Legal information professionals work across a broad range of organisations. The term includes law librarians, knowledge managers and any other managers of legal information. They may work in large legal firms, government and academic libraries, industry, professional bodies or the Inns of Court.
Staff in this area of the profession need an excellent understanding of current legal material.
Legal information professionals:
- undertake legal research across a wide range of legal sources
- manage hard copy and electronic resources
- train library users in the exploitation of legal materials
- manage projects
Like their colleagues in other sectors legal information professionals need good ICT skills to effectively interrogate electronic databases. Deadlines for enquiries can be short so legal information professionals must be able to rise to the challenge of delivering accurate information as quickly as possible.
Salary
Recommended salaries can be found in the Law salary guide.
Further Information
Law Librarian job description
Academic law librarian job description