The AALL has an excellent 12-page booklet on Best Practices for Using AI in Legal Research: A Guide for Non-Lawyers. This free resource publication is available on their website and covers the following;
NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, will be giving a webinar for the American Library Association (ALA) on Law Librarianship for Beginners. In this webinar, participants will learn the fundamental elements of finding legal materials, including primary sources like constitutions; statutes; court opinions and case law; regulations; and administrative decisions. Kroski will…
October 2024 by Martin Korn, Golden Arrow Publishing The New York Law Institute, located in one of the World’s most cosmopolitan cities counts many international law firms as members. This brief post will highlight the importance of offering foreign language titles to attorneys in the non-United States office locations for many of these global firms….
Michel Sahyoun writes for the ABA’s Law Technology Today: “In legal, as in every other sector, AI has become the expected answer before the question is even fully formed. That’s not because it is necessarily the right fit for the problem at hand, but because hesitation has been reframed as falling behind. The shift toward…
Amanda Silberling reports for TechCrunch: “Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” jokes Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini. “I was inspired by the feeling of people’s frustration with…
NYLI’s Director of IT & Marketing Ellyssa Valenti Kroski was a guest on the latest Geek in Review podcast discussing her new book, Law Librarianship in the Age of AI and her Alexander Hamilton-themed escape room which she’ll be running at the Ark Group’s 14th annual Law Firm Library, Research & Information Services in New York,…
NotebookLM is an exciting new (and free!) AI application modeled on Google’s generative AI model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, that will create briefing documents, FAQs, timelines, study guides, tables of contents, and even a podcast based on your content! After signing up for an account with NotebookLM, you can create different notebooks made up of documents…