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I am now going to transfer you rapidly from the global information service to a locally targeted and focused legal information service designed to meet the particular needs of a small jurisdiction like Northern Ireland.SLS Legal Publications was established in 1980 as a unique and profoundly innovative experiment in Northern Ireland (N.I.). Its continued existence 20 years later is testament to the fact that it has not only become a success story but is now an integral part of the legal system in Northern Ireland. SLS Legal Publications is a legal publishing and training company based within the Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) and sponsored by the NICS, the Law Society of N.I. and the Bar Council of N.I. QUB's sponsorship takes the form of the provision of accommodation and accounting services. The purpose of SLS is to provide a legal information service in various ways to the Northern Ireland legal profession and the wider community and I will expand on those various ways later in this talk.

During the past decade, information technology developments have the dissemination and use of legal and legal-related In 1995, the American Association of Law Libraries, a organization with more than 5,000 members, convened the first "National Conference on Legal Information Issues" in conjunction with its eighty-eighth meeting. National Conference provided a forum for members of the legal and information communities to discuss the challenging problems and issues arising from the dynamic technological changes that have impacted the creation, dissemination and use of legal information. The National Conference assembled more than 2,500 librarians, law faculty and deans, judges court administrators, practicing attorneys and firm administrators, government officials, legal information producers, and leaders of information associations to help chart the course of the information revolution.

1. Valuing persons and communities in doing wellness for law well / Stephen Tang -- 2. Towards an integrated, whole-school approach to promoting law student wellbeing / Wendy Larcombe -- 3. The persistence of distress / Paula Baron -- 4. Law student lifestyle pressures / Alex Steel and Anna Huggins -- 5. The relationship between class participation and law students' learning, engagement and stress : do demographics matter? / Anna Huggins and Alex Steele -- 6. Vitality for life and law : fostering student resilience, empowerment and well-being at law school / Judith Marychurch -- 7. Resilience and wellbeing programs : the practical legal training experience / Judy Bourke and Maxine Evers -- 8. Resilient lawyers : maximizing well-being in legal education and practice / Colin James -- 9. Using peer assisted learning to develop resilient and resourceful learners / Penelope Watson -- 10. On being, not just thinking like, a lawyer : connections between uncertainty, ignorance and wellbeing / Tony Foley and Stephen Tang -- 11. Balance and context : law student well-being and lessons from positive psychology / James Duffy -- 12. Connecting law students to health and wellbeing / Molly Townes O'Brien -- 13. Contemplative practice in the law school : breaking barriers to learning and resilience / Prue Vines and Patricia Morgan -- 14. Harnessing the law curriculum to promote law student well-being, particularly in the first year of legal education / Rachael Field -- 15. Beyond the curriculum : the wellbeing of law students within their broader environment / Helen M. Stallman and James Duffy -- 16. Dealing with resistance to change by legal academics / Nick James.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Some Fundamental Issues -- PART I. CONCEPTUALIZATION AND EMPIRICAL STUDY -- 1. Family Violence Research: Some Basic and Applied Questions -- 2. Physical Violence in American Families: Incidence Rates, Causes, and Trends -- 3. Public-Health Conceptions of Family Abuse -- 4. Variations in Defining Family Mistreatment: A Community Survey -- 5. Criminal-Justice Processing of Violent and Nonviolent Offenders: The Effects of Familial Relationship to the Victim -- PART II. EFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION -- 6. An Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and Consequent Victimization: Some Implications of Telephone Surveys -- 7. The Mixed Roles of Social Support and Social Obstruction in Recovery from Child Abuse -- 8. The Admissibility of Expert Testimony on the Battered-Woman Syndrome -- PART III. SOCIAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE: BATTERERS AND THEIR VICTIMS -- 9. The Outcome of Participation in a Shelter-Sponsored Program for Men Who Batter -- 10. Removal of the Perpetrator versus Removal of the Victim in Cases of Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse -- 11. Perceptions of Verbal Aggression in Interspousal Violence -- PART IV. LEGAL RESPONSES TO FAMILY VIOLENCE -- 12. Police Classification of Domestic-Violence Calls: An Assessment of Program Impact -- 13. Legal Responses of Prosecutors to Child Sexual Abuse: A Case Comparison of Two Countries -- 14. Family Violence and the Courts: Implementing a Comprehensive New Law -- 15. Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Sexual-Abuse Cases: Research Findings, Questions, and Implications for Public Policy -- 16. Preventing and Provoking Wife Battery through Criminal Sanctions: A Look at the Risks -- References -- Index