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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/05/2026
The Bluebook Doesn't Cover Everything ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/t...
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The Bluebook Doesn’t Cover Everything
Given how detailed The Bluebook is, it might lull readers into a false sense of security. They might think, “Yes, The Bluebook has a large number of rules, but once I master them, I’ll know exactly…
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 30/04/2026
Lexis, Westlaw, V-Lex, and many more: Damien Charlotin on how the legal-tech industry's "hallucination-free AI" claims are changing, one quietly edited webpage at a time artificialauthority.ai/p/tracking-h...
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Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors
Some people have not heard of the WayBack Machine
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 27/04/2026
The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America's Immigration Surveillance Machine www.lawnext.com/2026/04/the-...
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The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America’s Immigration Surveillance Machine
For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools of the trade – essential systems for finding case law, checking citations and...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/04/2026
Exciting news! @free.law project is scanning America's case law, picking up from where Harvard left off free.law/2026/04/16/s...
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Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law
Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 06/04/2026
Stevens papers reveal the perilous path for researchers attempting to draw conclusions from the Supreme Court's emergency docket www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...
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What really happens on the emergency docket
By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court seeking emergency orders, oftentimes without full briefing and oral argument...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 02/04/2026
Oregon's New AI Companion Law, Explained techlaw.osbar.org/blog/oregons...
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Oregon’s New AI Companion Law: What You Need to Know – Technology Law Section
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 19/03/2026
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.” [smithsonianmag.com]
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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631
A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus Copernicus
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/03/2026
National Academies of Sciences, unlike the Federal Judicial Center, refuses to remove climate data from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (via @bespacific.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🤖 In policy? Thinking about the definition of "AI"? Led by @aspendigital.bsky.social, a set of us at intersection of AI/ethics/law/policy put together this resource on the lineage of policy "AI" definitions, what they're getting right, what might be improved. www.aspendigital.org/report/defin...
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Defining Technologies of Our Time - Aspen Digital
This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 09/03/2026
One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools (or, "What Happens When a Law Professor With Some Python Experience and an AI Coding Assistant Starts Saying Yes to Every Pedagogical Impulse") www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/03/04/c...
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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools - AI Law Librarians
Somewhere around tool number five, I realized I had a problem. The kind where you keep saying "almost done" and then it's 2 AM and you're finalizing a React app that lets your students act as bots and...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/03/2026
LexisNexis breach exposes law firm and government user data — 400,000 profiles compromised www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lexi...
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LexisNexis Says Data Breach Has Been Cointained; Hackers Claim Access to Government and Law Firm User Data
LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stole...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/03/2026
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, including the well-hidden "verbatim" mode cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 03/03/2026
"We've spent too much time trying to make AI accurate, and not enough time making it useful for thinking." @denniskennedy.bsky.social on using sandpit mode to re-center human judgment and ask better questions www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2026/02...
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Building the Stochastic Sandpit for AI
We've spent the last couple of years treating generative AI like a vending machine. Select a task. Insert a prompt. Retrieve a product. And to be fair, in
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 25/02/2026
So long Lexis+ AI, hello Lexis+ with Protégé (and hundreds of workflows) www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lexi...
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LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform
You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that  fully replaces Lexis+ AI — wh...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 23/02/2026
What the science says about hallucinations in legal research, and how to use this info to pick—and use wisely—the right tool (by @thefordon.bsky.social) www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/02/19/w...
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What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research - AI Law Librarians
This is Part 1 of a three-part series on AI hallucinations in legal research. Part 2 will examine hallucination detection tools, and Part 3 will provide a practical verification framework for lawyers....
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 09/02/2026
Now publicly available: The United States Water Withdrawals Database, the first nationwide resource to track who is drawing water from rivers, lakes, and underground aquifers, and in what amounts. phys.org/news/2026-02...
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New database reveals how Americans use water
Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and fo...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 05/02/2026
New from @scotusblog.com, the Interim Relief Docket — or 'Shadow Docket' — Stat Pack www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/intr...
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Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack
For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/02/2026
"For legal tech, it is landing more like a tsunami than a drop." Bob Ambrogi on Anthropic's surprise legal plugin for Claude Cowork www.lawnext.com/2026/02/anth...
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Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents
To read today's news, you'd think it was the shot heard 'round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. 'Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,' repo...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/02/2026
AI Tools Are A Starting Point — Not A Substitute — For Legal Research abovethelaw.com/2026/02/ai-t...
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AI Tools Are A Starting Point - Not A Substitute - For Legal Research - Above the Law
Using AI does not change your duties or lower the standard of competence.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 27/01/2026
The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation safety regulations. “It seems wildly irresponsible," said one DOT rule writer. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 26/01/2026
Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lega...
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Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law
A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law. 'Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath....
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 14/01/2026
Part four of this series on assessing the risks of AI to lawyers reminds us: don't forget about the finances abovethelaw.com/2026/01/like...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 12/01/2026
"Seeing who's here, it's not the case you thought." @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what drives the timing of when the Supreme Court hands down rulings in argued cases www.stevevladeck.com/p/202-the-ti...
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202. The Timing of Rulings in Argued Cases
The Supreme Court's internal norms usually make it more than a little difficult to be confident about which decisions in argued cases will be handed down when.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This new Atlantic piece cites my work with @afedercooper.bsky.social, Amy Cyphert, and others in discussing the complexities around AI memorization of training content www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 09/01/2026
Is legal prepared for the wearables revolution? abovethelaw.com/2026/01/are-...
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Are We Prepared To Deal With The Coming Wearable Revolution? - Above the Law
Wearables offer tremendous potential benefits. But our responsibility is to think hard about the risks these wearables bring to the legal process.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 06/01/2026
For careful lawyers, a path for ethical adoption of consumer-grade general AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini www.nicoleblackesq.com/post/why-acc...
nicoleblackesq.com
Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI Tool
Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI ToolGenerative artificial intelligence (GAI) is advancing far more rapidly than the technologies that preceded it, and adoption rates are soaring....
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 20/12/2025
Winter break is here, so we'll step away and catch you all in January. Need something to read? Enjoy our annual @lclarklaw.bsky.social faculty and staff book recommendations lawlib.lclark.edu/annualbookre...
Lewis & Clark Law School faculty and staff book recommendations. 
Image is a 6x3 grid of book covers from the linked selections, from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon through The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. Click through for listing of all books in plain text with links.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 19/12/2025
New: IFCMA Climate Policy Database maps 1600 mitigation policies across 38 countries www.oecd.org/en/data/dash...
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Climate policy dashboard
The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) is a country member-driven initiative coordinated by the OECD, bringing together OECD and non-OECD countries, to support climate action thro...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 12/12/2025
EPA removes at least 80 webpages related to climate change, its impacts, and its causes.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 10/12/2025
U.S. Legislative Branch Data Map. Part of the Innovation Hub's efforts "to cultivate collaboration, foster data standardization, and increase transparency" (via @bespacific.bsky.social) www.bespacific.com/do-you-ever-...
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Do you ever wonder what Congress is up to? – beSpacific
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 08/12/2025
Building resilient legal researchers in the age of AI. Part 4 of a four-part series on how source blindness and source erasure threaten the core understanding of text-specific authority—and what legal education can do about it. ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/g...
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Guest Post – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 4)
A pile of chicken nuggets isolated onImage by James Palinsad from   BY-SA 2.0,  Text: A pile of chicken nuggets isolated on black color background This is Part 4 of a four-part series from guest co…
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 05/12/2025
Struggling to track local court tech rules and orders? You're not alone. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-...
abovethelaw.com
The Courtroom Tech Maze No One Asked For - Above the Law
Court restrictions can stifle curiosity about technology and negatively impact adoption rates.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 04/12/2025
Case law now fully integrated into @heinonline.bsky.social via @free.law's CourtListener home.heinonline.org/blog/2025/12...
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Meet CourtListener: Your New Case Law Power Tool - HeinOnline Blog
HeinOnline now integrates CourtListener for faster, smarter case law research with access millions of decisions, advanced tools, and more.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 02/12/2025
Lack of power for data centers may undermine big law's AI dreams abovethelaw.com/2025/12/like...
abovethelaw.com
Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) - Above the Law
What can legal do to survive? Be aware of the volcano that could and likely will erupt.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 29/11/2025
Thanksgiving Vibe-Coding and the Case for "Single-Serving" Legal Software www.ailawlibrarians.com/2025/11/27/t...
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Thanksgiving Vibe-Coding and the Case for “Single-Serving” Legal Software - AI Law Librarians
Way back in 2023, I thought it was amazing how I could use generative AI to streamline my Thanksgiving prep: I gave it my recipes, and it gave me a schedule. It was a static list—a text document that ...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/11/2025
Why learning AI feels like a second job, and how to avoid being overwhelmed by it all (via @mikemcbrideonline.com) wrk3.substack.com/p/learning-a...
Image from linked site. Contents: Cartoon illustration of a child in a red shirt shouting into a garden hose with water spraying out forcefully, eyes closed and mouth wide open. Multiple tan-colored labels reading "ATTENTION REQUEST" are scattered around the child against a blue sky background with white clouds and water spray effects. Green bushes are visible at the bottom of the image.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 11/11/2025
Law Librarians Take the Lead: The Future of AI and Legal Information www.geeklawblog.com/2025/11/law-...
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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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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 07/11/2025
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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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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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 05/11/2025
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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Semantic Search API Now Live!
Try out our Semantic Search API in CourtListener, a big step forward in case law search!
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 05/11/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 01/11/2025
A look back at lessons learned from last week's mock trial featuring AI jurors abovethelaw.com/2025/10/law-...
Screenshot of Bluesky post by NotreDale.bsky.social.

Caption: "Excuse me, juror number 3 is sleeping"

Four images:
1: AI jurors ChatGPT, Grok, Claude (large displays)
2: Close up on juror Claude, showing almost no text
3. Simpsons scene 1: Homer and Abu in juror box, Homer head nodded over, wearing comical fake glasses that are supposed to look like eyes open. Abu raising hand.
4. Simpsons scene 2: Glasses now in Abu's hand, showing Homer fast asleep.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/10/2025
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...
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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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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 29/10/2025
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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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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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Finally, some good news: taxprofblog.aals.org/2025/10/23/t...
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TaxProf Blog 2.0 • TaxProf Blog
TaxProf Blog 2.0 has a new home at the Association of American Law Schools with new tax editors and legal education editors
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 24/10/2025
"A turning point for the entire legal profession and for everyone whom that profession serves." www.lawnext.com/2025/10/to-a...
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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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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 23/10/2025
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...
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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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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/10/2025
U.S. federal courts to begin staff furloughs and limited closures as they run out of funding news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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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.
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/10/2025
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...
Image of bar graph from linked report.
Title: Aggregate Weighted Scores
Results:
Lawyer baseline: 69%
Alexi: 77%
Counsel Stack: 78%
Midpage: 76%
ChatGPT: 74%
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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 16/10/2025
Chatting Isn't Training: Demystifying Memory in LLMs www.choice360.org/libtech-insi...
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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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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 10/10/2025
TL;DR: OpenAI will cease saving deleted ChatGPT conversations following a court ruling that overturned a prior order mandating the retention of these logs.
arstechnica.com
OpenAI no longer forced to save deleted chats—but some users still affected
Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.
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