Law library budgets can easily grow wild like sprawling and untamed gardens. In the past, law librarians could be managing literally thousands of print titles spread across dozens of locations. The pandemic accelerated the full embrace of digital alternatives to print. Today many law firm libraries have small print collections but a large and complex network of digital licenses. Law…
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By Caroline Hill  International Women’s Day can be a fairly divisive topic: some people think it’s important to mark the occasion and celebrate the amazing women in our industry and […]
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During its annual PrivacyCon symposium on Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission heard from a group of privacy and security researchers about whether there are appropriate security guardrails and enforcement to keep up with large language models’ evolution.
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Decades ago, I assumed that technology would soon advance to the point where automated document assembly would be fully incorporated in most law offices across the country. While great strides have been made in law office technology tools, and tools for automatically generating documents are much improved over what was available decades previously, many law firms still have not fully…
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Approximately 41,000 civil lawsuits are filed daily in the U.S., and 97% circulate at the circuit and county level. This represents a goldmine of information about the litigation process. Here’s how to harness the power of those big numbers. Read Our Article…
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Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. 
It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 million pages from 39,796 law…
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