JULIE GRAVES KRISHNASWAMI YALE LAW SCHOOL, LILLIAN GOLDMAN LAW LIBRARY [email protected] 203.432.7934 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library, New Haven, CT Associate Law Librarian for Research Instruction September 2017 – Present • Develops and implements Law Library policies, procedures, structure, and strategies for delivering instructional services and resources to the YLS community and beyond. • Oversees and supervises the operations of the Law Library’s Research Instruction program. • Provides direct supervision over Instructional Services Department Librarians and oversees the instruction offered by members of other Law Library Departments. • Plays a leading role, with Law Library and Law School Administration in planning research for- credit courses offered by the Law Library. • Oversees non-credit bearing instructional offerings, such as workshops and guest lectures. Supports and advises supervisors on issues relating to the Law Library instruction, including teaching responsibilities and strategic goals. • Chairs search committees for Instructional Services Librarians. • Through scholarly communication, promotes the Law Library teaching program within the Law School, University Library, and the profession of law librarianship and legal education. • Maintains an understanding of legal research and legal research pedagogy. • Teaches in the formalized legal research program, First Year research program, and other for credit courses (this includes compiling and posting materials, grading, meeting with students, and writing reference letters). • Creates and updates instructional materials and supervises librarian in the same. • Promote research instruction within Yale Law School by submitting regular memos to Faculty and Administrators. • Maintain a database of research instructional materials. Creates study guides, conducts workshops, and guest lectures. Engage in scholarship on legal research pedagogy. Head of Research Instruction & Lecturer in Legal Research January 2013 — August 2016 • Coordinate the instructional program for research, including for-credit classes and workshops. • Teach Advanced Legal Research courses (approximately 30-70 students each semester). Prepared lectures, drafted research assignment fact patterns, graded weekly assignments, and held office hours to provide student feedback. • Developed and taught with Professor Noah Messing, and taught written Advocacy and Legal Research course integrating research and writing skills (approximately 25 students each semester). Prepared lectures, drafted research assignment fact patterns, graded weekly assignments, and held office hours to provide student feedback. • Coordinate First Year Small Group Legal Research instruction, including assigning instructors, compiling materials for websites, developing lectures, and teaching multiple small groups. • Spearheaded the development, creation and coordination, with a team of Clinical Fellows, Law Librarians, and faculty of the Legal Writing Committee a six-week pilot course to teach legal research and writing. Taught same pilot course to group of seventeen students. • Coordinate and plan instructional workshops. • Coordinate and plan continuing educational opportunities and retreats for teaching librarians. • Develop and maintain online research guides and instructional materials. • Supervise Reference and Instructional Librarians, which includes advising on projects and completing annual evaluations. • Participate in collection development and purchasing of instructional materials, including students study aids and monographs. • Hire and supervise Student Research Assistants, which includes advising on projects and reviewing work. • Provide reference services in person, email, and instant message chat service. • Meet with students as requested for research meetings. • Assist Law Faculty with research through the Faculty Liaison Program. • License films and coordinate film showing for student groups and faculty members. Head of Reference Services & Lecturer in Legal Research December 2011— January 2013 • Responsible for overseeing Reference Services, including coordinating the reference desk schedule and devising and implementing strategies for strengthening reference services. • Guest lectured in the Law Library’s instructional program. Taught units in Advanced Legal Research on statutory and regulatory research. • Worked with Collection Development and Access Services colleagues, to weed and relocate the Reference Collection. • Assisted Law Faculty with research through the Faculty Liaison Program. • Drafted research guides and instructional literature. • Participated in Law Library collection development. • Provided reference services in person, email, and instant message chat service. Vermont Law School, Julien and Virginia Cornell Law Library, South Royalton, VT Lawyer Librarian & Adjunct Law Professor June 2010—December 2011 • Taught two sections (with approximately 50 students) of a credit-bearing Legal Research course in the Fall semester to first-year law students. Prepared lectures, drafted research assignment fact patterns, graded weekly assignments, and held office hours to provide student feedback. • Planned an advanced legal research course in regulatory research. • Managed the Library’s government documents programs, and supervised a library assistant and work-study student in processing and shelving government documents. • Evaluated electronic resources for inclusion in the Library’s collection. • Assisted faculty members with research through the Library’s Faculty Liaison Program and Faculty Research Assistant Program. • Served as a library liaison for twenty-five faculty members, including the Legal Writing Department. • Served as the Library’s liaison and contact with Westlaw and LexisNexis which includes distributing passwords to students, faculty, and staff, maintaining records of the same, and coordinating training sessions with the vendors’ representatives. • Managed a project to evaluate and streamline state legal materials. • Provided reference services in person, email, and instant message chat service. Graves Krishnaswami Updated 6.2017 2 City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, Law Library, Flushing, NY Reference Librarian & Faculty Services Coordinator, Associate Professor 2008—2010 • Taught credit-bearing Legal Research course integrating lawyering skills based on the CUNY School of Law curriculum in the Fall and Spring semesters to first-year law students. • Prepared lectures, drafted major research assignment fact patterns, and graded weekly assignments for student feedback. • Developed, managed, and organized the Faculty Research Services Program including fulfillment of faculty research requests and analysis of statistics. • Provided research assistance to law faculty as needed on a variety topics and managed law students serving as Library Research Assistants in working on faculty research requests. • Answered legal research questions from faculty, students, and the public from the reference desk during assigned reference hours and as needed. • Participated in Law School governance by serving on the Student Scholarship Committee and Curriculum Committee. CUNY School of Law, Law Library, Flushing, NY Reference Librarian, Adjunct Law Professor 2007—2008 • Provided research support to members of the faculty and law students. • Answered legal research questions from faculty, students, and the public from the reference desk. • Assisted students with legal research assignments. • Worked with the Director of the Law Library to develop the Faculty Research Services Support Program. • Worked with the Legal Research Instructors to revise substantive legal research materials for the first year Legal Research course. • Conducted legal research for members of the faculty, Director of the Law Library, and students as needed. LEGAL EXPERIENCE Lite DePalma Greenberg & Revas, LLC, Newark, NJ Associate, 2005—2007 • Represented clients in various stages of commercial, class action, and appellate litigation in state and federal courts. • Drafted and filed briefs, pleadings, pretrial memoranda, and discovery requests and responses. • Performed legal research as needed. • Conducted and managed online document review and assisted with depositions. • Managed and monitored contract attorneys in large-scale document review. Judge Susan L. Reisner, Appellate Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ Law Clerk, 2004—05 • Drafted pre-argument memoranda for Appellate Division Panel, edited and reviewed drafts of written opinions, processed applications for emergency appeals, performed other legal research as needed, attended oral arguments, and assisted with all other aspects of appellate practice. Graves Krishnaswami Updated 6.2017 3 Civil Rights Bureau, New York State Attorney General’s Office, New York, NY Legal Intern, Fall 2003 • Conducted legal research and drafted memoranda on issues related to discrimination prohibited by federal, state, and local laws. • Specific areas researched include health care discrimination and single-sex education. Magistrate Judge Robert Levy, United States District Court (EDNY), Brooklyn, NY Legal Intern/Law Clerk, Summer 2003 • Researched and wrote judicial memoranda, orders, and drafted decisions. • Assisted deputy law clerk with guilty pleas, grand jury selections, and case management. Economic Justice Project, Main Street Legal Services, CUNY School of Law, Flushing, NY Student Intern, 2003—04 • Represented