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

