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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 5d

CourtListener has powerful search alerts for federal court data. Here's how our director uses the feature to monitor litigation, SCOTUS, and more: free.law/2025/06/24/h...

How I use RECAP Search Alerts for PACER Data

RECAP Search Alerts make it easy to monitor the federal courts. This is how our director uses the system.

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 7d

Why AI? Lawyers busted for submitting briefs with hallucinated cases blame poor judgment, the software, misplaced trust, and pressure. But mostly, they blame someone else. www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 8d

In amicus briefs, @eff.org, @archive.org, @free.law, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, and more argue that headnote summaries of judicial opinions are not copyrightable, or at the least that fair use applies www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Protecting Access to the Law—and Beneficial Uses of AI

As the first copyright cases concerning AI reach appeals courts, EFF wants to protect important, beneficial uses of this technology—including AI for legal research. That’s why we weighed in on the lon...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 12d

The invaluable @sabincenter.bsky.social Climate Litigation Database now combines their U.S. and Global resources into a single, unified platform blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...

Relaunching the Climate Litigation Database: Tracking the Law in a New Era - Climate Law Blog

When lawsuits first began to raise climate change issues in the late 1980s, the cases were rare and experimental, with litigants testing out ways to draw on the growing body of climate science to argu...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 12d

"A warning shot." Judge Scott Schlegel on the Mendones case and what to do now that deepfakes in the courtroom are no longer hypothetical. judgeschlegel.com/blog/what-ha...

What happens when AI deepfakes fool a judge? — Judge Scott Schlegel

We keep hearing about AI “hallucinations.” But the Mendones case out of California may be one of the first major reported cases where a court had to deal directly with deepfake evidence. On Septembe...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 13d

"A generational opportunity to fundamentally expand who has access to justice": Legal aid orgs are adopting AI at twice the rate of the wider legal profession. www.lawnext.com/2025/09/lega...

Legal Aid Organizations Embrace AI at Twice the Rate of Other Lawyers, New Study Reveals

A study examining artificial intelligence adoption in legal aid organizations has revealed that these resource-constrained nonprofits are embracing AI technology at nearly double the rate of the broad...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 14d

New database of domestic case-law on human trafficking released by the Council of Europe (via @bespacific.bsky.social) www.coe.int/en/web/anti-...

Launch of a new database of domestic case-law on human trafficking

HUDOC-GRETA Strasbourg, France 19 September 2025

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 19d

@harvardlil.bsky.social adds over 5 million Smithsonian items to the Public Data Project (via @bespacific.bsky.social) lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/09...

Expanding Our Public Data Project to Include Smithsonian Collections Data | Library Innovation Lab

Smithsonian Institution building, from Wikimedia Commons

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 20d

“This is bonkers.” The controversial new Bluebook rule on citing to AI-generated content: www.lawnext.com/2025/09/new-...

New Bluebook Rule On Citing to AI Generates Criticism from Legal Scholars and Practitioners

Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 21d

In a race against the clock, @lexblog.bsky.social has saved over 220,000 legal blog posts from the impending demise of Typepad. kevin.lexblog.com/2025/09/17/u...

Update On Migration of Typepad Hosted Legal Publishing

Preserving and republishing over 150 endangered legal blogs with hundreds of thousands of blog posts before Typepad closes and deletes alll publishing on September 30.

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 21d

A twist! After finding that 21 of 23 case quotations in the appellant's brief were fabricated (an impressive 91.3% hallucination rate), the court refused to award attorneys' fees because of the opposing counsel's failure to catch the false citations www.lawnext.com/2025/09/a-ne...

A New Wrinkle in AI Hallucination Cases: Lawyers Dinged for Failing to Detect Opponent’s Fake Citations

A new decision from the California Court of Appeals adds an intriguing dimension to the growing body of AI hallucination sanctions cases, raising the question of a lawyer's duty to detect fabricated,....

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 23d

The ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans training Google’s AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 26d

Introducing LawAnswers AI by @lawdroid.bsky.social, a nationwide "intelligent legal information platform" built to address America's access to justice crisis www.lawnext.com/2025/09/lawd...

LawDroid Launches LawAnswers AI Nationwide: Revolutionary Platform Tackles America’s Access to Justice Crisis

Cutting-edge legal information platform aims to bridge the gap for millions of Americans unable to access legal help VANCOUVER, CANADA – September 4, 2025 – LawDroid, a pioneering legal technology c...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 27d

After 21 years and 55,780 posts, TaxProf Blog is ending. Our appreciation to Dean Caron for his decades of contribution to the legal blogosphere. abovethelaw.com/2025/09/good...

Goodbye To A Blogging Pioneer: Reflecting On The TaxProf Blog's Legacy In A Changing Internet Era And Its Influence On One Tax Attorney - Above the Law

After 21 years and 55,780 posts, the TaxProf blog is ending.

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Stephanie Grace @aquarianlibrarian.bsky.social · 29d

How can lawyers keep critical reasoning sharp as AI reshapes research? I explore this idea of “intelligence equilibrium” in a new article: doi.org/10.1080/0270...

Finding Equilibrium: An Integrative Approach to Balancing Human and Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research

The legal profession is changing as generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools become embedded in legal research and practice. While AI tools promise increased efficiency, they also pose risks t...

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 28

"Another day, another legal technology ethics opinion" on how to ensure compliant generative artificial intelligence (GAI) adoption nydailyrecord.com/2025/08/22/a...

Alaska joins the AI ethics conversation

Another day, another legal technology ethics opinion.

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 28

Empirical SCOTUS's @dradamfeldman.bsky.social analyzes the data and reveals the four levers that drive Supreme Court decisions to grant cert. www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/why-...

Why the Supreme Court agrees to hear some cases and not others

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision […]

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 20

Looking to em dashes as the key to AI detection is "like claiming you can identify vampires because they wear black clothes." (by @brianphillips.bsky.social) www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/p...

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please

Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

www.theringer.com

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 18

With no notice, Regulations. gov limits the ability of organizations to collect and submit comments on proposed U.S. regulations. www.404media.co/the-governme...

The Government Just Made it Harder for The Public to Comment on Regulations

A critical piece of tech infrastructure that lets people talk to the government has been disabled.

www.404media.co

Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 18

It's a new dawn in legal technology — but for whom? Bob Ambrogi challenges the legal industry to ensure that AI innovations make legal services more accessible and affordable for all, not just for the legal elites. www.lawnext.com/2025/08/its-...

Famous image of Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane playing at Woodstock. Photo is from the back of the stage, showing the band with the crowd in the background and the clearing sky.

Superimposed text (added): "IT'S A NEW DAWN" (in legal technology)

Image via https://www.instagram.com/p/DHWoQxNzqjU/

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 15

SweetREX Deregulation AI, the DOGE-developed tool that aims to reduce "the time spent reviewing and proposing edited regulations from months to just a few hours or days" (via @volts.wtf) www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation

Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.

www.wired.com

Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 15

"A complete erasure of evidence of environmental racism." @envirodgi.bsky.social report on the hundreds of significant changes to U.S. websites focused on environmental regulation since January. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Trump is outpacing his first term in deleting environmental information

The restriction of language and removal of information makes it harder to address climate issues, say the authors of a new report on environmental information under Trump 2.0.

www.nextgov.com

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 14

New from Josh Kubicki: sure, it's a prompt that tests and sometimes breaks the latest GenAI models, but edit it and let the LLMs give you daily news and regulatory updates in your choice of practice areas thebrainyacts.beehiiv.com/p/266-i-brok...

Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · Aug 12

When an AI chatbot gives three different explanations for the same event: what Grok's suspension tells us about LLM trustworthiness gizmodo.com/elon-musk-ca...

Elon Musk Can't Control His AI

Just weeks after praising Hitler, Elon Musk's AI chatbot was briefly suspended for new violations, the latest in a string of embarrassing and dangerous failures for the platform's supposed verificatio...

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Eric Boo-erg 👻 @lawliberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Made a feed of law profs posting SSRN links so you can follow new law journal articles

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