We have all heard great things about legal AI and how it is going to revolutionize legal research, legal drafting, contract analysis, and eDiscovery. We are not really discussing the limitations of the tools, however. For instance, regardless of vendor advertising, no LLM is hallucination-free at this point. Some popular systems also only utilize one jurisdiction at a time, even if there is related federal or state law that may be binding on the prompt issue. This session will look at some of the current limitations and discuss the best way to present them to new AI users.
Rebecca Rich joined the Kline School of Law faculty in 2019. Professor Rich’s research interests include education of students with disabilities, administrative law, bioethics, disability law and technology in legal education and libraries.
Previously, Professor Rich served as senior associate director and interim director of the Panza Maurer Law Library at Nova Southeastern University. Before assuming those leadership roles, she revitalized the library’s faculty liaison program, while serving as faculty services librarian.
At Nova Southeastern, Professor Rich also taught Advanced Legal Research Techniques, developing a structure and curriculum that enhanced writing and experiential learning components including in online synchronous and asynchronous instruction.
She is the author of “Rewritten Opinion: Olmstead v. L.C.,” a chapter in “Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions,” which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2020, as well as several articles in library publications.
A former fellow of the American Association of Law Libraries Leadership Academy and the International Academy of Life Sciences/B. Braun Melsungen Fellowship Biomedical Sciences Exchange Program, Professor Rich holds leadership posts within committees of the AALL and the Southeastern American Association of Law Libraries.
Professor Rich has presented at conferences on an array of topics, including the use of SSRN and BePress’s Digital Commons to promote student-run law journals, trends in European libraries, gamification and the use of technology in research instruction and differential instruction techniques for law students.
She received her JD from Boston College Law School and her MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A native of northeastern Ohio, Professor Wondracek followed her brother to the southern US for her higher education. After law school graduation in 2003, Professor Wondracek worked as a Staff Attorney at North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. In 2006, Professor Wondracek transitioned into law librarianship, beginning her career as a Reference Librarian at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida. Her career took her to Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, NC, the University of Florida School of Law in Gainesville, Florida, and most recently, UNT Dallas College of Law, where she served as the Director of Legal Educational Technology. Professor Wondracek joined Capital University Law School in fall 2020.
