Dan Bindman at Legal Futures reports that Joshua Browder, an 18-year-old computing student at Stanford University in California has created:
““the UK’s first robot lawyer”, which “can talk to you, generate documents and answer questions. It is just like a real lawyer, but is completely free”.”
Browder created the artificial intelligence for his not-for-profit website, donotpay.co.uk. […]
Benjamin Ramsden, UVic Law Student, Advanced Legal Research and Writing Guest Blogger, writes for Slaw about the The Importance of Keeping a Record of legal research.
“When I registered for ALRW I thought the most important improvement in my research skills would relate to finding and locating relevant legal materials. However, learning to keep a […]
NYLI EBL eBooks Webinar
Jan 27 1:30-2:00 pm Eastern
The New York Law Institute now offers members direct free access to a collection of over 90,000 eBooks from major legal, academic, business and general-interest publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Economist Books, John Wiley & Sons, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Routledge, Springer, and many more.
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Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog discusses the vital role of the law librarian in his article In the Age of Google, Law Librarians Manage Your Time, People, and Money. The article is a response to the recent WSJ opinion piece by Steve Barker, “In the Age of Google, Librarians Get Shelved. […]
Jason Tashea at Technical.ly takes a look at seven legal technology and data innovations that are using tech to make the law more accessible. Here are just a few that are discussed:
eRegulations, Washington, D.C.
Federal regulations are not easy to read, research or understand. Even the federal government knows this, so the Consumer Financial Protection […]
NYLI ProQuest Congressional Webinar
Jan 20 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern
Optimize your federal legislative history research with ProQuest Congressional
The Library of the New York Law Institute offers web-based training sessions to help you discover new resources and enhance your research with Proquest Congressional, the premier electronic service for access to the activities and publications […]
The New York Law Institute will be closed on Monday, January 18 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2016. Enjoy the holiday!
Ed Silverstein writes for Legaltech News about how law school students and existing attorneys need to prepare themselves so that they remain relevant in the digital age in Next-Generation Lawyers Need Tech Savviness as Computers Could Become Attorneys’ Rivals.
“The lawyer who will survive in the digital age is the lawyer who knows how to […]
Shana Kimball, Manager, Public Programs and Outreach, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, NYPL Labs announces on behalf of the NYPL the release of more than 180,000 digitized items. These files are free to use, and free from permissions restrictions according to the post:
“Today we are proud to announce that out-of-copyright materials in NYPL Digital Collections […]
Jacob Gershman writes for The Wall Street Journal’s LawBlog about an impending rival publication to the “bible of legal citation” known as The Blue Book. This disruptive guide penned by open-records activist Carl Malamud and NYU law professor Christopher Sprigman will be freely available online and based on the open Creative-Commons license.
“The problem with […]
