Taryn Marks will provide an opening keynote on the history and future of legal research. Taryn serves as the Associate Director of Research & Instructional Services at the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School. She has previously worked as a librarian at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, a fellow at the University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library, a clerk on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and a special prosecutor in Decatur, GA. She earned her M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington, and both her J.D. and LL.M. in International Law from Duke University School of Law.

Cas Laskowski will provide the closing lecture on the future of legal research. Cas is a veteran, librarian, gamer, teacher, Latina, techie, comic book nerd, and empiricist in perpetual beta. Currently the Head of Research, Data, & Instruction at the University of Arizona, she leverages her various skillsets to bolster faculty scholarship and train legal changemakers. She regularly writes and presents about the impact of technology on libraries and legal practice, and was a founding fellow of the IDEA Institute on AI. Her areas of interest include legal data infrastructures, A2J, ethical use of AI, and co-collaborative pedagogy that empower learners.

Erik Adams is the Manager of Library Digital Initiatives at Sidley Austin and Chief of Technology of Golden Arrow Publishing. He has more than 20 years’ experience working in law firms and high-tech startups. He contributed a chapter to the book “Law Librarianship in the Age of AI” and is co-author of the recent AALL Spectrum article “DIY Analytics: Beyond Excel”. He is a dot com survivor, having worked for several years at the kinds of companies that had a foosball table in the break room. He received his Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA back when gopher was more popular than www.

Sangeeta Pal is the Access Services Librarian at the UCLA Law Library.  She has been working at UCLA for more than twenty years first as a Library Assistant and later as a Project Manager.  She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies, both from UCLA.  Her professional interests include improving information access; collaboration within the Law School Community; and outreach/engagement efforts to law students.  Sangeeta has been a member of SCALL for eight years.  She currently is the co-chair of the Inner City Youth Internship Program Committee and serves on the SCALL Executive Board as the Treasurer.

Ryan Metheny is Managing Librarian, Legal Education, at LA Law Library, where he develops and oversees educational programming for attorneys, professionals, and self-represented litigants. He also oversees the Library’s Members Program for attorneys, provides legal research assistance to the public, and supervises the Library’s law student interns. He is the author of several articles and chapters, including “Improving Lives by Building Social Capital: A New Way to Frame the Work of Law Libraries,” LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 109:4 [2017-28], and “Public Education, Programs, & Access to Justice at the Law Library” in Introduction to Law Librarianship (https://lawlibrarianship.pressbooks.com/). Ryan is a graduate of the University of Washington MLIS-Law Librarianship program, and UCLA School of Law.