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Jean P. O’Grady, 1951 –

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION: 2024

Honoring the 2024 Award Recipients

SIGNIFICANT Ƶ SERVICE

  • Chair, Private Law Librarians & Information Professionals SIS, 2013–2014
  • Member, Council of SIS Chairs, 2012–2014
  • Team Leader, Annual Meeting Program Committee, 2015–2016
  • Member, Committee and Jury Chairs, 2016–2017
  • Member, Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee, 2017–2017
  • Executive Board Member, 2017–2020
  • Member, State of the Profession Special Committee, 2020–2021
  • Member, AI and Legal Information Special Committee, 2023–2024

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Fastcase 50 Top Legal Innovators, 2011
  • Dewey B Strategic named to ABA Magazine Blawg 100, 2012–2016
  • PLLIP Advocate of the Year, 2015
  • ABA Journal Blawg 100 Hall of Fame, 2016
  • Ƶ President’s Award, 2016
  • PLLIP Best Blogger/Writer of the Year, 2017
  • PLLIP Distinguished Librarian, 2020
  • Ƶ Hall of Fame Inductee, 2024

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY THE INDUCTEE

  • , 2011–present
  • – Monthly column on hot topics in legal publishing and technology
  • “” Above the Law, May 6, 2021
  • Legal Executive Institute, July 15, 2019.
  • Ƶ Spectrum, Vol. 22, No. 2 (November/December 2017).
  • Co-Editor with Holly Riccio and Greg Lambert,  “Defining ROI: Law Library Best Practices,” Ƶ Digital White Paper,2016.
  • “,” Ƶ Spectrum,  Vol. 21, No. 1 (September/October 2016).
  • “Thinking Outside the Stacks: New Career Paths for Information Professionals,” Practice Innovations, July 2016.
  • “,” Ƶ Spectrum, 20, No. 1 (September/October 2015).
  • Law360, January 5, 2015.
  • “Law Firm Space Planning as a Knowledge Management Strategy,” Practice Innovations,July 2014.
  • “The Myth and the Madness of Cost-Effective Legal Research,Law Library Lights, Fall 2012.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PODCASTS, AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS ABOUT THE INDUCTEE

  • On Firmer Ground, February 19, 2021.
  • , podcast, March 31, 2021.
  • September 25, 2020.
  • November 18, 2020.
  • March 15, 2020.
  • , ALM Law Technology News, September 25, 2013.
  • Jean O’Grady—Librarian and Legal Rebel, On Firmer Ground, September 23, 2016
  • Jean O’Grady Leads Lawyers Through the Legal Maze, 2016
  • Jean O’Grady, Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Patrick Kehoe, February 10, 2016, Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • Director of Legal Information Services, Shea & Gould 1984–1991
  • Legal Information Consultant, Jean P. O’Grady and Associates, 1991–1992
  • Associate Director, Pace University School of Law Library, 1992–1993
  • Senior Director of Research Service and Libraries, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering Hale, and Dorr, 1993–2007
  • Senior Director of Research and Knowledge Services, DLA Piper, 2007–2021
  • Director of Research and Knowledge, Venable 2021–2024

EDUCATION

  • BA, History, Fordham University, 1972
  • MLS, St. John’s University, 1980
  • JD, Fordham University School of Law, 1986

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS OUTSIDE Ƶ

  • New York Law Institute, Board of Directors 2013–2020
  • ABA, Law Practice Management, Knowledge Strategy Committee, 2015–2016
  • Thomson Reuters Executive Librarian Advisory Board, 2008–2015
  • Member, Editorial Board Practice Innovations Newsletter, 2010–2020
  • Wolters Kluwer Insight Leaders Council 2012–2024
  • Law Library Association of Greater New York, President 1990–1991