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Tuesday April 24, 2012
Shift This!: A Paradigm for Integrating Law School & Law Firm Patent Research
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific)
Description:
One of the primary responsibilities law librarians have in the legal profession is in teaching legal research to law school students to prepare them to take and pass state and national bar examinations. Those law librarians who have students who plan to enter the patent bar have an additional responsibility in this regard. But are these newly accredited lawyers prepared to practice? Historically law firm librarians charged with instructing new attorneys have noted these new lawyers are not ready for the demands of legal research. Why is there a divide? The purpose of this program is to bring the professors from law schools together with law firm librarians, law school students and lawyers, to explore the reasons for the divergence and to create a solution,- a paradigm for patent legal research education.
Speaker Bios:
Geoff Trigger, Law Librarian, Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP.
Geoff has been the Law Librarian at the intellectual law firm "Lerner David" in Westfield, NJ for the past thirteen years. Before holding this position Geoff was the Reference Law Librarian at Chase Manhattan Bank for two years, the Law Librarian at the law firms of "Tenzer Greenblatt " and Gilbert, Segall and Young, also in New York City for the previous twenty years. Geoff was the President of the Law Librarians Association of Greater New York for 1992-3, founding Chair of the Legal Information Services for the Public Committee, LLAGNY. 1990-92 and was a member of the AALL Task Force to Study the Value of Law Libraries in the Information Age, 1995-96. He has authored articles for Practicing Law Institute, the Law Education Institute and presented lectures on legal research and knowledge management at St Johns University Law School, Practicing Law Institute and METRO. Geoff graduated from Germain School of Photography in 1972 and worked in motion picture film production and distribution, until beginning his career in law librarianship at Gilbert, Segall & Young in 1979.
Mary Gilligan, IP Research Services Manager, Library, Jones Day.
More than 27 years ago, Mary answered an employment advertisement in the NY Times which read: Librarian, Patent Law, Box 123456. This was her entree into a new universe of intellectual property law as the Director of Library Services for the boutique Pennie & Edmonds, at the time when the pocket protector nerds were stunned to find themselves in the really cool and hip practice of law. Prior to her "Pennie" days, Mary was the Librarian and Records Managers for the General Counsel of The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies and prior to that a staff member of the Archives of Time Inc. She obtained her MLS from Rutgers University.
Jon R. Cavicchi, Intellectual Property Librarian & Assistant Professor, UNH Law.
Professor Cavicchi for two decades has been the chief administrator of intellectual property information resources at the University of New Hampshire School of Law Intellectual Property Library. UNH Law is the only law school in the U.S. with a dedicated Intellectual Property Library and patent informatics curriculum. He presently teaches Mining Patent Information, Patent Landscape Clinic, Legal Research and Information Literacy and Law Practice: Researching Open IP Web Resources. He is the co-founder and Research Director of the UNH Law International Technology Transfer Institute where he teaches advanced patent search and analysis skills. He manages the U.S.P.T.O. Patent, Trademark Resource Center at UNH Law. He is an author and frequent speaker on IP research and education. In recognition of his expertise in the intellectual property research field, Professor Cavicchi was chosen to sit on the Advisory Board of Questel, focusing on its core business, intellectual property data and solutions, for more than thirty years.
Course fee: FREE
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