Join your colleagues for drinks at appetizers at the Merchant in Downtown Crossing, Tuesday September 17 at 5:30! Please be sure to RSVP to Caroline Safreed (caroline.safreed@wilmerhale.com) if you are planning on attending! The Merchant 60 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110
The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy. Need a summer read recommendation? Look no further than Waltham! Local journalist Susan Zalkind will be at the Social Law Library on September 24th to talk to ABLL members about her book the Waltham Murders and the way she approached this research. You can also learn about this gruesome triple homicide in the ABC News documentary The … Read more
This is a panel presentation with a discussion to follow. Three ABLL firm members will present the processes they went through in order to evaluate different news aggregators, which products they selected, how they rolled it out to their stakeholders, and the pros and cons of each. There will be a discussion after the presentation for participants to ask questions and offer their own tips and tricks. Products being discussed include Vable, Osmosys, Newsdesk, Manzama, … Read more
Librarians and Libations at Citrus and Salt! Be sure to RSVP to Caroline if you plan to attend. Date: Wednesday, July 31st Time: 5:30pm Location: Citrus & Salt | 319 A St, Boston, MA 02210 RSVP to caroline.safreed@wilmerhale.com ****Cash Bar****
eBooks: Best Practices and How to Increase Adoption. Tuesday, May 14th at noon by Zoom: Brown Bag, hosted by David Goldman and Christie Schauder Some topics that will be covered: • How are firms using eBooks today if at all. (i.e. replacement for print desk sets) • Do eBooks have a specific purpose in the current legal research landscape or are they merely duplicative of existing content • What are the challenges to … Read more
For full details please see: http://llnespring2024.socialaw.com/ Presented by ABLL and LLNE Hosted by the Social Law Library Morning Session: Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Hon. Scott L. Kafker, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Professor Amar is a renowned legal historian and constitutional-law scholar who has been cited by U.S. Supreme Court justices in more than 45 cases. His most recent book, The Words That … Read more
Join us on Wednesday, March 27 from 12pm-1pm as we share some of our favorite free legal websites & more! Come prepared to share. For more information and to RSVP email: Kirsten Leary
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at NOON – “We have access to that?” : When you hear that, don’t you feel like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”? How do we inform users about our subscription resources? How do we measure the value of these resources to our users? This brown bag meeting is based on a discussion den topic from AALL 2023 (prior attendance not required). Andrea Rasmussen at Latham & Watkins is hosting this hybrid … Read more
Join Rebecca Fordon, a law librarian at the Ohio State University Moritz Law Library, on Monday, January 22, 2024, at 11am for the webinar “AI for Law Librarians.” It seems like a new AI tool is being released every minute – how can we keep up and learn to critically evaluate these products? In this session, we’ll review the terminology and go over some of the key new products. We’ll also provide a checklist for … Read more
Thursday, December 7th at 2pm Join ABLL members Katelyn Cidlevich, Wendi Hoffenberg, Kim Martin, and Karen Rutherford for an hour long presentation on prior art declarations, date-stamps, and more. This presentation will discuss the process of obtaining prior art declarations or date-stamps required in the course of patent litigation. It will address the background, challenges, and helpful resources that can be used to track down these materials. RSVP: Email Kirsten at kleary@socialaw.com