The Rev. Father John DiGilio

Rev. Father John DiGilio, AC, JD
Rector, Parish of St. Joachim
Los Angeles, California.

John DiGilio is the Senior Director of Research & Intelligence for LAC Group’s LibSource division. He has 20 years of large law firm library and legal information vendor experience. John has proudly been affiliated with such industry standouts as Thomson Reuters, K&L Gates, and Reed Smith LLP where he was the National Manager of Research Services for almost a decade.

John is very active in the law and law library communities. He has written for numerous regional and national publications as well as taught college and graduate courses in such topics as business ethics, e-commerce, fair employment practices, research methodology and business law. He also enjoys talking about technology and leadership to various library organizations and has spoken all over the United States, Canada, and even the Caribbean.

John earned his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law and his Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of On Firmer Ground, a blog by and for law firm librarians, and his own information tech blog, TILT. He is also the co-editor of the popular Pinhawk Law Librarian Digest.

He is a Priest in the AJC and the leader of our LA Parish, St. Joachim of Fiore.  In addition to his work with the AJC, John is also a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist and student of Vedanta.