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About Simon Chester

Simon Chester is Counsel, Conflicts and Regulatory Matters at Gowlings in Toronto. His career spans law teaching, a decade in government, and thirty years on Bay Street. His involvement with legal information goes back to the Seventies when he taught legal research at Osgoode Hall and served on CLIC's board - that was the Canadian Law Information Council. He writes widely on legal, technology, ethical and professional issues.

Posts by Simon Chester

Treaties on the Web

Law Books and Development

We Made the Top Twenty

Copyright, the Web and Access

The Personal Library and Scholarship

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Getting Spoiled by Google

Law Books and Development

The History of Citations and Indexes

Empowering the End User

A Dissent on Open Access

Reality Check

What Would Microsoft Research Make of Law

Legal Research Tools That Fit You Like a Glove

More on the Future of Google

Digital Law Study Guides

An Internet of Things

Dov Seidman’s Legal Research Machine

More on Outsourcing to India

The Personal Library

Soquij for the Chopper?

Google Searches Used in Evidence

Next Generation Libraries

Educaloi Launches in English

A Digital Archive of Legal History?

Happy Birthday

Why Should Lawyers Care About Blogs

The Reference Libraries of Toronto

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