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 told me when to put the turkey in, when to swap in the stuffing, and so
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Legal Research Trapping You in an “AI Tunnel”? Use a Toe-hold to Get Out
I’ve been watching my legal research students use AI and noticing a common pattern.
They typically go into an AI “Ask” feature in Lexis or Westlaw, get an answer, and then continue the conversation by asking more questions. This is exactly what the tools are designed to encourage.
The problem is that this process often
Future of Law Libraries Initiative
The impact of AI on varied aspects of our professional lives is covered regularly on this blog. It is reshaping legal research, education, and legal practice in ways that threaten to leave us behind if we fail to be proactive. It is why the Future of Law Libraries Initiative gathered professionals from academic, court, firm,
Effortless Boolean: A Free Tool to Supercharge Your Legal Research
As anyone who has taught legal research knows, Boolean searching is a superpower. The ability to craft a precise query with terms and connectors is the difference between finding a needle in a haystack and finding nothing at all. But for newcomers, the syntax of ( ), !, /p, and /s can feel like learning
Benchmarking a Moving Target, or let’s run a hypo through 7 AIs and see what happens
Debbie Ginsberg, Guest Blogger
Benchmarking should be simple, right? Come up with a set of criteria, run some tests, and compare the answers. But how do you benchmark a moving target like generative AI?
Over the past months, I’ve tested a sample legal question in various commercial LLMs (like ChatGPT and Google Gemini) and RAGs
Coming Soon: The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker — Sneak Peek Today!
If you follow me on LinkedIn or spoke with me at AALL, you’ve probably seen me teasing this project like it’s the season finale of a legal tech drama. Well, the wait is (almost) over — here’s your official sneak peek at our forthcoming interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker.
The People Behind the Tracker
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First Known Court Order with Fabricated Cases (and a Test Run of CiteCheck AI)
AI may have struck again with hallucinations. Yesterday evening, I was forwarded a quote from the case opinion of Shahid v. Esaam, 2025 Ga. App. LEXIS 299, at *3 [Ct App June 30, 2025, No. A25A0196]) released on June 30, 2025 by the Georgia Court of Appeals. (HT Mary Matuszak!)(link to official opinion, not
Vibe-Coding Instruction: I Made a Boolean Minigame In 30 Minutes
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to bring more interactivity and immediacy into legal research instruction—especially for those topics that never quite “click” the first time. One idea that’s stuck with me is vibe-coding (see Sam Harden’s recent piece on vibecoding for access to justice). The concept, loosely put, is about using
OpenAI’s New Deep Research Model
This post is brought to you by ChatGPT’s Deep Research. It produced this report after about 10 minutes of thinking and searching online (sources in the footnotes). I have also used it for a couple of fairly complex legal research queries and it produces the equivalent of an article from a treatise – they
Revolutionizing Legal Education with AI: The Socratic Quizbot
I had the pleasure of co-teaching AI and the Practice of Law with Kenton Brice last semester at OU Law. It was an incredible experience. When we met to think through how we would teach this course, we agreed on one crucial component:We wanted the students to get a lot of reps using AI throughout