LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns
- The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly diminish future research efforts both in America and in collaborative efforts abroad.
- Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions like the mechanically separated chicken parts that go into chicken nuggets. Part 2 highlights how research used to encompass finding sources, evaluating them, synthesizing insights across multiple authorities, and reaching conclusions based on that synthesis.
- Drone Resources 2025 – This article by Marcus P. Zillman includes links to a range of guides for current and future drone pilots interested in photography, medicine, civil security, real estate, and e-commerce, and also includes product reviews and buying guides.
- The Grief You Can’t Name – How Change and Transformation Influence You – When organizations ask people to change how they work, they’re not just asking them to learn new procedures. They’re asking them to grieve what made them valuable, release what gave them pride, and trust that something on the other side of that loss will be worth it. Kevin Novak describes how organizations pour billions into change management while ignoring the psychological truth underneath: regardless of the situation, when confronted with organizational change, humans go through the same grief cycle first identified by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
- The Law Firm Pyramid Rollover – Heather Suttie addresses how artificial intelligence, pricing, and transience of the legal service sector’s workforce will cause the traditional law firm pyramid structure to rollover like an upending iceberg. The result? By 2030, global legal services will operate much differently than they do now.
- The Imminent AI Bubble Crash (and Why It Won’t Matter in the Long Run) – This article by Jerry Lawson article examines why today’s AI boom resembles the dot-com bubble—soaring valuations, unprofitable companies, copy-cat entrants, and heavy speculation driven in part by infrastructure providers themselves.
- All government shutdowns disrupt science − in 2025, the consequences extend far beyond a lapse in funding – The government shutdown will continue until Congress can pass a bill reopening it. U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home without pay. Federal agencies suspend new grant opportunities, place expert review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analyzing critical public datasets that tell.
- AI In Finance and Banking, November 15 and November 30, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. By Pete Weiss
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