Legal researchers depend heavily on people like Jill Bergquist. She’s a Key Number Classifier at West, a critical contributor in the editorial process that connects common threads across vast collections of legal content, ultimately making it easier to find and use specific materials.
Organization is everything for the researcher trying to find unique points of law when searching hundreds of years of legal opinions from the courts.
“I think people are surprised that there are so many topics and that there’s that much granularity,” said Bergquist. “The law is really separated out, and I’m among those who take the headnotes written for a case - the key points of law – and classify them into the 400 or so topics and beyond.”
As she points out in this video clip, Bergquist knows her role at West is important to a legal researcher’s daily work:
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