By Peter Fong, Head of Legislative Research at The New York Law Institute On August 21, 2026, the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY) held a webinar on New York Library Association (NYLA) Advocacy. Earlier in the year, ALLUNY sponsored an “Advocacy 360” lunchtime webinar with Assemblymember Jen Lunsford as well as…
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; Read more here.
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…
From The Geek in Review: Greg Lambert reflects on the AALL 2026 conference filled with legal information professionals who understand how technology performs under real working conditions. “These librarians purchase products, train users, support law schools and courts, and often serve as internal advocates for legal technology. Their expertise makes vendor engagement especially valuable, yet…
New York City Bar Association issued its latest opinion regarding Artificial Intelligence, this time focusing on recording client communication. To read NYC Bar Association Opinion 2025-6 regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of client communication, click here…. Back in 2024, the same Bar Association issued an overview of…
Last week, I built an AI agent that will automate the creation and marketing of events in my library. Each month we run instructional webinar events for our members and setting these up every month is a time-consuming process with many moving parts and a lot of room for human error. With this new automation…
We’re proud to share that Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries, a groundbreaking new volume on the evolving roles and responsibilities of law librarians, features contributions from two of NYLI’s own. Edited by NYLI’s Director of Innovation & Engagement, Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, the book brings together thought…
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….
The ABA issued its first formal opinion covering the growing use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) back in July. Not surprisingly, the ABA emphasized that model rules related to competency, informed consent, confidentiality and fees principally apply. For full text of ABA Formal Opinion 512 (July 29, 2024), click here. And, not surprising to NYLI…