Existing models of the information behaviour of various liberal professionals, especially lawyers, lack currentness. They do not adequately represent the full scope of how these professionals de facto attain information in their occupation. Without clarity about the contemporary information-gathering practice of liberal professionals in a workplace setting, scholars, technology entrepreneurs and policy makers might be relying on partial or outdated grounds, and the ability of the information specialists to provide an effective service for their patrons might also be hindered. With a focus on legal professionals, as they have experienced noteworthy changes in their occupation, purposive sampling was applied, and 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with practising lawyers in Israel. Participants were nationwide and ranged over 30 different areas of legal practice, with a fair diversity of other professionals and personal traits achieved. The content analysis revealed four distinctive forms in which lawyers in Israel gather information within the contemporary legal practice: (a) self-executed information-seeking, (b) mediated acquisition of information, (c) information discovery and (d) combined information-gathering – which in all compile 10 different habitual strategies of gathering information in their professional work. Finally, the study suggests a revised, integrative and inclusive model that provides a more accurate and profound understanding of legal professionals’ information-gathering practice. This comprehensive and current framework may serve as an insightful guide for understanding other information-rich liberal professions.

各种自由主义者，尤其是律师的信息行为的现有模型缺乏最新性。他们并不能充分代表这些专业人员事实上在其职业中如何获取信息的全部范围。如果不清楚在工作场所中自由职业者的当代信息收集实践，那么学者，技术企业家和政策制定者可能会依靠部分或过时的理由，并且信息专家向其顾客提供有效服务的能力也可能会被阻碍。重点关注法律专业人士，因为他们的职业经历了显着的变化，因此进行了有目的的抽样，并与以色列的执业律师进行了20次半结构化访谈。参与者遍布全国，涉及30多个不同的法律实践领域，并具有相当多的其他专业人员和个人特质。内容分析揭示了以色列律师在当代法律实践中收集信息的四种独特形式：（a）自我执行的信息寻求，（b）信息的中介获取，（c）信息发现和（d）组合信息-收集–总共收集了10种习惯性策略来收集其专业工作中的信息。最后，该研究提出了一种经过修订的，整合的，包容性的模型，该模型可以对法律专业人士的信息收集实践提供更准确，更深刻的理解。