketing and business development (MBD) teams gain insights, identify opportunities, and avoid threats in a dynamic and competitive legal environment. But how should CI professionals approach their work? Should they prioritize tactical intellig ..read more

Law Firm AI And CI: A Conversation (PLLIP-SIS) January 24, 2024 12:00 PM CST Register Here The application of AI (a.k.a LLMs) has been focused on cases, statutes/regulations and complaint summaries. Recently, however, there have been efforts to apply these tools to CI/BI projects, with varying degrees of success. Our panel will discuss the application and limitation of these tools to Intelligence gathering projects as well as the potential for the future. Takeaways: 1. An understanding of how AI can be applied to industry and company research. 2. The limitations of AI in Competitive and Busin ..read more

Written by Christine Dulac. Christine is a Research & Knowledge Analyst at Bernstein Shur Sawyer and Nelson in Portland, ME. For twenty years I was an academic law librarian but in August of 2022 I moved to the law firm of Bernstein Shur Sawyer and Nelson in Portland, ME.  I was excited about this new job and the challenges it presented.  I am now a solo librarian working in Maine’s largest law firm.  As the director at the University of Maine School of Law, I had a staff, albeit a small one!  My work was focused on the administrative side of the job—strategic planning ..read more

Last week, a question was posed on MyCommunities. We reached out to see if we could share the results. Question: “Our team routinely utilizes a variety of sources to satisfy document delivery requests of scientific and technical articles, including original sources. Occasionally we exhaust all such resources and are unable to procure article copies, particularly from foreign sources.  Could you share recommendations on any fee-based document delivery services you use for such sources?” Top Answers: Wisconsin Tech Search Retriev-It (Steve Wasserman) Documents Delivered Research Solutions ..read more

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Welcome to our newest section of OFG! We’re excited to get to know more about our members ..read more

This question was posted to the PLLIP MyCommunities page on October 10, 2023. Submit the questions that you’d like us to ask the membership! mkelleher@nixonpeabody.com ..read more