For many years, Alvin Podboy, Baker & Hostetler’s recently retired director of library systems, wrote an annual “state of the union” essay for Law Technology News. When invited to write this year’s perspective, my first thought was to ask one of our reference librarians to co-author, as they’re younger and more connected to the online world.
But I decided to fly solo. Baby Boomers know a thing or two about online legal information; many of us were there at the creation. In 1978, I was responsible for getting Lexis for the George Washington Law School. When I moved to the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980 we used Juris, a home-grown legal information system that eventually succumbed to the far superior Lexis and Westlaw. Dedicated and UBIQ terminals, dial-up access, thermal paper, we’ve seen it all.
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