The Practising Law Librarian features interviews with law librarian professionals from an array of backgrounds and organizations. Join host Karen Oesterle, of PLI’s Legal Information Services team, to learn about trends, resources, and fresh ideas from peers in your profession.
Errol Adams discusses his career path from government legal work to law librarianship, describing roles at the Department of Corrections, New York City Civil Courts, academia, and now Cooley LLP, where he manages legal resources, vendor relationships, and database strategy. He reflects on how each setting shaped his expertise and explains why the move from academia to a law firm brought new challenges and intellectual variety.
A major theme of the interview is leadership and advocacy. Errol highlights his work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the law library profession, including helping establish the Black Law Librarians SIS and founding DEI initiatives within professional organizations. He also shares insights on mentoring, navigating the profession as a Black and Indo-Guyanese gay man, and creating research tools and collections that improved access to legal information for students, faculty, and researchers.
1 Oct 2026
Why Librarians Matter More Than Ever
Cas Laskowski, Head of Research, Data, and Instruction at the University of Arizona’s law library, discusses how law librarianship is evolving from traditional legal research support into a more interdisciplinary, forward-facing role shaped by data, technology, and AI. Cas describes a career path from geospatial work and law school to librarianship, driven by a love of research, writing, and helping people access meaningful information.
The conversation highlights Cas’s work in empirical research, innovation labs, AI instruction, and leadership within the law library community. A central theme is empowerment—using information, data, and thoughtful guidance to expand access to justice and help students, scholars, and communities navigate complex systems. Cas also emphasizes the need for law librarians to act as curators and critical guides in an AI-saturated information landscape, and encourages colleagues to build strong professional networks rather than trying to master everything alone.
26 Aug 2026
Inside Legal Tech with Sarah Glassmeyer
Sarah Glassmeyer, Director of Data Curation at Legal Tech Hub, traces her path from academic law librarian to legal tech, sparked by the 2008 downturn and the free law movement, then through roles at CALI (including open casebooks and document-automation expert systems), a Harvard fellowship focused on free law, the ABA Center for Innovation, and RainCourt before joining Legal Tech Hub. She explains Legal Tech Hub’s advisory, content, and product-directory work, including maintaining a catalog of 3,000+ legal tech tools and tracking attributes such as deployment and AI use. She discusses how librarian skills—taxonomy, cataloging, vendor interviewing, and research—translate directly to legal tech and urges firms and vendors to involve librarians in tech selection and adoption. She also weighs GenAI’s benefits in lowering barriers against risks like hallucinated legal content, cost, infrastructure demands, and unequal access to advanced tools.
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