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The first winner of the ICLR Pupillage Award

For a select few, obtaining pupillage is a foregone conclusion. Most pupillage-hopefuls, however, invariably find themselves plunged into an unbearable state of limbo, punctuated by obsessively checking the post and their email for news of an interview. The whole process of applying for pupillage reminded me of a massively protracted penalty shoot-out, the outcome of Continue reading

#AALL16 – Chicago, here we come!

Team ICLR is in Chicago for the 109th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Association of Law Libraries. The theme is “Make it New: Create the Future”. This is our conference diary, which we’ll top up daily. The ICLR team in Chicago is a pair of Pauls – Paul Hastings, Account Manager, and Paul Continue reading

In Dublin for #biall2016: conference diary – continued

The story so far: Team ICLR is in Dublin for the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. (Link to the earlier post here.) Now read on. Thursday 9 June Start of the conference proper. Our task is to explain what ICLR does to the newer delegates who may not already Continue reading

In Dublin for #biall2016: conference diary

Team ICLR is in Dublin this week for the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. With a packed programme of talks and discussions, and a chance to meet some new subscribers and catch up with all our existing friends among the publishers and librarians, it promises to be a memorable Continue reading

We walked the walk! Please help support legal advice in 2016

The ICLR team walked the London Legal Walk. Our team of law reporters and editors included Celia Fox, Isobel Collins, Scott McGlinchey, Georgina Orde, Susanne Rook and Tom Barnes. Here are some photographs taken along the way.       We were walking with the Lord Chief Justice and thousands of lawyers to raise funds for the London Continue reading

ICLR at CALL 2016 – Competences, Challenges, Connections

COMPETENCIES, CHALLENGES, CONNECTIONS is the theme for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit annual Conference 2016, which is being held at Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is dedicated to promoting the networking, professional development and career growth of all law librarians in Canada, no matter Continue reading

Expanding The Weekly Law Reports – Introducing Volume 4

We are pleased to announce a significant expansion in the coverage offered by The Weekly Law Reports. Since it entered circulation in 1953, The Weekly Law Reports has provided the most up to date and comprehensive generalist coverage of law-changing judgments in England and Wales. Over the past 63 years, the volume of cases entering Continue reading

Content Enhancements coming to ICLR Online this winter

Three major developments are coming to ICLR Online this winter desiged to dramatically increase the breadth of ICLR’s case law coverage. It has been a busy year for ICLR’s development team. During the summer, we released a package of significant enhancements to ICLR Online designed to broaden the range of available content and to deliver Continue reading

The ICLR Anniversary Edition is now for sale

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) was founded in 1865, by the Inns of Court and the Law Society, on the recommendation of a committee of lawyers who were fed up at the erratic and disorganised way in which critical precedents were then being recorded. From the start it has Continue reading

Berlin 2015: ICLR at the IALL

Last month the ICLR team attended the International Association of Law Libraries’ 34th Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information, which took place at Berlin State Library. The subjects covered in the sessions were fairly broad, as suggested by the official title of the course Within and in Between: German Legal Tradition in Times of Continue reading