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Announcing AALL Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section's Luncheon Speaker:
Ross Guberman on "How to Help Lawyers Who Don't Even Know They Need You"

During this lunchtime presentation, Professor Ross Guberman, one of the nation's leading legal-writing-and-research trainers, will share examples and thoughts on why so many young attorneys struggle with writing, even at the nation's most prestigious firms and agencies. He will also offer ideas on how law librarians can play a key role in helping these attorneys solve their most pressing writing problems.

Our speaker is a lawyer, a law professor and a journalist. Professor Guberman is the President of Legal Writing Pro LLC and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington Law School. He conducts writing and communication seminars at the many of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country and for dozens of state and federal agencies and bar associations. He also teaches courses in legal drafting at GW.

For more information on LegalWritingPro and Ross's background see http://www.LegalWritingPro.com and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ross-guberman/5/391/130.

To obtain a ticket to this event, select the PLL-SIS luncheon when you register for the 102nd American Association of Law Libraries AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. The luncheon is scheduled for Sunday, July 26, 2009 at the Renaissance-Grand Ballroom North/Central. This event is sponsored by LexisNexis.

Many thanks to PLL members Ellen Callinan and Jennifer Stephens for assisting in the selection of our speaker.

The PLL Election

Congratulations to the newly elected members of the 2009-2010 PLL Board.

Vice Chair/Chair Elect 2008-2009
Kate Martin

Vice Chair/Chair Elect 2009-2010
Jane Baugh

Treasurer 2009-2011
Margarita Bull

At Large Board Member 2009-2011
Joan Jarosek

Thanks to all who ran and thank you all for voting!

Grant Application Now Available

Do you need help getting to the AALL Annual Meeting this summer? The PLL Grants Committee will award travel grants to 5 PLL members to cover their travel expenses booked through the AALL travel office. The application is available on the PLL website here in Word and in PDF. Please send your completed form to me at the e-mail or snail mail address below, by April 16; the committee will make its decisions no later than Monday, April 27. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Washington!

At Least 22 Innovative Reasons Why All PLLers Need to go to AALL in DC this July

In these challenging times, justifying your attendance at AALL to the "power's that be" is even harder. We know that library meeting and travel are a tiny percent of the budget and that ROI for the work we do at AALL and what we learn there is tremendous. Here is some evidence to prove the point - at least 22 programs of value to PLL members (and I am sure you can find more!)

Take a look at Donna Fisher's great article "Will You Be in New Orleans? How to Obtain Funding for the AALL Conference" in 18 #3 PLL Perspectives ( Spring 2007) http://www.aallnet.org/sis/pllsis/newslett/spring07.asp for a great meeting request memo template. You can also get some helpful tips from Lucy Curci-Gonzalez and Christine Graesser, both recent PLL Chairs, who wrote an article in the February 2006 issue of AALL Spectrum about how to write a memo justifying attendance at the annual meeting. They also have a sample memo. Go to: http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0502/pub_sp0502_Why.pdf to see the article, "Why I Need to Go to the AALL Annual Meeting this Year."

More information on the 102nd AALL meeting, programs and fees see all the information on the AALL website http://www.aallnet.org/events/.

EVENT	DATE/TIME
PLL-SIS Business Meeting and Breakfast (sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business)	Sunday, July 26, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
PLL-SIS Luncheon (sponsored by LexisNexis)	Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
A4: The Changing World of Information Access at the USPTO	Sunday, July 26, 2009 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
PLL-SIS Program: Nuts & Bolts of Competitive Intelligence: CI in the Small Firm Environment	Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
PLL-SIS Program: Nuts & Bolts of Competitive Intelligence: CI in the Small Firm Environment	Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
PLL-SIS Executive Board Meeting	Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
PLL-SIS Intellectual Property Group Program: Patent Information Vendors Panel Discussion	Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
PLL-SIS Intellectual Property Group Program: Patent Information Vendors Panel Discussion	Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
PLL-SIS Intellectual Property Group Reception	Sunday, July 26, 2009 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
PLL-SIS Education Committee Annual Business Meeting	Monday, July 27, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
PLL-SIS One Person Library (Solo) Group Business Meeting	Monday, July 27, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
D2: Nuts and Bolts of Competitive Intelligence: Librarians and Marketing Side by Side	Monday, July 27, 2009 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
E3: "Eenie, Meenie, Minie , Mo . . . County, Court, Academic, Private--Should I Stay or Should I Go?"	Monday, July 27, 2009 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
ALL-SIS Program: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Reaching Out to Practicing Attorneys and Law Firm Librarians to Improve Legal Research Instruction	Monday, July 27, 2009 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
F5: Taming Information Overload: Addressing Law Firm Current Awareness Needs	Monday, July 27, 2009 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
PLL-SIS Independent Group Business Meeting	Monday, July 27, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
PLL-SIS Intellectual Property Group Business Meeting and Lunch (by Invitation)	Monday, July 27, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
G5: What's in a Name? Trademark Searching, Services, and Domain Names	Monday, July 27, 2009 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
PLL-SIS Committee Fair	Monday, July 27, 2009 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
PLL-SIS Records/Conflicts Management Group Business Meeting	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
PLL-SIS Technical Services Group Program Meeting	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
H2: Web 2.0: Driving Innovation in the Law Firm Library	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
I3: Next-Gen Integrated Library System Features Relevant to the Private Law Firm Library	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
PLL-SIS Competitive Intelligence Business Meeting	Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM