Category «Legal Research»

State of Antisemitism in America Report 2025

“According to the latest annual State of Antisemitism in America Report released by American Jewish Committee (AJC) on February 10, 2026, a majority of American Jews believe antisemitism has become a “very serious” problem at home. Protests like that one in November seem to illustrate some of the reasons why. This year’s survey revealed roughly …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Legal Research, Social Media

Claude Meets Westlaw and Lexis

Seth Chandler – “Something remarkable has happened in the last few months, and most of the legal academy has not noticed. Anthropic’s Claude—the AI assistant many of us have experimented with for drafting, brainstorming, and analysis—can now directly control a web browser. That means Claude can log into Westlaw or Lexis, run searches, read cases, …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Trump showed off a classified map during a 2022 plane trip, letter from Democratic lawmaker alleges

Scott McFarlane/AP – Memos, documents released under GOP-led Arctic Frost probe raise new questions about Mar-a-Lago classified records case. In an inquiry released this morning, the ranking member of the US House Judiciary Committee alleges the investigation into then-ex-President Trump’s retention of classified records at Mar-a-Lago found possible evidence Trump showed a classified map to …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research

EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare’s AI Experiment

EFF – Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors’ Care: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state program that is using AI to evaluate requests for medical care. “Tasking an …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

How to find data

How to find and vet credible data sources you can use right away – NICAR 2026 meeting – Slide Deck by Stephanie Lamm, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Greg Morton, Baltimore Banner; Sean Mussenden, University of Maryland. A new source I learned about via this presentation – WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for …

Subjects: E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

404 Media no paywall: “WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

The AI Law Professor – AI make lawyers work more not less

Thomson Reuters, tom Martin – “At every legal technology conference, the same promise rings out: AI will automate the drudgery so lawyers can focus on what really matters. While it’s a seductive vision, it’s also contradicted by the best research we have on what actually happens when knowledge workers adopt these tools. Key points: The …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

New Research: Think Tank Funding Tracker Provides Insight into Cheerleading of Iran War

Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft: “Top think tanks received over $25 million from foreign governments and $7 million from Pentagon contractors in 2024, according to the newly updated Think Tank Funding Tracker released today.  Both figures, drawn from the most recently available donor rolls, are conservative estimates, as about 40% of think tanks do not …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

ProPublica: “In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica. Or, as …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Report: the morale of federal employees is terrible. That is not good if you want quality weather information

Alan Gerard from Balanced Weather – “Over the weekend, there was a lot of talk on social media about the results from the 2025 version of the annual survey of federal employees done by the Partnership for Public Service about their workplace and the quality of services they feel their agency is providing to the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Judge rules Pentagon press policy unconstitutional in case brought by NYT

The Wrap – New York Times Reporters to Return to Pentagon Monday. The paper’s journalists are expected to regain access Monday after a federal judge ruled that the Defense Department’s press policy is unconstitutional Washington Post – Pentagon will move press to external ‘annex’ following court loss over restricted access. The Department of Defense said …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research