Law is a learned profession. Judges and clerks read case reporters. Law students lug around treatises that look thicker than they are long. Litigators flip through codes, digests, legal encyclopedias and other books with too much agate type.
Surprise: The central theme of AmLaw Tech‘s first survey of law librarians is that books are becoming historic relics at the nation’s largest law firms. Fifty-five percent of the law librarians who responded to our survey of The Am Law 200 reported that their libraries have cut back on shelf space in the past five years. Libraries are canceling subscriptions to law reviews, legal encyclopedias and digests. Even West Group’s state and federal reporters – once the meat and potatoes of every law library – have become flotsam and jetsam at many firms.
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