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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES ELECTS NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER

Washington, DC-Based Board Member’s Term Will Begin in July 2017

CHICAGO, November 11, 2016—The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) membership has elected

Jean P. O'Grady, senior director of information, research, and knowledge services at DLA Piper in Washington, DC, to

serve as a member of its Executive Board from July 2017 to July 2020.

O'Grady is currently vice chair of AALL’s Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee and a member of the AALL

Spectrum Editorial Board. She also served as an editor on the Defining ROI: Law Library Best Practices digital white

paper that was published earlier this month. She has previously served as Private Law Librarians & Information

Professionals Special Interest Section (PLLIP-SIS) chair and vice chair, Council of Chapter Presidents chair, Private

Law Librarians Summit co-chair, and Annual Meeting Program Committee team leader.

“I’m pleased to have been chosen as a member of AALL’s Executive Board,” O'Grady said. “With the continued

pressure to demonstrate the value legal information professionals provide to the law firms, educational institutions,

and other organizations they support, I feel contributing to AALL’s efforts to demonstrate the strategic value of

information professionals to the legal community is more important than ever.”

O'Grady received her master of library science from St. John’s University, where she was a member of the Beta Phi

Mu honor society; a juris doctor from the Fordham University School of Law in New York City, where she received an

American Jurisprudence Award; and a bachelor of arts from Fordham University, also in New York.

Before working at DLA Piper, O'Grady was senior director of research service and libraries at the Wilmer Cutler

Pickering Hale and Dorr law firm; associate director and research librarian at the Pace University School of Law

Library in White Plains, New York; legal information consultant at Jean P. O’Grady and Associates; director of legal

information services at the New York-based Shea & Gould law firm; and assistant director at the Proskauer Rose

Goetz and Mendelsohn law firm. She also was an adjunct professor at both the Palmer School of Library and

Information Science in Greenvale, New York, and St. John’s University’s Graduate Division of Library and

Information Science.

O’Grady is a member of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC, a College of Law Practice Management fellow,

and a member of the New York Law Institute’s board of directors. She is a prior board member and president of the

Law Library Association of Greater New York and American Bar Association Law Practice Management Committee

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Knowledge Strategy Subgroup assistant chair. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Practice

Innovations, published by Thomson Reuters.

Over the years, O’Grady has a received significant recognition for her work, including AALL’s Presidential Certificate

of Appreciation in 2016, the PLLIP-SIS Advocate of the Year Award in 2015, Fastcase’s Fast 50 Award for Innovation

in 2011, and AALL’s Excellence in Marketing Award in 1999. Her popular Dewey B Strategic blog was named to the

ABA Blawg 100 list in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, and the ABA named it the best legal research and writing blog in

2013.

In addition to selecting O’Grady as a new board member, AALL’s membership elected a new vice president/president-

elect—Femi Cadmus, Edward Cornell law librarian, associate dean for library services, and professor of practice at

Cornell University Law Library in Ithaca, New York. Her term will last from July 2017 to July 2018.

Luis Acosta, chief, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Division II, Global Legal Research Center, Law

Library of Congress in Washington, DC, was elected secretary, and Beth Adelman, director, Charles B. Sears Law

Library, vice dean for legal information services, University at Buffalo School of Law, and associate university

librarian for legal information services, University at Buffalo Libraries, in Buffalo, New York, was also chosen as an

Executive Board member. Acosta and Adelman will serve terms from July 2017 to July 2020.

For more information on AALL leadership, please visit bit.ly/AALLExecutiveBoard.

About AALL

The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is the only national association dedicated to the legal information profession and

its professionals. Founded in 1906 on the belief that people—lawyers, judges, students, and the public—need timely access to

relevant legal information to make sound legal arguments and wise legal decisions, its nearly 4,500 members are problem solvers of

the highest order. AALL fosters the profession by offering its members knowledge, leadership, and community that make the whole

legal system stronger. For more information, visit www.aallnet.org.

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