About

I’m Rebecca Fordon. Before I was a librarian I practiced as a corporate bankruptcy attorney, which is where I first got interested in how technology changes legal work.

I teach legal research, legal writing, and legal technology, and I speak often on generative AI in the law. Much of my writing since 2023 has been about one question: if AI can make things up, how should lawyers, students, and librarians work with it? That led to essays on hallucinations and retrieval-augmented generation, to classroom experiments, and eventually to building my own small tools, most of them over evenings and weekends.

Since 2023, I've been writing at AI Law Librarians, a group blog I co-founded with fellow law librarians. My posts from that site are republished here with their original dates, and new ones are added as they appear.

Organizing an event? My speaker bio comes in several lengths, ready to copy.

A note on affiliation

This is a personal site. Some of the tools I describe were built for courses. Opinions here, including reviews of research products, are mine and not my employer's.