Law Librarianship in the Age of AI

by Ellyssa Kroski

Overview

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowledge engineer." And some in the field are already taking a proactive approach ⁠-- in fact, more than two dozen law schools have developed innovation centers to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and the law. In a competitive marketplace, both firms and individuals need to familiarize themselves with the dazzling array of new products and enhanced features capable of improving efficiency. Written by leading practitioners and visionaries like Robert Ambrogi, this groundbreaking survey of current practices and future trends offers an incisive examination of the evolving roles for law librarians. Readers will learn how AI technology is changing law school curricula, lawyer practice, marketing, and other key aspects of the field through coverage of such topics as

• the benefits of AI to law librarianship, including areas like legal research, contract review, compliance, and administration, and their associated risks;
• four professional ethics rules that apply to the use or (non-use) of AI;
• how lawyers and staff work side by side with AI, utilizing intelligence like RAVN ACE or FastCase to attack the drudgery of due diligence and document review;
• surprising machine-learning insights from tokenizing, stemming, and lemmatizing the text of Shakespeare's plays;
• the potential for chatbots and new natural language processing products to improve access to justice; and
• ways to develop sought-after skills through new technology departments, practice management groups, and legal innovation labs.

Reading this collection will give you a firm grasp of the innovations, tools, benefits, and risks of AI in law librarianship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838946275
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	11/04/2019
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ellyssa Kroski is the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 60 books including Law Librarianship in the Age of AI for which she won the AALL's 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Drexel and San Jose State Universities, and an international conference speaker. She received the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the ALA/LITA for her long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. She can be found at http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction, Jean O'Grady

Chapter 1 AI Defined: Core Concepts Necessary for the Savvy Law Librarian
Casandra M. Laskowski

Chapter 2 What Machine Learning Can Tell Us About Shakespeare
Erik Y. Adams

Chapter 3 Types of AI Tools in Law
Heidi W. Heller

Chapter 4 AI Tools and Applications
Chris Laut

Chapter 5 Law Libraries Embracing AI
Valeri Craigle

Chapter 6 Opportunities for Law Librarians
Grace Boivin

Chapter 7 AI and Legal Research
Jamie J. Baker

Chapter 8 AI in Legal Education
Theresa Tarves

Chapter 9 Access to Justice in the Age of AI
Tawnya K. Plumb

Chapter 10 Benefits, Drawbacks, and Risks of AI
James M. Donovan

Chapter 11 Ethics in the Use of AI: A Lawyer’s Perspective
Scott Bailey, Huu Nguyen, Saskia Mehlhorn, Steve Lastres, Steve Delchin, and Janine Cerny

Chapter 12 The Future of AI in Law Libraries
Robert J. Ambrogi

Chapter 13 AI Resources
Virginia A. Neisler

Index