ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

The paper explores the development of Information and Communication Technology and its possible changing impact on legal education, legal profession/practice and law librarians while giving an overview of some of the parameters which determine the relationship amongst information technology and legal profession/practice and its possible impact on the Law Librarian. It also delineates the functions, impacts and challenges of information and communication technology based law library system. This study is based on the review of primary and secondary literature, which includes books, journals, documents, seminar papers etc. Relevant literature were also collected and consulted through internet browsing. However the pace of the legal process and the world continue to increase, necessitate the introduction of new organizational culture and practices, hence, the introduction of ICTs in the legal profession. ICT is the vogue that is now pervading the study, teaching and research into law.