WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. This virtual event goes beyond the hype to focus on how AI is actually being used in law libraries and legal information settings today. Designed for professionals who understand the value of AI as a tool, this program offers a practical, experience-driven look at how colleagues are integrating AI into their daily work—what’s working, what’s not, and where the greatest impact is being realized.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. This two-day virtual event goes beyond the hype to focus on how AI is actually being used in law libraries and legal information settings today. Designed for professionals who understand the value of AI as a tool, this program offers a practical, experience-driven look at how colleagues are integrating AI into their daily work—what’s working, what’s not, and where the greatest impact is being realized.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. This virtual event goes beyond the hype to focus on how AI is actually being used in law libraries and legal information settings today. Designed for professionals who understand the value of AI as a tool, this program offers a practical, experience-driven look at how colleagues are integrating AI into their daily work—what’s working, what’s not, and where the greatest impact is being realized.

This panel will explore how legal information professionals, advocates, and courts can identify and respond to AI-driven abuses in filings, and how legal education must evolve to prepare new attorneys for practice in this high-stakes environment. Attendees will learn concrete strategies, emerging detection tools, and pedagogical approaches for integrating AI literacy and ethics into the curriculum.

This program will explore the tools, techniques, and best practices needed to create accurate, engaging, and insightful profiles of individuals and organizations. Participants will learn how to evaluate and leverage free GenAI resources while recognizing and avoiding the pitfalls and inaccuracies that often accompany free generative AI databases.

Our panel will explore how you can highlight your central role in driving organizational success, mitigating risk, and guiding safe technology adoption, leaving you with actionable storytelling techniques to confidently showcase your library's impact and continue steering your organization's strategic vision.

This program offers a practical comparison of popular tracking tools—including ResearchMonitor, OneLog, vendor-provided usage data, and manual methods used by small firms. This program explores how each tool captures usage, what types of insights they offer, and how to evaluate their reliability.

This presentation will (1) investigate the history and status of the public’s “right to know” as a political and Constitutional matter, (2) survey the complex landscape of federal information dissemination, and (3) critically examine multiple fronts upon which access to federal government information is endangered.

In this program, we will explore using familiar and lesser-known public records to dig into private companies. We will also examine how to make the most of records you find to help identify useful information in a variety of contexts such as competitive intelligence, counter-party research, due diligence, or vetting vendors, among other use cases.

"Where does my tax money go?" "What was the 'One Big Beautiful Bill?'" "Why are there both a House Budget Committee and a House Appropriations Committee?" "What is the difference between entitlements and the discretionary budget?" "How can the federal government shut down?" These are just some of the questions that will be answered in this presentation focusing on researching the legislative history and agency appropriations in the annual federal budget appropriations process under the Congressional Budget Act