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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-...

lawnext.comThe Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America’s Immigration Surveillance MachineFor 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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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]

smithsonianmag.comTypos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631A 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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🤖 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...

aspendigital.orgDefining Technologies of Our Time - Aspen DigitalThis 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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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...

ailawlibrarians.comCan’t Stop, Won’t Stop: One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools - AI Law LibrariansSomewhere 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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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...

ailawlibrarians.comWhat the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research - AI Law LibrariansThis 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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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...

phys.orgNew database reveals how Americans use waterWater 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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"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...

lawnext.comAnthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech IncumbentsTo 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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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...

propublica.orgGovernment by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial IntelligenceThe 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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EPA removes at least 80 webpages related to climate change, its impacts, and its causes.

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The EPA has purged its website of information about the indicators and impacts of climate change. These changes constitute, by far, the most extensive removal of climate change information from the EPA’s website during this administration. envirodatagov.org/epa-scrubs-i...

envirodatagov.orgEPA Scrubs Information About Climate Change Indicators and Impacts – Environmental Data and Governance InitiativeThe Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis (CIRA) page on December 3, 2025 (left), and December 5, 2025 (right), after it was […]
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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...

ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.comGuest 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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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...

taxprofblog.aals.orgFurlong, Glassmeyer: Lawyering in the AI Era • TaxProf BlogWhat 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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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...

slaw.caDeceptive Dynamics of Generative AI: Beyond the “First-Year Associate” Framing - SlawGuidance 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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"A turning point for the entire legal profession and for everyone whom that profession serves." www.lawnext.com/2025/10/to-a...

lawnext.comTo A Sometimes ‘Shell-Shocked’ ClioCon Audience, Jack Newton Presented Clio’s Vision for a New Era of AI-Driven Legal WorkHave 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....