by Allyssa McFadyen | Aug 8, 2018 | Current Awareness, New Books
Are you new to the profession, practicing a new area of law, or new to the library? We’ve created a display with you in mind! This month at the library we’ve collected a few of our materials that will help you get started.
Also featured on this display is a list of our current awareness newsletters. This is a service we offer to members of The Law Society of Manitoba to help professionals stay current. We send out updated issues of newsletters from LexisNexis and Westlaw. To be added to our distribution list, email library@lawsociety.mb.ca
If you’re new to the library, we’ve put together an information sheet that breaks down what we subscribe to both electronically and in print, and the services that we offer.
Titles on display are:
To take out one of these books, please see a staff member.
by Allyssa McFadyen | Jul 12, 2018 | Contract Law, Criminal Law, Government Procurement, Mining Law, New Books, Personal Injury
We’ve recently added new titles to our collection!
New to our library are titles from Emond’s Criminal Law Series. The series was awarded the 2018 Hugh Lawford Award for excellence in legal publishing.
New titles are:
If you’re looking to take out any of these books, please see a staff member. (48 hour loan period)
by Allyssa McFadyen | May 25, 2018 | Business Law, New Books
On Tuesday, May 29th the Winnipeg Public Library in conjunction with Community Legal Education Association is hosting a free session on Small Business and the Law as part of their Law in the Library program.

Lawyer Samuel Goszer, of Duboff Edwards Haight & Schachter Law Corporation will be speaking on different forms of business organization and licencing and legal requirements.
Registration is required. Click HERE for more information.
To keep up to date with what is happening around Winnipeg, we are featuring a display of some of our texts on business law to help you and your clients.
Titles are:
If you’re looking to take out any of these books, please see a staff member. (48 hour loan period).
by Allyssa McFadyen | Mar 21, 2018 | Legal Research, New Books
We’ve recently received quite a few new books for the Library, and we wanted to put them on display!
They are:
If you’d like to check out any of these materials, please let us know.
by Karen Sawatzky | Jan 4, 2018 | Legal Publishing, Legal Research, New Books
New additions to our print collection:
Civil Law:
Tort Law, 6th ed. by Lewis N. Klar
The Law of Declaratory Judgments, 4th ed. by Lazar Sarna
Criminal Law:
Watt’s Manual of Criminal Jury Instructions, 2nd ed. by The Honourable Mr. Justice David Watt
Administrative Law:
Practice and Procedure Before Administrative Tribunals by Robert W. Macaulay and James L.H. Sprague (6 vol. looseleaf)
New items are kept in our reserve collection, which is only available during business hours. Depending on demand, these can be borrowed for use off site for a limited amount of time.
by Karen Sawatzky | Oct 19, 2017 | Commentary, e-Books, Legal Research, New Books
If you’re a member of the Law Society of Manitoba, there is now even more content available for you behind the Member’s Portal. Under “Library Resources”, in addition to Heinonline.org, and Rangefindr.ca, we’ve added full Irwin Law collection, including the series, “Essentials of Canadian Law“.
Now you can have seamless access to authoritative secondary sources no matter where you live. However, you will have to remember your LSM username and password.
If you have any trouble accessing the site, please contact us at the Great Library.