ALLA (WA) News Blog

Natalie McDonald has commenced at Ashurst as a Research Librarian.  This is part time (Monday – Wednesday) replacing Lei Lin who is on maternity leave.  Natalie is also working part time at Williams& Hughes (Thurs & Friday) as a Librarian. Gisella Warman has commenced at Tottle Partners as an Information Resources Manager replacing Kirsty McPhee.  Gisella is working part time, Monday and Wednesday. Kirsty McPhee will be leaving Tottle Partners to take a position with Hancock Prospecting as an Assistant Information Manager.  Kirsty will commence her new role on November 26.   Kirsty will be staying on the ALLA Board as her role is a combination of litigation support and information management.  Kirsty can be contacted via LinkedIn . Congratulations to everyone!

Earlier this year the online legal database Justis and case citator JustCite combined to form the new platform JustisOne . The JustisOne case citator cross-references case law with UK legislation and continues JustCite's excellent feature of providing access to reported versions of cases via direct links from citations to the source of the report (where they are available) from publishers as diverse as Westlaw, LexisNexis, and ICLR. A free-to-ALLA (WA) members web-based training sessio n will be held at 3pm Perth time Tuesday the 27th of November . Participants need a reliable internet connection, a PC with audio output (ie: speakers or headphones). The session will last approximately 45 minutes. For further information and to sign up to take part, please email Stephen Griffiths by 4pm Thursday the 22nd of November.