Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
This paper investigated the e-lawyering and virtual law practice as an innovative approach in rendering legal services and how the innovation has influenced a new system of library operation. Specifically, the paper aimed at giving an overview of e-lawyering and virtual law practice, characteristics of e-lawyering and virtual law practice, law library system in the era of virtual advances, overlapping significance of virtual law practice and virtual law library, cloud-based legal technologies in virtual libraries for effective legal practice, advantages of cloud technologies in virtual law library system, features of cloud management software for virtual law practice and challenges of the virtual law library system for effective virtual practice in Nigeria.