¶ … Literacy & Its Influence on Business and Future Leaders
The objective of this study is to explain how information literacy influences scholarship, practice, and leadership in a specific profession or discipline. For the purpose of this study, the legal profession will be chosen.
Badke (2009) writes in the work entitled 'How We Failed the Net Generation' that the World Wide Web came upon most of us who encountered it in the early 90's as a novelty. WE all guessed it would be promising, but few of us had any idea what it would become in less than 3 decades." (p.47) Many of today's students are noted in the work of Badke to have "grown up with the web, so for them it is not a novelty. It's mainstream. It's embedded in their lives." (p.47) For those in the legal profession, the World Wide Web had made a huge difference in the way that they perform their work.
The Legal Profession
Historically and traditionally, those who are employed in the legal profession and who are required to perform legal research on case law prior to entering into the courtroom situations of trial have had to go to physical law libraries to conduct their research. Their research was only as up-to-date as was the material available in the physical law library. As well, filing motions, complaints, and other documents with the court historically and traditionally involved leaving the office and traveling to the county in which the case was active and...
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