Texas Y’ALL Legal Institute
November 15, 2024
Registration is now open for the Texas Y’ALL Legal Institute!
On Friday, November 15, 2024, from Noon-4 pm CST, the Houston Association of Law Librarians (HALL) and Dallas Association of Law Libraries (DALL) will be co-hosting a FREE virtual half-day legal information institute titled Texas Y’ALL Legal Institute. Open to all Texas-based law librarians and other legal information professionals, as well as those interested in the law and law librarianship from a Texas perspective.
Besides offering an online session, we will also be offering three satellite locations in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Those registering for those sites will include lunch. However, onsite space is limited, so please register ASAP!
Registration is open until EOD Friday, Oct. 25th, 2024.
Registration Link:
Here’s a sneak peek:
- Keynote Speaker: Justice Charles Spain
- Moderator: Andre Davison, Harris County Law Library
- Learn about the new Business Courts with guest speaker Judge Grant Dorfman (11th Division, Harris County)
- Need to know about the Texas Stock Exchange coming in 2025? Professor Steven Pedigo, University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs and an expert in economic urban development, weighs in on how this will affect Texas and other stock exchanges
- Moderator: Terri Lawrence, Winstead PC
- Texas data and resources-Hear about what’s new, including speakers Writer Brooks Igo and Founder Mark Curriden from the Texas Lawbook, and Melanie Harshman from the Texas Legislative Reference Library
- Rounding up the afternoon will be a panel discussion on what is happening in our court, government, private law firms, and academic law libraries and legal information entities
The full agenda will be published in the next few weeks, and sponsorship announcements coming soon!
Organizing Committee:
- Ashley Arrington (Texas Tech)
- David Baker (Kirkland & Ellis)
- Barbara Fullerton (Dentons)
- Lynn Murray (Weil, Gotshal & Manges)
- Amy Small (Texas State Law Library)
- Michele Woods (Polsinelli)
For more information, please contact David at or Barbara at .
October 2024 DALL Meeting
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 23rd
Time: Noon
Where: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Author Sue Bradford Edwards
We will be introducing Sue Bradford Edwards, author and writing instructor. She writes nonfiction for children on topics she thoroughly researches such as encroachment of advertisement, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, cultural issues, the dark web, and many others. For more information, please visit her blog at https://suebe.wordpress.com/18120-2/. The Zoom link will be available later in October.
The 2024 AALL Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, July 20 – 23, 2024.
Additional information about the 2024 AALL annual meeting: https://www.aallnet.org/conference/
DALL is offering two registration grants for the 2024 AALL Annual Meeting Conference.
- The Chapter Registration Grant offers one registration to a newer member of AALL (less than 3 years membership), who is also a member of DALL. This recipient must not yet be registered for the Annual Meeting & Conference.
- DALL is offering one $800 grant to help defray the cost of registration which is $795 until May 3, 2024, and $895 after this date.
To apply for these grants the following conditions must be met:
Must be a member of DALL
If not already an officer, must commit to serve for one year on a DALL committee (committee service is generally 1 – 2 hours per month).
Must not have received a grant from DALL in the past two years
Must submit a written summary within 60 days of the meeting for publication in the DALL Newsletter or blog.
Submit a timely and complete application.
DALL Grant to Support 2024 AALL Registration
Please complete and return the application to Charlotte Thomas by email: .
Submission deadline: April 19, 2024 and recipients will be notified by April 26, 2024.
Subject Compilation of State Laws
Meet Meg Butler, Editor of the Subject Compilations of State Laws database on HeinOnline.
For four decades Cheryl Nyberg, former law librarian, skillfully edited this award-winning product, recently passing the torch to Meg.
Meg will discuss her law library experience and background, Nyberg’s mentoring, and her new role at HeinOnline. She will also give a short tour of the database.
“This database has revolutionized historical state subject searching as the most comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, looseleaf services, court opinions, and the Internet sites that compare state laws across 3500+ subjects. It offers users quick access to over 28,000 bibliographic records, many with extensive annotations. Notably, the annotations link to more than 14,000 articles and documents on HeinOnline, while others connect to case law or external websites. Additionally, users can access current and past volumes in the series and other related works linking to 800+ full-text documents within HeinOnline.”
https://libguides.heinonline.org/subject-compilations-of-state-laws
Bio
Margaret (Meg) Butler is Law Librarian Professor and Associate Director for Public Services at Georgia State University College of Law Library. She teaches both introductory and specialized legal research courses. An active member in the Association of American Law Libraries, her publications include annotated bibliographies on a variety of subjects. She has also worked in legal publishing for over 20 years.
Date: Wednesday, March 27th
Time: 12:00 pm Central Time – 1:00 pm Central Time
Place: Online via Zoom
Zoom information to be announced.
If you have any questions you would like to ask Meg, please send them to me by EOD Monday, March 18th.
Please join us at the Capital Grille for a Holiday Luncheon!
TUESDAY, DEC 5, 2023 | 12:00 PM
The Capital Grille
500 Crescent Court
Dallas, TX 75201
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, tickets are just $25 per person. The Capital Grille validates two hours of parking in the Crescent Court garage.
Twenty tickets are available. Please register by Wednesday Nov. 30. To view the menu and purchase tickets, please see below.
February Event: ChatGPT
Thursday, Feb. 23rd Noon-1 PM CST
Where: Online
Our speaker: Arthur Weiss of AWARE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthuraweiss/?locale=de_DE
Topic: ChatGPT
Arthur Weiss will discuss the potential benefits and applications of ChatGPT for librarians and attorneys. This new application has the potential to revolutionize the way research is done. Explore his posts about his experiments with ChatGPT:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthuraweiss/recent-activity/shares/?locale=fr_FR
AWARE was founded in 1995 by Weiss. Since 1995, the company has grown and has an international reputation within the Competitive & Marketing Intelligence community, and is recognised as global expert. He is also Lecturer in the Marketing Research/Competitive Intelligence at University of West London and DeMontfort University. He has a BSc in Biochemistry, a MBA, and a CIM (Chartered Marketer). Weiss is also an international speaker on Competitive Intelligence Issues and NLP Practitioner.
Registration is over.
NOTE: I know Arthur from AIIP, and he is a great researcher and speaker!—Barbara Fullerton
March 19, 2020 – Locke Lord, 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Program: When your law school moves and leaves the library behind. Lunch provided.