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Teaching
Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL) 2006
Sponsored by the LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group
A Professional Development
Opportunity for Librarians Working in a Private Law Firm or
Corporate Legal Department
MISSION &
OBJECTIVES
"Prepare for Training
Challenges of the 21st Century"
The fifth TRIPLL Conference will include presentations,
structured breakout sessions, demonstrations, and ample opportunity
for networking with the faculty, council and other attendees.
Enrollment is limited to 30 participants to maximize the learning
and sharing of information.
Participants will learn how to:
- Enhance training techniques
- Build confidence in presentation
skills
- Maximize expanding technology
- Integrate marketing strategies
LOCATION, DATES,
COSTS AND SELECTION CRITERIA
Location/Dates:
Westin Stonebriar Resort in Dallas, TX
2:00 PM on Friday, April 21, 2006 through
Noon on Sunday, April 23, 2006
Participants are expected to attend
all sessions and all meals.
Costs:
There is no registration fee to attend the
TRIPLL Conference. LexisNexis will cover all conference materials, meals, lodging, and transportation to and from the airport in Dallas. Attendees are responsible for airfare to and from the conference and any personal incidental charges.
Selection Criteria:
The TRIPLL conference is open to all law librarians working in a
private law firm or a corporate legal department. In making their decisions, the Selection Committee will strive for diversity in such areas as geographical distribution, firm size, and
an interest in teaching legal research, even if a program is not yet
implemented.
Past participants are invited to
apply, and a small number may be accepted. Enrollment is
limited to 30 participants to maximize the learning and sharing of
information.
AGENDA
Friday, April 21
Current & Future Trends in the
Legal Marketplace
Assessing Your Firm's Culture
Learning Styles & Generational Definitions
Saturday, April 22
Generational Teaching
12-Step Program for Presentation Phobes
Hitchhikers Guide to the (Technology) Universe
Marketing: From Librarian Leprechauns to...
Sunday, April 23
Evaluations - Why Are They
Important?
Effectiveness Metrics
FACULTY
Faculty for the TRIPLL 2006 Conference will include the 2006
Advisory Council, plus someone yet to be announced.
Advisory Council:
Jenny Kanji
-- LexisNexis
Brenna Louzin -- Heller Ehrman LLP
Gayle Lynn-Nelson -- LexisNexis
Kathleen Moringiello -- Skadden Arps Slate
Meagher & Flom LLP
Abigail
Ross -- Keller & Heckman LLP
Mariann Sears
-- Thompson & Knight LLP
Brenna Louzin
Like most Washingtonians, Brenna is a
transplant, having been raised in the small town of Pittsfield,
Massachusetts in lovely Berkshire County. Before leaving the East
coast, she received her BA in English from the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst, MA (1968) and her MLS from Drexel
University in Philadelphia in 1973.
Like many librarians, Brenna has held professional and technical
jobs in many venues. Her first professional job was as a bookmobile
librarian at the Berkshire Athenaeum in her hometown. She not only
selected the books and worked with the patrons, but also drove the
truck! After a little over a year as the City Bookmobile Librarian,
she sought her fortune out West.
Once in the Puget Sound area,
Brenna worked at the K.K. Sherwood Library at Harborview Medical
Center, the Business Administration Library at the University of
Washington, then spent seven years as librarian at the Battelle
Seattle Research Center. In the fall of 1984, she entered the world
of law librarianship. She has held law library positions with (now
defunct) Sax & MacIver, briefly at Karr Tuttle, Preston Gates &
Ellis, and Carney Badley.
In August of 1990, Brenna became the first professional librarian
for the Seattle office of Heller Ehrman LLP., a San Francisco-based
law firm. As the librarian for Heller Ehrman, she is responsible for
managing library services for the Seattle office as well as the
Anchorage (Alaska) office. In her current position, Brenna is
responsible for reference, budget, policy, collection development
and acquisitions, and also serves as Project Manager for the firm's
SydneyPlus library software application. She has one assistant
librarian (reference) and two library technicians on her staff.
Brenna is a long-time member of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the
Special Libraries Association, WESTPAC, and has been a part of the
Law Librarians of Puget Sound since its’ inception in 1990. She has
held the posts of Secretary and President of LLOPS and served on
several special committees including the Internet SIG, an ad hoc
LLOPS group doing outreach with the King County Bar Association’s
Neighborhood Legal Clinics, the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
Committee, Grants Committee and the Professional Development
Committee. In private life, she has served on the board and several
committees at Temple Beth Am, a reform Jewish congregation in
Seattle.
Brenna's personal interests include hiking, gardening, cross-country
skiing, cooking and baking, knitting, reading, poetry, drawing and
laughter.
Kathleen Moringiello
Kathleen Moringiello has spent most of
her law library career with the main office of the international law
firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City.
For the past six years, Kathleen has been head of reference
services. Prior to joining Skadden, she was the head of the legal
staff library at General Motors Corporation in New York City.
Kathleen attended TRIPLL in 1995 and AMPLL in 2005. She previously
served on the TRIPLL Council in 2000.
After receiving her B.A. from St. Joseph's College, Kathleen earned
a masters degree from Pratt Institute. She is a member of the Law
Library Association of Greater New York, the American Association of
Law Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association.
Abigail Ross
Abigail F. Ellsworth Ross is the Informational Resources Manager with Keller and Heckman LLP in Washington, DC. She received
her MLS from the University of Maryland in 2000 and her BSLA in
German and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1998. But don’t
let those dates fool you – she’s been working in libraries since she
was 11!
Abigail has written for several publications, including the Legal Division Quarterly and Law Library Lights. She is also a reviewer for the American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Quarterly. She has spoken at several conferences including the SLA annual conference in 2004 and 2005 on Basic Legal Research for the Non-Law Librarian, the second time for a four-hour CE course, and the AALL annual conference in 2005 on marketing for law firm libraries. She will be speaking again at both in 2006.
Abigail is particularly interested in promoting the use of library and research materials through teaching and marketing, and won the 2001 AALL/West Marketing Award for Best Newsletter. She is actively involved in Library training – planning programs for the paralegals, secretaries, associates and incoming employees. She believes very strongly in the benefits of association membership, the importance of networking within the Library community and chocolate.
In her spare time, Abigail enjoys reading, scrapbooking and
traveling. She can be reached at ross@khlaw.com.
Mariann Sears Mariann
received her MLS in 1997 from the University of North Texas School
of Library and Information Sciences. She attended UNT’s distance
learning program in Houston for her entire tenure at UNT.
After graduating, Mariann began her
law library career as the only librarian for Brown, Parker & Leahy,
LLP, a 70-lawyer firm in Houston. When BP&L merged with Thompson &
Knight LLP in 1999, she became the Library Supervisor for the
Houston office of Thompson & Knight.
In 2003, Mariann was promoted to
Library Manager for the law offices of Thompson & Knight LLP.
Although Thompson & Knight is headquartered in Dallas, Mariann
continues to manage the firm’s libraries from the Houston office.
More than 425 attorneys world-wide call Thompson & Knight their
professional home. Thompson & Knight’s other offices include those
in Fort Worth, Austin, New York, Mexico City, Monterrey, Mexico, Rio
de Janeiro, London, Paris, and Algiers.
Before beginning her career in law librarianship, Mariann practiced
law for 15 years. Nearly 10 of those years were spent with Andrews &
Kurth in Houston in the appellate section. She also served as
Briefing Attorney to Justice Ross A. Sears of the 14th Court of
Appeals of Texas. After leaving the court, Mariann and the judge she
served began dating and eventually married. They have been married
for 19 years.
Mariann’s legal education began at the University of Houston Law
Center in 1980. She graduated in 1983, passed the Texas Bar Exam,
and became a member of the State Bar of Texas. She continues to
maintain her law license despite her career change.
Mariann is a member of AALL, SLA-Legal Division, SWALL, HALL, the
State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, and the Texas Bar
Foundation. She is co-author of Post-Trial Preservation of Error
in State Court, presented in 1994 at the Fourth Annual
Conference on Techniques for Handling Civil Appeals in State and
Federal Court, and Accelerated Appeals, presented in 1997 at
the State Bar of Texas seminar on the 1997 Texas Rules of Civil
Procedure. She has recently written a column entitled You’ve Been
Promoted! Now What? for the May-June, 2005 issue of Law
Librarians in the New Millennium.
Mariann had the privilege of attending the TRIPLL conference in
2004.
Whenever she can, Mariann hikes in the mountains around beautiful
Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado, with her husband, daughter (Jessica),
and dog (Scout). She is an avid Houston Astros fan.
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