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Professional Support—Professional Rapport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Claire Booth
Claire Booth
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This article is an updated version of the author's article “The Missing Link? The Role of the Professional Support Lawyer” (Law Librarian, Volume 29(1), 3–6.) Claire Booth is a professional support lawyer in the Environmental Law Group at Allen & Overy.
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On reflection, if it were not for BIALL I might well not be writing this. I am not referring to John's invitation to give a presentation in Cork but to the fact that BIALL played a pivotal role in my becoming a professional support lawyer. In 1997, Kate Hodgson and I were awarded BIALL bursaries to go to the AALL Conference in Baltimore; while we were there, Kate happened to tell me about the PSLs at her firm, Cameron McKenna, and the work they did. The more she told me, the more I thought, like the character Mike in the musical A Chorus Line, ‘I can do that, I can do that!’ I came home from Baltimore having gained not only a good friend but also the idea of changing my career in a way that would combine my legal training and my law library and publishing experience.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Autumn 2001 , pp. 3 - 9
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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References

1 Referred to in Understanding the Legal Grid, Richard Susskind, Legal Week, 25 January 2001, 16.Google Scholar

2 “Telling it like it is: a personal take on information”, Meredith Gibson. The author will expand upon her theme in the Winter issue of Legal Information Management.Google Scholar

3 Thomas, Andrew, “Corridor chatter—information and knowledge management on a shoestring?”, Computers & Law, 12(1), 4–7.Google Scholar