Join AALL and Trellis for an engaging webinar as we share how strategic legal research & analytics enables you to analyze the behavior and history of your judge, competitive counsel, prospects and clients to gain crucial insights into litigation history and ruling tendencies. We’ll show you how to leverage state trial court - and verdict - data to be more efficient, more proactive, and achieve better results for your clients.

Legislative advocacy is essential to making a difference for the legal information profession. This training will teach you skills to advocate for public policy issues. You will learn how to build effective partnerships and influence lawmakers while contributing to solutions for current information policy issues.

This presentation identifies three audiences for whom Tech Services staff can enhance access to information about their library's collections by leveraging the power of their integrated library systems.

Do you have a great program topic in mind for AALL 2024? Join Annual Meeting Program Committee Chair Saskia Mehlhorn and Vice Chair Lisa Goodman for an informal conversation about putting together a fantastic program proposal for next year’s conference.

In the wake of COVID, workplaces have changed. Some workplaces have transitioned to fully remote or hybrid formats, while others have transitioned from remote to wholly in-person for some employees, although not necessarily for all. As we, our users and our patrons, navigate these virtual and hybrid workspaces, how do we stay connected to our colleagues and our patrons? How can we promote our services, resources, and offerings across the three different types of workplaces?

The panel discussion will focus on understanding the barriers and utilizing best practices to better serve incarcerated people, coordinate community efforts between libraries and jails/prisons, and how to get started within our institutions to better serve justice involved patrons and their families to improve access to justice.

At this present time—when expertly-developed legal AI is already handling substantive legal tasks to dramatically increase the efficiency of law firms and legal departments across the country—we need to consider the real-world impact of this generative AI for A2J. But legal AI is not alone. Generic AI tools like ChatGPT continue to enjoy attention from the legal community.

In this panel program, a former Strait Fellow and two law librarians will share their experiences as fellows and mentors, and provide guidance and best practices to institutions seeking to create or expand existing programs.

This program takes a practical focus for how you can position your library as the institution’s memory. Learn how to plan for the materials, tools, and partnerships to best ensure success. Get tips for sharing with stakeholders how the service further cements the importance of the law library within your institution.

In this program, participants will learn from our diverse panel how they managed to produce short and insightful content to reach out to internal and external stakeholders. Through multiple examples, our panelists will explain their process from ideation to implementation and share strategies on how to develop a brief message that can help relate to all audiences.