Founder and CEO, LexBlog, Inc. and The Library at LexBlog, Inc.
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Vals AI, an independent evaluation company that benchmarks how well AI models and products handle professional work in the law, among other areas, and NextLadder Ventures tested 23 AI models on 252 real legal aid questions written by legal aid experts in six states. None reached the 80% bar set for a reliable first stop for someone without a lawyer.
The models explained the law well, meeting 78 to 87% of criteria, but only 30 to 50% when pointing people to specific local help like a legal aid office or court self-help center. Free versions did about as well as paid ones. — Vals AI / @ValsAI and NextLadder Ventures
AI is already explaining the law to people without lawyers. Where it falls short is the local, specific knowledge that gets someone real help. That's the next gap to close - with insight from lawyers - at scale.
vals.ai/benchmarks/a2j
Adobe / @Adobe is opening Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants through MCP, with a private beta in early 2027.
— Matthew Finnegan / @TheMatthewF at Computerworld / @computerworld
More and more people will use the information and applications they rely on inside the AI assistants where they already work, not just in the original application. And they'll get more out of it there, with the power of the AI assistant on top of what the application does alone. Gartner predicts enterprise AI assistants will take up more of knowledge workers' day than any other application within three years.
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Legora names former UK Solicitor General Lucy Frazer KC / @lucyfrazermp to lead its work with governments, regulators and courts, starting in the UK and EMEA. Clio / @goclio, which has former Michigan Chief Justice Bridget McCormack / @BridgetMaryMc and Casetext co-founder Pablo Arredondo / @tweetatpablo leading its judiciary work, is doing the same.
— Caroline Hill / @chillmedia at Legal IT Insider / @LITI_News
What looks to be happening is legal research and AI platforms helping courts with the power of AI. The Library at LexBlog is another example. Through the research platforms courts already use, The Library can bring them the insight of more than a million published works by tens of thousands of legal professionals, each writing in their area of practice. Until now, courts had no practical way to reach that insight.
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The Reuters Institute's new Generative AI and News Report finds about half the public now uses AI chatbots weekly, and 38% used AI to get information in the past week, up from 11% in 2024. People who do are visiting news sites and search engines less. Felix Simon / @FelixSimon, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis and Richard Fletcher in Nieman Lab / @NiemanLab.
AI is becoming the front door to information, and law will be no different. The work lawyers publish needs to be inside these tools, with their names on it, and be viewed as authoritative by the AI tools.
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Congrats. The Library will follow, perhaps on not a grand a scale.
We’re taking the next step in our UK growth.
By the end of the year, our 80+person Manchester team will move into Eden in New Bailey, strengthening our presence in one of Europe’s largest legal markets.
Learn more: bit.ly/4ArJRIo
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With the amount of information flowing through the web, AI is becoming more important, so long as the resources it calls upon in educating itself are reliable.
Google just announced it's giving students free textbooks inside Gemini Notebook, as Carlo Carrenho reports in @pubperspectives. A student picks the books, asks questions, and the answers come from the books with citations. Google is all but acknowledging that AI answers are more reliable when they rest on trusted published works by known authors.
We're doing the same thing for law at The Library at LexBlog, providing authoritative published works of legal professionals to AI. We preserve and structure for citation the published works of legal professionals and deliver them as data to the AI assistants and legal research platforms that people use.
Legal professionals and the public asking a legal question gets a more reliable, as it's resting on the work of credible professionals, with a citation back to the author and the publication.
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One of the reasons for The Library at LexBlog is its persistent identifier(lexpid.org) included in citations, so people can verify what the cited published work actually said.
As reported by @ArtificialLawya, Damien Charlotin (@DamienCharlotin), a lawyer and AI researcher at HEC Paris (@HECParis) and Sciences Po (@sciencespo) who tracks AI hallucination cases worldwide, built a citation checker, PelAIkan, that does more than confirm a cited case exists. It reads the source and checks that it says what the brief or memo claims.
A checker like this needs a permanent source to check against. For case law, that's the official databases. The published works of legal professionals we work with come from all over, including blogs, law firm websites, legal organization websites, white papers et al. Thse sources tend to go away in time, or their URLs get restructured. There's no permanent record to check against until a record and a persistent identifier are established for each published work. That's part of what The Library is for.
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Though you'd think it would be just the opposite, the burden on law librarians, including @aallnet members, has increased with e-books compared to the print books they managed before. A printed book the library owns doesn't expire and can be lent to anyone who walks in, including alumni and local attorneys. An e-book's license decides who can read it, how many at once and for how long. c/o Tamara Rogers on the RIPS Law Librarian Blog. ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.c…
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Salon, one of the first web-only publications, is shutting down after 31 years, as reported by Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy_nu), longtime journalist and journalism professor at Northeastern, who wrote a media column for Salon in the mid-'90s. dankennedy.net/2026/11/06/sa…
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This can be a golden age of investigative journalism. Analyzing filings, records and public data to go deep into a company or government or whatever used to be something that took a team of journalists a long time, so was relatively rare. Now LLMs can 10x investigative research.
.@Harvey has brought Jus Mundi's arbitration research agent inside its platform, with research pinpoint-cited to source documents. It will be available to joint customers at no extra cost by year end.
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We are quickly moving into an all digital world.
The U.S. Copyright Office has digitized 25,238 historical record books from 1870 to 1977, more than 21.7 million images, to be brought into its public records system. via @Steve_Brachmann
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In the first generative AI case to reach the EU's top court, a Hungarian publisher v. Google over Gemini, Advocate General Szpunar said real-time retrieval of press articles in chatbot answers may infringe press publishers' rights. The opinion is non-binding.
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Newstex/@newstex, which licenses content from more than 1,600 publications, will make it available to AI applications through Cashmere's license-gated system. Cashmere already carries Wiley, Harvard Business Publishing and Princeton University Press.
People will read where they are.
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Tesla Is Ending Production of Its Cybertruck and Refocusing on the Cybercab.
Maybe they could get the existing ones off the road while they are at it.
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As required for every Oregon County, Benton County has a Free Law Library, and it’s open the public. ℅ @TheCorvAdvocate
Why not a common body of free law, including the published works of legal professionals preserved, structured and made available anywhere via AI?
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From @davewiner: “BTW, I have been writing on Twitter the way I used to write on my blog. Paragraph after paragraph, and I go on, but I do eventually re-read it and it has the energy I haven't had in a long time.”
Ditto for me.
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Will law firm partners need to change their professional identity, their sense of what they are and what they really do, for this sector to fully embrace AI?
From @ArtificialLawya: “One of the keynote speakers at ClioCon last week was writer and modern philosopher Malcolm Gladwell, who unveiled a brilliant analysis of why people can’t accept new ideas – and in particular if those ideas mean a change to their sense of professional self.
To explain his point, Gladwell explored medical and policing innovations that could make a massive positive difference, then showed how those ideas were largely ignored by surgeons and senior police officers primarily because it meant those in powerful positions would have to alter their role in the workplace. He also looked at how LSAT exams in the US made no sense, but let’s focus on the professional examples for now and how they map onto what partners do.”
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