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In this 2025 webinar, Catherine Sanders Reach introduces the emerging class of AI notebook tools and explains how they can serve knowledge‑management needs in law firms. She defines an AI notebook as a curated collection of sources (documents, websites, audio/video) that an LLM can reference to answer questions, generate summaries, outlines, podcasts, videos, mind maps, and other deliverables. The session surveys the market, focusing on Google Notebook LM (free tier, Google One AI Premium, and Workspace Pro) and Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks, comparing pricing, source limits, collaboration features, and privacy implications. Catherine walks through a live Google Notebook LM demo: creating a notebook, uploading PDFs, URLs, and MP3s, configuring source limits, prompting the model for audio overviews, video overviews, reports, mind maps, and notes, and sharing the notebook with collaborators. She highlights legal and confidentiality risks of using free tiers, emphasizing that feedback may be reviewed by humans and that confidential client data should be kept out of free services. Brief mentions of alternative products (Perplexity Spaces, Zoho Notebook, Open Notebook, Kindle Scribe, etc.) illustrate the crowded landscape and cost trade‑offs. The Q&A segment addresses notebook organization, handling overlapping source material, and the depth of website crawling. The webinar concludes with recommendations for law firms to adopt paid, secure versions for client‑related work and to treat AI notebooks as a supplement to, not a replacement for, traditional legal research workflows.

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