Those with lawyers' papers in their custody may be interested to know
that the oft-cited March 1994 report by the Ad Hoc Committee on
Access to Lawyers' Files of the Organization of American Historians,
entitled "Historians and Access to the Files of Lawyers", is now
available on the web at...
It is being provided as a public service by H-LAW, the H-Net listserv
sponsored by the American Society for Legal History.
Two recent articles provide the most thorough reviews yet of the
legal and ethical issues surrounding lawyers' papers in archives,
from U.S. and British perspectives...
Akiba J. Covitz, "Providing Access to Lawyers' Papers: The
Perils ... and the Rewards," LEGAL REFERENCE SERVICES
QUARTERLY 20:1/2 (2001), 151-179.
Victor Tunkel, "Lawyer-Client Files: A Historical Source,
But Can We See Them?", LEGAL REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY
20:1/2 (2001), 181-189.
From the "Shameless Plug" Department, this issue of LRSQ is also
available as a monograph...
PUBLIC SERVICES ISSUES WITH RARE AND ARCHIVAL LAW
MATERIALS (Michael Widener, ed.; New York: Haworth
Press, 2001; ISBN 0-7890-1407 hardback; ISBN
0-7890-1408-4 softcover).
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MIKE WIDENER, Head of Special Collections
Joseph D. Jamail Fellow in Law Librarianship
Tarlton Law Library, School of Law
The University of Texas at Austin
727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705-3224
Phone: 512/471-7263; fax: 512/471-0243
E-mail: mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu