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Liz Grennan, Partner and Global Co-Leader of Digital Trust at McKinsey & Co., speaks with Bill Tanenbaum about how companies are deciding on Generative AI use cases, as well as the need for lawyers and technology departments to learn new ways to collaborate in order to successfully blend existing compliance practices with the new issues raised by AI.

Bill Tanenbaum and Robert (Bob) Seiner, the President of KIK Consulting and Educational Services, talk about how data does not manage itself, and explain the discipline of data governance to a legal audience.

Steve Ardire, an AI startup advisor, talks with Bill Tanenbaum about health care AI in the context of startup healthcare companies. Steve addresses the health care use cases on both the business and medical sides that he sees in the near future, and also speaks about “AI readiness.”

Bill Tanenbaum and Danny Ertel, a Founding Partner and Director of Vantage Partners, a consulting firm, compare and contrast business transformation using AI with prior business transformation technologies.

Anthony Algmin, a leading data professional and author, and Bill Tanenbaum discuss how data professionals work with lawyers, the role of data (including metadata) in Generative AI, and how the value of data depends on the context in which it is used.

Bill Tanenbaum and Greg Silberman of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton discuss the privacy risks arising from Generative AI, increased malware attacks, and privacy regulatory regimes as applied to AI.

Dr. Yauheni Solad, Vice President of Innovation at UC Davis Health and a leading Digital Health expert, discusses AI in health care with Bill Tanenbaum.

Bill Tanenbaum and Ameen Haddad, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Oracle America, discuss how advanced AI and AI governance can improve the function of legal departments in large corporations.

Jon Lightman, the Lead of the Americas Banking and Finance Service of advisory firm ISG, sits down with Bill Tanenbaum to discuss the evolving role of AI in business transformation and outsourcing.

Karen Silverman, CEO of Cantellus Group and a former partner at Latham & Watkins, and Bill Tanenbaum consider solutions to the challenges facing corporate Boards of Directors and the C-Suite as they integrate AI into their business.

Bill Tanenbaum and Amir Ghavi of Fried Frank discuss the different types of open and vendor-provided Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they work, and what “fine-tuning” a model means.

Bill Tanenbaum and Suneil Thomas, Managing Counsel at Google Cloud AI, discuss the evolution of AI from Machine Learning (a type of Non-Generative AI) and Siri and Alexa to today’s Generative AI, and offer predictions about the next evolutionary step in Generative AI.

William A. Tanenbaum is a technology and IP partner and Leader of the AI & Data Law Practice at Moses & Singer in New York.

As the newly appointed Law Library Manager at the U.S. Court of International Trade, Taryn Rucinski brings a decade of experience as a librarian in the U.S. federal court system as well as leadership in professional organizations. Hear her observations on why print still has a role to play in legal research and records, how she overcame personal and profession-wide challenges during the COVID pandemic as president of the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY), and her advocacy for those with visible and invisible disabilities.

Before becoming Director of Research Training and Engagement for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Michael Saint-Onge spent nearly two decades in library relations at LexisNexis. He shares his perspectives from this role — as well as his thoughts on librarians as knowledge managers.

Donna Nixon has many responsibilities in her roles as Electronic Resources Librarian and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Listen to her conversation with Karen Oesterle about her work curating the school’s archives, digitizing critical historical documents for accessibility, and her research and law review article on integration at UNC-Chapel Hill.

In this episode, hear from Miriam Childs, Director of the Law Library of Louisiana in New Orleans, about meeting patrons’ needs in her state’s complex court library system, the limitations of AI, and her work on connecting Spanish speakers in the New Orleans area with essential legal information.

Alison Alifano, Manager of Library and Research at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC in Vermont, shares her perspectives from working in three very different library environments. She tells Karen Oesterle about her ongoing work on digitizing resources, including what she learned from introducing online resources at the New York County Lawyers Association.

In this episode of the Practising Law Librarian podcast, host Karen Oesterle catches up with one of her mentors, Loretta Orndorff, who recently retired after more than two decades at Cozen O’Connor. Loretta discusses her “zig-zag path to librarianship,” changes she’s observed over the course of her long career, her work on an important salary survey for #lawlibrarians, and more.

Hear why Andre Davison, Director of the Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library in Houston and AALL Executive Board member, says he’s most proud of his Seamless Access to Secondary Sources project, which allows attorneys to easily access materials – and how this reflects his commitment to creating connections, professionally and personally.

Susan Ryan, librarian in the Washington, DC office of Seyfarth Shaw, says that “all librarians are teachers.” She shares how she developed the idea for a blog on marijuana law and discusses other learning resources she has developed on topics such as conducting cost-effective research and skills for new associates.

Scott Bailey, Director of Research & Knowledge Services at Eversheds Sutherland, shares how collaborating with a creative, open mind — and applying improv skills from his “theater kid” background — helps him and his team build value at their firm and beyond.

Award-winning editor and author Ellyssa Valenti Kroski, Director of Innovation & Engagement at the New York Law Institute, shares how she pursues work-life balance while working remotely from a rural homestead, how her commitment to repurposing knowledge led her to connect escape rooms and libraries, and more.

Harris Crooks’ background in finance — and affinity for “assisting attorneys with weird and bizarre questions” — have led him to interesting roles at Stroock, where he serves as Director of Knowledge & Resource Services, and before that, at Skadden. Hear about his career path and advice for law librarians in the latest episode of the Practising Law Librarian

Becky Katz’s lifelong commitment to serving those in need led her to found JusticeAccess, a free online law library for Washington, D.C. residents who need a law library but lack access to one. Among the library’s long-term plans is providing training to non-librarians so they can learn to do legal research and show others how to find the answers they need.

Elaine Knecht is not only the sole librarian for the 300-attorney firm Barclay Damon in New York — she is also a trained musician, opera singer, school librarian, and public radio classical music program host. In this episode, we explore the connections between music, mathematics, logic, and legal research with Elaine, and discuss her Summer Associate Research Academy and growing library of five-minute training videos on all matters library related.

As Head of Research Instruction and a reference librarian at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Olivia Smith Schlinck has some unique insights on Generation Z law students. She joins us to talk about her article “OK, Zoomer: Teaching Legal Research to Gen Z,” recently published in AALL’s Law Library Journal, as well as her tools for teaching introductory and advanced legal research at Columbia Law and Cardozo.

Cornell H. Winston is the Law Librarian and Records Center Supervisor for the United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, as well as the incoming Vice President/President-Elect of AALL. He talks about his career path from student worker at the Harbor-UCLA medical library, to circulation clerk at Whittier Law, to library roles at law firms, to his current home at the Department of Justice. Hear about the “11th Commandment” he applies to every class or presentation he leads, as well as a discussion about the enormous increase in the complexity and breadth of legal research today.

Karen Oesterle is Associate Director, Legal Research Development at Practising Law Institute in New York.