• Richmond Magazine conversation with Dennis Clark

• How a bill becomes law (General Assembly website)

• Power Point presentation slides by Reynolds Hutchins

• Read about Tyler Layne and Alice Minium

• Who was Laurence E. Richardson? In addition to a having a citizen open-government award named after him, this VCOG founding board member is also the namesake for our annual legal fellowship for rising second-year law students.

• Petition For Injunction Or Mandamus Freedom Of Information Act And Affidavit For Good Cause Or Protection Of Social Security Numbers Act

Sample filings

Commonwealth v. Pearson

• Memo in support of the Daily Press' motion to intervene and for access

• Two notices of appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia: One from the Daily Press, and one from Newport News

• Circuit court order and opinion

• Supreme Court opinion, annotated

Wahlstrom v. Suffolk School Board

• Plaintiff's verified complaint

• Defendant's demurrer to the verified complaint

• Supreme Court opinion, annotated

• Power Point presentation slides by Amanda Kastl

• Presentation slides by Bruce Potter

Technology overview

• What are text embeddings?

• What is semantic search?

• An Overview of LLMs and General Applications

• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Used in most current chatbots / Q&A systems

AI in practice

• Casetext used early access to GPT4 to build a product eventually acquired by Thompson-Reuters for $650 million

• US Department of State reported on three separate pilots of AI tools in the FOIA process, one showing that automated review results in many false positives for redaction

• Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project uses AI tools to increase public access to archival court records

• Increasing case law access may be leading to a legal research boom

• Oops, Air Canada found liable for its chatbot’s bad advice to a grieving grandson

• Google Gemini generated racially-diverse Nazi soldiers, falling into the same issue as Dall-e did in 2022 while trying to account for bias in the model

Deep dives on current problems (academic papers)

• Survey on Hallucinations

• Bias in LLMs

• Alignment and Safety