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The article reports on the upgrades to the no-cost Missouri Bar legal research member benefit launched by vLex Fastcase, a legal research platform. Among the upgrades offered to members are the Cert citator or combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and a human editorial review of citations, Vincent AI platform for creation of headnotes for judicial opinions and finding references, streamlined design, and access to up-to-date judicial opinions, statutes and regulations.

The article discusses use of artificial-intelligence (AI) tools by lawyers in the delivery of legal services. Topics include use of AI for legal research, drafting, contract management, and litigation strategy, the ethical responsibilities of lawyers, violation of unauthorized practice of law (UPL), and American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

A controlled case study was conducted of effects of EEG alpha and theta brainwave training with a recovering alcoholic patient who experienced craving and fear of relapse after 18 months of abstinence. Training consisted of six sessions of thermal biofeedback to increase central nervous system (CNS) relaxation. Effects were documented with pretreatment and post-treatment personality testing, 20-channel digitized EEG evaluations both under relaxed conditions and under stress, minute-by-minute physiologic recordings of autonomic and EEG data during each training session, blood pressure, and heart rate indications taken both during relaxation and under stress, and by clinical observation. Results replicated those of a previous controlled study with chronic alcoholic patients not abstinent prior to treatment. New findings include post-treatment indications of more relaxed CNS functioning under stress, and of reduced autonomic activation both during relaxation and under stress. Brain-mapping indications of anxiety associated with painful cold-pressor stimulation were seen only in the pretest readings; at post-test the brain map indicated pain-associated EEG activity in the contralateral somatosensory area, but no apparent anxiety-associated EEG activity. At 4 months post-treatment the patient's wife and colleagues report the patient appears to function in a more relaxed way under the impact of stress, and he reports no longer experiencing craving for alcohol. Overall, support is provided for the possibility that alpha and theta brainwave training may be a useful intervention for the abstinent alcoholic experiencing stress-related craving and fear of relapse.