AALL GenAI Webinar Series Part 3: AI, What is it Good For? Exploring Advanced Applications of Generative AI
Recorded On: 06/04/2024
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Join us for the next level of generative AI prompt engineering. We will delve deeper into more complex use cases, provide valuable tips to ensure reliability and accuracy, and discuss how to become involved in generative AI developments by vendors
TARGET AUDIENCE:
All AALL members will benefit from expanding their knowledge of generative AI and how it is affecting the many facets of the legal profession.
TAKEAWAYS:
- Discuss advanced prompt generative AI techniques and tips to ensure reliability.
- Review unique and complex use cases, including those regarding instruction, scholarly research, corporate transactions, and litigation purposes.
- Recognize and share insights on AI developments by information vendors in the legal industry.
SPEAKERS:
- Rebecca Fordon, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Cindy Guyer, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
- Adam Lederer, Norton Rose Fulbright
COORDINATOR:
- Patrick Parsons, Georgia State University College of Law Library
AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Research + Analysis, Information Management, Teaching + Training
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SPEAKERS

Rebecca Fordon
Rebecca Fordon is a Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She teaches Legal Analysis and Writing I and 21st Century Lawyering and regularly incorporates AI tools into her classes. Prior to law librarianship, Rebecca was a corporate bankruptcy partner at a Boston law firm, where she practiced for 10 years. She frequently speaks on AI and the law and is co-founder of the blog AI Law Librarians.

Cindy Guyer
Cindy Guyer is a Senior Knowledge & Research Analyst with the multinational law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP. She conducts legal and business research to attorneys and staff firmwide. Cindy is a member of the firm’s Knowledge & Research Services AI team, providing instruction and identifying use cases for AI in the practice of law. Before joining the law firm, she worked at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law for 16 years as a Senior Law Librarian and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law.

Adam Lederer
Adam Lederer is a Manager of Research Services at the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. In addition to managing the day to day operation of the Research team he conducts all manner of research in support of all practices at the firm. Adam actively participates in reviews, pilots and workshops of legal AI tools and works closely with the Innovation team. For the past 27 years he has worked for large law firms and has been working or volunteering, in one form or another, in a library since he was 14 years old. If you ask him he will tell you he had nowhere else to go, but in reality there is no place he would rather be.
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