Two or three decades ago, visions of associates digging through shelves loaded with statutes and cases engulfed in hundreds of years of legal tradition would have been commonplace. But with the advent of technology and the increasing dependency on Internet research tools, law firm libraries may become a thing of the past.

From U.S. Supreme Court opinions to statute revisions, large amounts of legal records and information are being uploaded onto the Internet to accommodate the rapid pace at which technology is advancing. More and more law firms are gradually turning to companies, such as Lexis Nexis and Westlaw for research purposes, thus decreasing the dependency on traditional book law libraries.

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