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…
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….
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…
AI is not going to replace you. You’re going to be replaced by someone who uses AI to outperform you. – Laurence Liew, director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore There’s no doubt about it; today’s Generative AI (GAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, are disruptive technologies. Boasting the ability to…
NYLI’s Technical Services Librarian, Eileen Dolan will be a guest speaker at an AALL Annual all-day pre-conference workshop titled Metadata Magicians’ Secrets Revealed: Basic Legal Cataloging on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 9:00am – 4:00pm. Speakers and moderators include: Coordinator/Speaker(s): Keelan Weber (she/her/hers) Head of Technical Services Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., New Jersey, United States…