Higher Standards: SALI's Legal-Data Standardization Across the Legal Industry

Want to learn more about SALI, including why the the legal ecosystem’s largest vendors (e.g., Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, Fastcase, NetDocuments, Litera), firms (e.g., Perkins Coie, Ogletree Deakins, Goulston Storrs), and corporations (e.g., Microsoft) are all adopting SALI’s taxonomy/ontology, as a legal-data standard? Librarians frequently use taxonomies (e.g., MARC records, RDA Toolkit) as our profession’s framework. SALI’s rich ontology of 10,000+ tags describe both (1) substantive law and (2) the business of law. As a standard—that is free and open source—SALI is making this taxonomy/ontology of tags, permitting additional innovations (e.g., AI, NLP, LLMs) to be built on top of SALI’s rich dataset. Learn how Thomson Reuters plans to implement its SALI implementation across each of its legal products. Also learn how firms (e.g., Ogletree Deakins, Frost Brown Todd, Clifford Chance) and corporations (e.g., Microsoft) are implementing SALI. Where law librarians implement SALI in their organizations, they’re able to demonstrate—to the tech side of legal support—that librarians’ subject-matter expertise is necessary to enrich an organization’s systems. SALI implementation is an easy way to demonstrate that value.

Target Audience:

Really, anyone in a law firm (e.g., knowledge management, lawyers, business development, pricing) would be interested in learning about SALI. Each persona can facilitate the adoption of the rich taxonomy that includes specific terms of art. SALI covers both substantive law and business of law—so the audience can include managers, knowledge management, law library directors, technical service librarians, and research librarians.