Bob Oaks has been a law firm librarian over 35 years, having spent the past 25 years at the 2,100-lawyer firm of Latham & Watkins LLP, where he recently retired as Chief Library and Records Officer. While at Latham, he managed the firm’s Department of Information Resources, which includes divisions for Library, Records, Conflicts/New Business Intake, and Litigation Services. The department totals over 200 people working among the firm’s 32 offices in 17 countries, all of which Bob has visited in a global pursuit of the best research sources and the most passport stamps. Prior to his service at Latham, he was Legislative Librarian at O’Melveny & Myers. Bob managed all of these operations for a West-Coast, and then global, firm from Washington, D.C., and always sought to ensure that the firm was on the cutting edge of information science. He has served as one of the informal “deans” of law librarianship in America.
Robert (Bob) Oaks
Chief Library and Records Officer, Latham & Watkins,(retired)