EMPLOYMENT TEAM
Introduction to Information & Knowledge Management
Start
Introduction to Information & Knowledge Management at Trowers
The I&KM team (also known as The Library!) at Trowers serves all the firm's legal departments including the Employment Team. Click through to learn more about what we do for the department and how to find what you need using the intranet site - "Janet".
Start!
Quick note on navigation...
The small forward arrow at the bottom-right of the page will quickly flash when you can move onto the next page. As you make your way further through the course, you will also be able to navigate back through the slides at any time using the back arrows at the top-right of each page. Click through each title card for the various sections using the green arrows (middle-right) that appear on these slides. The next slide is one example of this.
Intranet Home
You will find Employment under the Legal Services heading
Navigation tab - (headings with arrows have navigable sub-menus)
Search the whole intranet from this box
Firmwide announcements are posted here
Customise your favourite tools or intranet pages
Employment department home page
This page is designed as a knowledge-sharing hub for the Team, including sector news of interest, new and key documents and pieces of work; team news, contact information for colleagues; and client information.
You may wish to bookmark the Employment Team page now - click here!
This is the Department's home page
Automated client care letter
Billing system
Along the right-hand side of the Team's homepage, you will find quick links to useful tools and documents commonly used by Employment and Pensions
Further down you will find links to the Team's Knowledge pages and web links - more coming up on these!
More automated precedent documents via HighQ
Link to the DealFinder database
Employment knowledge pages
Another key intranet area for the Employment Team is the Knowledge collection
To get to the Employment and Pensions precedents and know-how collection, select the department from the list of tiles under "browse by practice area".
...Or scroll further down the page to access the search widget, from which you can search the department's entire document collection by name. You can filter this search by category and content type too if you wish. See the search in action in the video coming up...
From here, you can choose any category to browse it's precedents and know-how documents...
Employment training page
The Training page is an archive of internal and external presentations given on various Employment Law topics. You can browse the archive, which is displayed in order from most recent to oldest, or you can type a search term into the box for training on a specific topic of interest.
The page also shows upcoming training from across the firm and you can sign up to any session from here.
Weblinks to key resources
A handy collection of the Employment Team's key online resources, including textbooks, legal databases, forms and news sources, can be found on the
Weblinks page
Any of these links may be added as a favourite to appear on your Intranet homepage, as shown in the next section
Adding a favourite link
To add a favourite to your homescreen...
Click the star in the top right corner of the tile you wish to add
From the Janet homepage
It can take a few minutes for newly-added tiles to show on your intranet home page, so don't worry if you don't see them instantly! And if you no longer want a favourite, just click the star again on the Add Favourites page to remove it.
Current awareness
Each morning, the Library team goes through the press and tags stories relevant to the various departments. They are then collated into an email update and sent around to subscribers. The Employment update goes out Daily at midday and shows the biggest stories in this legal area for the week, helping you to stay up-to-date with what is going on in the sector and any regulatory changes or case outcomes that may be relevant.
You have already been added to the general alert but we can tailor this to you if you want to follow a particular case, company, piece of legislation, or indeed have this as a less frequent update – i.e. weekly. Just email Joel Levy or the Library team and we can easily sort this.
The Library catalogue
This is the library catalogue
Access via a quick link...
Or via the I&KM intranet page
Email Joel Levy or the Library team for help with the catalogue or any book requests
From this tab, search only for books available online - useful for when you're working from home or need something quickly.
Search the entire collection - including hard copy - from this tab
How can the Library help?
How can we help?
The Library peforms the following functions (and more) for the Employment team:
- Finding company information for companies in various jurisdictions - (we have access to various tools and databases to help us do this).
- Running press searches to check for adverse press or just to see what a client or potential client has been doing recently.
- Finding case law - and tracking cases for you as they move through the courts, providing updates when a development happens.
- Running training sessions on various platforms, including case law research on Lexis+ and Westlaw, how to find forms and precedents, navigating the knowledge collection and other topics.
- Uploading content to the intranet and keeping the Team's knowledge up-to-date.
- Managing the online and hard copy book collections, providing acccess to the key titles used by the Team.
Contact
Joel Levy - I am an Information Officer and the main Library contact for the Employment Team. I sit in the Exeter office but can help with queries from any office location. Things I can help you with include uploading documents to the intranet, finding company information, and getting you access to books and legal databases.
OR
library@trowers.com - This is the contact address for the whole library team. We are currently a team of six with five of us sitting in the London office. We run an enquiries service 8:30am - 6pm each weekday, with two of us monitoring this email address inbox.
Congratulations
You have completed the course!
I hope this introduction/refresher has familiarised you with the role that the Library Team (I&KM) plays for Employment and the wider firm. It might be a good idea at this time to have a browse of the key Intranet pages mentioned, and maybe to try adding a favourite quick link to your home page or running a search of the library catalogue. Please contact Joel Levy or the library@trowers.com for additional information or help with any of the areas mentioned in this course.
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Transcript
EMPLOYMENT TEAM
Introduction to Information & Knowledge Management
Start
Introduction to Information & Knowledge Management at Trowers
The I&KM team (also known as The Library!) at Trowers serves all the firm's legal departments including the Employment Team. Click through to learn more about what we do for the department and how to find what you need using the intranet site - "Janet".
Start!
Quick note on navigation...
The small forward arrow at the bottom-right of the page will quickly flash when you can move onto the next page. As you make your way further through the course, you will also be able to navigate back through the slides at any time using the back arrows at the top-right of each page. Click through each title card for the various sections using the green arrows (middle-right) that appear on these slides. The next slide is one example of this.
Intranet Home
You will find Employment under the Legal Services heading
Navigation tab - (headings with arrows have navigable sub-menus)
Search the whole intranet from this box
Firmwide announcements are posted here
Customise your favourite tools or intranet pages
Employment department home page
This page is designed as a knowledge-sharing hub for the Team, including sector news of interest, new and key documents and pieces of work; team news, contact information for colleagues; and client information.
You may wish to bookmark the Employment Team page now - click here!
This is the Department's home page
Automated client care letter
Billing system
Along the right-hand side of the Team's homepage, you will find quick links to useful tools and documents commonly used by Employment and Pensions
Further down you will find links to the Team's Knowledge pages and web links - more coming up on these!
More automated precedent documents via HighQ
Link to the DealFinder database
Employment knowledge pages
Another key intranet area for the Employment Team is the Knowledge collection
To get to the Employment and Pensions precedents and know-how collection, select the department from the list of tiles under "browse by practice area".
...Or scroll further down the page to access the search widget, from which you can search the department's entire document collection by name. You can filter this search by category and content type too if you wish. See the search in action in the video coming up...
From here, you can choose any category to browse it's precedents and know-how documents...
Employment training page
The Training page is an archive of internal and external presentations given on various Employment Law topics. You can browse the archive, which is displayed in order from most recent to oldest, or you can type a search term into the box for training on a specific topic of interest.
The page also shows upcoming training from across the firm and you can sign up to any session from here.
Weblinks to key resources
A handy collection of the Employment Team's key online resources, including textbooks, legal databases, forms and news sources, can be found on the
Weblinks page
Any of these links may be added as a favourite to appear on your Intranet homepage, as shown in the next section
Adding a favourite link
To add a favourite to your homescreen...
Click the star in the top right corner of the tile you wish to add
From the Janet homepage
It can take a few minutes for newly-added tiles to show on your intranet home page, so don't worry if you don't see them instantly! And if you no longer want a favourite, just click the star again on the Add Favourites page to remove it.
Current awareness
Each morning, the Library team goes through the press and tags stories relevant to the various departments. They are then collated into an email update and sent around to subscribers. The Employment update goes out Daily at midday and shows the biggest stories in this legal area for the week, helping you to stay up-to-date with what is going on in the sector and any regulatory changes or case outcomes that may be relevant.
You have already been added to the general alert but we can tailor this to you if you want to follow a particular case, company, piece of legislation, or indeed have this as a less frequent update – i.e. weekly. Just email Joel Levy or the Library team and we can easily sort this.
The Library catalogue
This is the library catalogue
Access via a quick link...
Or via the I&KM intranet page
Email Joel Levy or the Library team for help with the catalogue or any book requests
From this tab, search only for books available online - useful for when you're working from home or need something quickly.
Search the entire collection - including hard copy - from this tab
How can the Library help?
How can we help?
The Library peforms the following functions (and more) for the Employment team:
Contact
Joel Levy - I am an Information Officer and the main Library contact for the Employment Team. I sit in the Exeter office but can help with queries from any office location. Things I can help you with include uploading documents to the intranet, finding company information, and getting you access to books and legal databases.
OR
library@trowers.com - This is the contact address for the whole library team. We are currently a team of six with five of us sitting in the London office. We run an enquiries service 8:30am - 6pm each weekday, with two of us monitoring this email address inbox.
Congratulations
You have completed the course!
I hope this introduction/refresher has familiarised you with the role that the Library Team (I&KM) plays for Employment and the wider firm. It might be a good idea at this time to have a browse of the key Intranet pages mentioned, and maybe to try adding a favourite quick link to your home page or running a search of the library catalogue. Please contact Joel Levy or the library@trowers.com for additional information or help with any of the areas mentioned in this course.