Join data, news, and survey analysts from Bloomberg Industry Group for an inside look at the latest findings from the Bloomberg Law State of Practice Survey. Discover how lawyers and law librarians are navigating rapid administrative shifts and the evolving role of AI in legal work. Gain data-driven insights into today’s challenges—and opportunities—across the legal landscape.

This webinar explores the latest insights from the Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals Report 2025, and what they mean for the legal information professional community.

The last few months have seen government information removed from the web at an increasing rate. This program will provide attendees with practical tools to locate government information that has been deleted or moved, preserve government information going forward, and advocate for the retention and restoration of government information.

As our government continues to strive to be more transparent in government activities, this program will examine a brief history of Executive Orders that have defined classified information and the methods for the declassification of these documents. As the number of FOIA requests increase, attendees will learn best practices for making FOIA requests and what strategies can be used to expedite access to this information being sought by members of the public.

In this program, we will explore the intersection between ethics, technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and law libraries.

This program will address approaches to historical state statutory research, extra- or non-legal sources that may be consulted in civil rights litigation, and useful strategies for researching historical local government sources. Speakers will recommend strategies to conduct state-focused historical legal research, using Oregon examples

In this program, librarians who have learned to code on the job will share their experiences with coding. You will learn to identify tasks or problems that could be accomplished or solved through coding, how to pick a coding language to best accomplish your goals, and where to find resources to learn to write code.

This panel will tackle misconceptions around GenAI’s accuracy, explaining how these tools can be architected to aid while minimizing the risk of hallucinations or false positives.

Decarcerated individuals often struggle to reintegrate, facing overwhelming barriers, including legal barriers. How can we, as law librarians and community partners, break down the barriers to deliver critical legal resources, educational programs, clinics, and referrals to those seeking a fresh start?

Speakers will provide an overview of the different types of patents, explain how and why patent searches are conducted, and introduce the concepts of prior art, patent classification, and patent families. Attendees will leave this program with knowledge of essential concepts in patent research and the confidence to take on patent research projects.