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Law Librarians Take the Lead: The Future of AI and Legal Information www.geeklawblog.com/2025/11/law-...
Law Librarians Take the Lead: The Future of AI and Legal Information
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome three powerhouse guests—Cas Laskowski, Taryn Marks, and Kristina (Kris) Niedringhaus—who are charting a
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November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Law Librarians Take the Lead: The Future of AI and Legal Information www.geeklawblog.com/2025/11/law-...
First annual Disability in Law School survey: 1 in 5 law students live with a disability, persistent gaps in institutional support remain lssse.indiana.edu/what-we-do/r...
Annual Results: Research: What We Do: Law School Survey of Student Engagement: Indiana University Bloomington
A compelling look at changes and trends in legal education from 2004 to 2025.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
First annual Disability in Law School survey: 1 in 5 law students live with a disability, persistent gaps in institutional support remain lssse.indiana.edu/what-we-do/r...
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Today we're launching semantic search as an API. The legal technology space is booming, and this is one of the top requests we've heard from innovators. With this launch, new systems can provide powerful legal research without reinventing the search engine itself. 1/
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Semantic Search API Now Live!
Try out our Semantic Search API in CourtListener, a big step forward in case law search!
free.law
November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today we're launching semantic search as an API. The legal technology space is booming, and this is one of the top requests we've heard from innovators. With this launch, new systems can provide powerful legal research without reinventing the search engine itself. 1/
free.law/2025/11/05/s...
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What remains for human lawyers as AI systems get more powerful and widely used? Two views from @sglassmeyer.bsky.social and @jordanfurlong.com taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/11/04/f...
Furlong, Glassmeyer: Lawyering in the AI Era • TaxProf Blog
What remains for human lawyers as AI systems get more powerful and widely used in law practice, and what are the implications for legal education? Two complementary views from thoughtful observers of ...
taxprofblog.aals.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What remains for human lawyers as AI systems get more powerful and widely used? Two views from @sglassmeyer.bsky.social and @jordanfurlong.com taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/11/04/f...
A look back at lessons learned from last week's mock trial featuring AI jurors abovethelaw.com/2025/10/law-...
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A look back at lessons learned from last week's mock trial featuring AI jurors abovethelaw.com/2025/10/law-...
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EFF's legal internship gives law students the chance to work on groundbreaking tech law cases. Ready to make an impact? Apply now! www.eff.org/about/oppor...
Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of November 1. See below for instructions and a link to the application.EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a
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October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
EFF's legal internship gives law students the chance to work on groundbreaking tech law cases. Ready to make an impact? Apply now! www.eff.org/about/oppor...
The five 'Fs'—Fabrication, Fluency, Fickleness, Fragility, and (un)Faithfulness—that help explain the subtle deceptiveness of AI. Insightful article by @amysalyzyn.bsky.social www.slaw.ca/2025/10/28/d...
Deceptive Dynamics of Generative AI: Beyond the “First-Year Associate” Framing - Slaw
Guidance for lawyers on generative AI use consistently urges careful verification of outputs. One popular framing advises treating AI as a “first-year associate”—smart and keen, but inexperienced and ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The five 'Fs'—Fabrication, Fluency, Fickleness, Fragility, and (un)Faithfulness—that help explain the subtle deceptiveness of AI. Insightful article by @amysalyzyn.bsky.social www.slaw.ca/2025/10/28/d...
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"A turning point for the entire legal profession and for everyone whom that profession serves." www.lawnext.com/2025/10/to-a...
To A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision for a New Era of AI-Driven Legal Work
Have you ever found yourself present in a moment and realized you were witnessing something historic? It is not an exaggeration to say that is what many of the 2,700 in-person attendees felt who were....
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October 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"A turning point for the entire legal profession and for everyone whom that profession serves." www.lawnext.com/2025/10/to-a...
Looking back at the Vals legal AI research report: Why didn’t the big players play ball and other questions www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/10/20/v...
Vals Legal AI Research Eval – The Aftermath
The latest Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) has been published and focuses on legal research. It’s certainly got attention because key players didn’t take part and AI clearly ‘beat’ human lawyers. AL t…
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October 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Looking back at the Vals legal AI research report: Why didn’t the big players play ball and other questions www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/10/20/v...
U.S. federal courts to begin staff furloughs and limited closures as they run out of funding news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
US Courts Face First Furloughs Under Shutdown in 30 Years (2)
Federal courts across the US are preparing to furlough some staffers and curb operations as the judiciary prepares to run out of funding amid an ongoing government shutdown.
news.bloomberglaw.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
U.S. federal courts to begin staff furloughs and limited closures as they run out of funding news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Vals releases new AI benchmarking report comparing lawyers to legal research tools Alexi, Counsel Stack, Midpage, and ChatGPT. The nuanced results: AI tools outperformed lawyers on 6 of 10 question types—and ChatGPT was nearly as effective as specialized legal AI. www.vals.ai/industry-rep...
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Vals releases new AI benchmarking report comparing lawyers to legal research tools Alexi, Counsel Stack, Midpage, and ChatGPT. The nuanced results: AI tools outperformed lawyers on 6 of 10 question types—and ChatGPT was nearly as effective as specialized legal AI. www.vals.ai/industry-rep...
Chatting Isn't Training: Demystifying Memory in LLMs www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...
Chatting Isn't Training: Demystifying Memory in LLMs - Choice 360
Many librarians worry that AI companies use their chats for training purposes. Not so! This post clears up the misconception.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Chatting Isn't Training: Demystifying Memory in LLMs www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...
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TL;DR: OpenAI will cease saving deleted ChatGPT conversations following a court ruling that overturned a prior order mandating the retention of these logs.
OpenAI no longer forced to save deleted chats—but some users still affected
Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.
arstechnica.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
TL;DR: OpenAI will cease saving deleted ChatGPT conversations following a court ruling that overturned a prior order mandating the retention of these logs.
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CourtListener has powerful search alerts for federal court data. Here's how our director uses the feature to monitor litigation, SCOTUS, and more: free.law/2025/06/24/h...
How I use RECAP Search Alerts for PACER Data
RECAP Search Alerts make it easy to monitor the federal courts. This is how our director uses the system.
free.law
October 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
CourtListener has powerful search alerts for federal court data. Here's how our director uses the feature to monitor litigation, SCOTUS, and more: free.law/2025/06/24/h...
Why AI? Lawyers busted for submitting briefs with hallucinated cases blame poor judgment, the software, misplaced trust, and pressure. But mostly, they blame someone else. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Why AI? Lawyers busted for submitting briefs with hallucinated cases blame poor judgment, the software, misplaced trust, and pressure. But mostly, they blame someone else. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...
In amicus briefs, @eff.org, @archive.org, @free.law, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, and more argue that headnote summaries of judicial opinions are not copyrightable, or at the least that fair use applies www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Protecting Access to the Law—and Beneficial Uses of AI
As the first copyright cases concerning AI reach appeals courts, EFF wants to protect important, beneficial uses of this technology—including AI for legal research. That’s why we weighed in on the lon...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In amicus briefs, @eff.org, @archive.org, @free.law, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, and more argue that headnote summaries of judicial opinions are not copyrightable, or at the least that fair use applies www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The invaluable @sabincenter.bsky.social Climate Litigation Database now combines their U.S. and Global resources into a single, unified platform blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
Relaunching the Climate Litigation Database: Tracking the Law in a New Era - Climate Law Blog
When lawsuits first began to raise climate change issues in the late 1980s, the cases were rare and experimental, with litigants testing out ways to draw on the growing body of climate science to argu...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The invaluable @sabincenter.bsky.social Climate Litigation Database now combines their U.S. and Global resources into a single, unified platform blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
"A warning shot." Judge Scott Schlegel on the Mendones case and what to do now that deepfakes in the courtroom are no longer hypothetical. judgeschlegel.com/blog/what-ha...
What happens when AI deepfakes fool a judge? — Judge Scott Schlegel
We keep hearing about AI “hallucinations.” But the Mendones case out of California may be one of the first major reported cases where a court had to deal directly with deepfake evidence. On Septembe...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"A warning shot." Judge Scott Schlegel on the Mendones case and what to do now that deepfakes in the courtroom are no longer hypothetical. judgeschlegel.com/blog/what-ha...
"A generational opportunity to fundamentally expand who has access to justice": Legal aid orgs are adopting AI at twice the rate of the wider legal profession. www.lawnext.com/2025/09/lega...
Legal Aid Organizations Embrace AI at Twice the Rate of Other Lawyers, New Study Reveals
A study examining artificial intelligence adoption in legal aid organizations has revealed that these resource-constrained nonprofits are embracing AI technology at nearly double the rate of the broad...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"A generational opportunity to fundamentally expand who has access to justice": Legal aid orgs are adopting AI at twice the rate of the wider legal profession. www.lawnext.com/2025/09/lega...
New database of domestic case-law on human trafficking released by the Council of Europe (via @bespacific.bsky.social) www.coe.int/en/web/anti-...
Launch of a new database of domestic case-law on human trafficking
HUDOC-GRETA Strasbourg, France 19 September 2025
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September 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New database of domestic case-law on human trafficking released by the Council of Europe (via @bespacific.bsky.social) www.coe.int/en/web/anti-...
@harvardlil.bsky.social adds over 5 million Smithsonian items to the Public Data Project (via @bespacific.bsky.social) lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/09...
Expanding Our Public Data Project to Include Smithsonian Collections Data | Library Innovation Lab
Smithsonian Institution building, from Wikimedia Commons
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September 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@harvardlil.bsky.social adds over 5 million Smithsonian items to the Public Data Project (via @bespacific.bsky.social) lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/09...
“This is bonkers.” The controversial new Bluebook rule on citing to AI-generated content: www.lawnext.com/2025/09/new-...
New Bluebook Rule On Citing to AI Generates Criticism from Legal Scholars and Practitioners
Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
“This is bonkers.” The controversial new Bluebook rule on citing to AI-generated content: www.lawnext.com/2025/09/new-...
In a race against the clock, @lexblog.bsky.social has saved over 220,000 legal blog posts from the impending demise of Typepad. kevin.lexblog.com/2025/09/17/u...
Update On Migration of Typepad Hosted Legal Publishing
Preserving and republishing over 150 endangered legal blogs with hundreds of thousands of blog posts before Typepad closes and deletes alll publishing on September 30.
kevin.lexblog.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In a race against the clock, @lexblog.bsky.social has saved over 220,000 legal blog posts from the impending demise of Typepad. kevin.lexblog.com/2025/09/17/u...
A twist! After finding that 21 of 23 case quotations in the appellant's brief were fabricated (an impressive 91.3% hallucination rate), the court refused to award attorneys' fees because of the opposing counsel's failure to catch the false citations www.lawnext.com/2025/09/a-ne...
A New Wrinkle in AI Hallucination Cases: Lawyers Dinged for Failing to Detect Opponent’s Fake Citations
A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer's duty to detect fabricated,....
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September 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A twist! After finding that 21 of 23 case quotations in the appellant's brief were fabricated (an impressive 91.3% hallucination rate), the court refused to award attorneys' fees because of the opposing counsel's failure to catch the false citations www.lawnext.com/2025/09/a-ne...