About the author

• Author: Ted Tjaden
• Pages: 487-487

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ted Tj ade n, LLB, MISt, LLM, is a Canadian lawyer and law librarian

called to the bar in Br itish Columbia (1987) and Ontario (1996). He has

practised law in a variety of circumstances, including as a commercial

litigator, in-house counsel to Seiko Epson Corporation in Japan, and a

research law yer. In addition, his work at the University of Toronto, Fac-

ulty of Law, as a law librarian a nd adjunct professor, included teaching

legal research at the Faculty in add ition to teaching law librari anship

at the Faculty of Information. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from

Queen’s University, and both a Master of Information Studies and a

Master of Laws degree from the University of Toronto. Ted is also the

author of The Law of Independent Legal Advice (2d ed, 2013). In 2010,

he was awarded the Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence

in Law Librari anship by the Canadian Association of Law Librar ies

and in 2008, Canadian Lawyer described him as a “luminary” of the

Canadian blogosphere. Ted maintains a free companion website to this

book (www.legalresearchandwriting.ca). In addition, as a hobby, he

has created and maintains a different website cal led “Classic Ragtime

Piano” (www.ragtimepiano.ca), where he makes available (for free) his

research on ragtime piano, along with access to thousands of pieces of

pre-1923 public domain, digital copies of ragt ime piano sheet music.