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Professional Support Lawyers and their Role in Legal Information Provision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2008

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Abstract

Mark Stanley and Tamara Eisenschitz examine the relationship between professional support lawyers and information professionals in law firms of varying sizes. The results broadly support the hypothesis that tensions in larger firms between the two groups are less apparent. More importantly tensions are reduced where each group is doing clearly delineated work, irrespective of the firm's size. Tensions between the two groups are no longer the issue they once were, but these could reignite, especially if information professionals with legal qualifications and PSLs without fee earning experience vye for similar work. This paper recommends that to avoid frictions it is essential for law firm managers to get to grips with the nature and capabilities of these two groups and utilise them appropriately.

Keywords

Professional support lawyersInformation professionals
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Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 131 - 135
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2008

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