Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
From DSC:
This verse especially caught my eye as we have severe access to justice issues here in the United States.
On 01/17/2022,
in Access to Justice (A2J), ethics, faith, law schools, legal reform, legislatures / government / legal, policy, relationships, religion, society, sociology, United States,
by Daniel Christian
On 12/21/2021,
in 21st century, Access to Justice (A2J), Legal operations, legal reform, legislatures / government / legal, policy, United States,
by Daniel Christian
California Lawmakers Ignore Data in Calls to Restrict the Expansion of Legal Services — from iaals.du.edu
Excerpt:
Earlier this week, two California lawmakers spoke up about these issues. Cheryl Miller, writing for Law.com’s The Recorder, reports: “The chairs of California’s two legislative judiciary committees this week accused the state bar of ‘divert[ing] its attention from its core mission of protecting the public’ by pursuing proposals to allow nonlawyers to offer a limited range of legal services.”
California Supreme Court Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye called the criticism “not surprising,” and we would agree. After all, it is the same message we’ve heard time and again from opponents to any real, impactful change within the legal profession. And the assumptions underlying that message have been discredited by our organization and many other scholars, researchers, and even regulators in other countries. So it is frustrating just how widespread and misleading opponent claims can be.
In response to CA Judiciary letter’s concern about encouraging legal innovation, Professor David Engstrom, CLP’s Lucy Ricca, former LSC President Jim Sandman, Prof. Rebecca Sandefur and others: The A2J crisis is “too urgent to put on the back burner.” https://t.co/Uzo6lej0ti
— SLS Legal Profession (@StanfordCLP) December 17, 2021
Professor @DavidEngstrom5, co-director of @StanfordCLP, discusses the urgent access-to-justice crisis currently gripping CA and the CA State Bar’s Closing the Justice Gap working group. https://t.co/zpbPlwBIhO
— StanfordLaw (@StanfordLaw) December 17, 2021
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The following items are from a recent presentation by Zach Abramowitz entitled “Legal Disruption: Key Trends to Watch in 2022.” By the way, you can sign up for Zach’s legal newsletter at zachabramowitz.substack.com/
Darrow raises $20 million to uncover corporate legal violations and bring justice to all — from calcalistech.com by Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup is focused on locating violations that have caused damage to millions of people on average – the threshold for a potential class-action lawsuit
Excerpt:
Darrow has developed a machine learning-based platform which discovers legal violations by some of the biggest corporations in the world. Operating chiefly in the U.S., the company is focused on locating violations that have caused damage to millions of people on average – the threshold for a potential class-action lawsuit.
On 12/09/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Michigan Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack on the Transformative Possibilities of this Moment — from law.upenn.edu with Michigan Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack
Excerpt:
Bridget Mary McCormack is Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and is a leading voice on modernizing court systems to expand access to justice and deepen public confidence in legal systems.
On this episode, she joins us to share her thoughts on how courts can learn from the experiences COVID-19 has created to better serve the public in a post-pandemic world. She also shares her views on how regulatory reform can transform legal services and why improving legal systems matters for the entire American experiment.
Addendum on 12/13/21:
Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings — from legaltechmonitor.com by Bob Ambrogi
An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods.
On 12/09/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
2022 Predictions – The Market View: Part 1 — from artificiallawyer.com
Excerpt:
What do people want to see happen in 2022? And what do they think will really take place next year? These were the two questions Artificial Lawyer asked a range of legal tech experts from across the market. The quality of responses was so good, and the views expressed so detailed, that this year the 2022 Predictions will be published in two instalments.
Here we go…
We would like to see states across the U.S. tear down regulatory barriers to innovation in legal services. We would like to see human-centred design thinking at the heart of every product, process, and service. We would like to see our community – from law schools to tech companies – advance the cause of access to justice.
On 11/15/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Excerpt from “Use of digital technologies in judicial reform and access to justice cooperation — from HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
On 11/11/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
#GSWhatIf students, not just law students, could pursue their passion for change in a way that led to more people, in more places, having access to justice?#A2J #justice #lawschools #legaleducation #innovation https://t.co/vly9TSWa8U
W/ thanks to @fpi_pennlaw for the resource
— Daniel Christian (he/him/his) (@dchristian5) November 11, 2021
EPISODE 91: THE INNOVATION4JUSTICE LAB – CREATING CHANGE THROUGH LEGAL EDUCATION AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION — from https://www.cli.collaw.com/
We often think about legal innovation and legal education as being separate and distinct but, what if they weren’t? What if students, not just law students, could pursue their passion for change in a way that led to more people, in more places, having access to justice?
That’s the question that the Innovation4Justice (I4J) Lab asked and is answering today.
On 11/08/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
“Bloomberg Law 2022” Releases Today – Explores Future of Legal Industry and Practice Trends — from legaltechmonitor.com by Jean O’Grady
Excerpt:
BLOOMBERG LAW 2022 SERIES EXPLORES KEY LEGAL TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE YEAR TO COME
Arlington, Va. (November 1, 2021) — Bloomberg Law today announced the availability of its Bloomberg Law 2022 series, its exploration of key issues across four major topic areas – Litigation, Transactions & Contracts, Regulatory & Compliance, and The Future of the Legal Industry – that will shape the legal market in the coming year. The full series, which is issued annually and features 25 articles from Bloomberg Law’s team of legal analysts, is available on a complimentary basis at http://onb-law.com/tXw850GAeS4.
Topic area coverage includes:
- Litigation: Developments that will shape the course of litigation in 2022 are examined, ranging from Covid-related employment and contractual issues to emerging trends in antitrust cases and bankruptcy filings.
- Regulatory & Compliance: Learn how a heightened enforcement environment will impact everything from return-to-office mandates to privacy and tech industry regulation to potential actions by the SEC and Congress on cryptocurrency.
- Transactions & Contracts: Take a look at the forces shaping the transactional landscape and key markets of interest, from trends in M&A and IPOs to the nuanced impacts of new data security laws on contract language.
- The Future of the Legal Industry: Hot topics such as diversity & inclusion and attorney well-being and the rapidly expanding areas of law such as legal operations and litigation finance are analyzed.
Also see:
- Friday, 3 December, 2021 #SoLI2021 | FUTURES FREQUENCY | Via Zoom (so everywhere + anywhere)
Futures Frequency* is a future-focused workshop designed to expose and challenge our assumptions about the future of work in the legal profession and how we shape it. And empower us to act now to imagine and ideate the future we wish to see. - CLE is Broken (as is our approach to learning/innovation) — from geeklawblog.com by Casey Flaherty
I am getting CLE right now. While typing these words, a CLE audio file is playing in the background on mute. I felt compelled to acquire hard evidence before launching into a tirade. What’s missing from the advertisement is any suggestion I might learn. No mention of quality or relevance. Rather, the repeated, bolded promise of “no final exam” struck me as an assurance there would be no requirement I pay attention—i.e., I could avoid learning anything at all. A promise made; a promise kept. - The Paths of the Pandemic: Courts Must Continue to Innovate and Learn from Rapid Changes — from legaltechmonitor.com by Brittany Kauffman and Brooke Meyer
Moving forward, the pandemic will have lasting implications for our justice system. The immediate focus on keeping the doors of justice open will inevitably shift to growing case backlogs, reduced funding, increased demand for low-cost legal assistance, inequities in access, and deepening concerns regarding public trust and confidence. Our justice system must be ready, but how do we create paths forward to achieve justice for all?
- Everlaw Becomes Legal Tech’s Latest Unicorn, with $202M Raise at $2B Valuation — from lawsitesblog.com by Bob Ambrogi
- On LawNext: Tech Edge J.D. Director Laura Norris On Giving Law Grads A Competitive Edge in Tech Careers — from lawsitesblog.com by Bob Ambrogi
- Emerging Legal Technology Trends in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East — from jdupra.com
- Tech Tools that Transform: Modernize your Legal Practice — from jdupra.com
On 11/04/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Courts 2021 AWARD WINNER || American Legal Technology Awards 2021https://t.co/9GD2IhdwBS#legaltech #legal #A2J #society #emergingtechnologies #courts #Court #AccessToJustice
— Daniel Christian (he/him/his) (@dchristian5) November 4, 2021
On 10/13/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
Legal Technology: Why the Legal Tech Boom is Just Getting Started — from nasdaq.com by Casey Flaherty and Jae Um of LexFusion; with thanks to Gabe Teninbaum for this resource via his Lawtomatic Newsletter, Issue #136
Excerpt:
In quick succession, legal technology finally saw its first IPOs:
With private money pouring into legal tech startups and based on our own conversations inside the industry, we at LexFusion expect more IPOs on the horizon. Thus, a primer on legal tech as a category to watch. This Part I summarizes the legal market fundamentals driving unprecedented investment in enabling tech—much of which extends beyond the boundaries implied by “legal” as a descriptor.
A pivot point appears to be upon us. Considered unthinkable a decade ago, US states and Canadian provinces—following similar reforms in the UK and Australia that have resulted in the first publicly traded law firms—are rapidly creating regulatory sandboxes to expand current rules limiting (a) who can provide legal services and (b) who can own those businesses.
From DSC:
One can see why #AI will become key. “…the projected CAGR for global data volumes is 26%—to pt where ‘the amount of data created over the next three years will be more than the data created over the past 30 years.’ This data explosion complicates even standard legal matters.”
Gabe also mentioned the following Tweet, which is relevant for this posting:
10 trends for legal technology in the 20’s according to @richardsusskind #BLTF2021 pic.twitter.com/a7MpqE8wYA
— Laura Fauqueur ?? (@laurafauq) October 12, 2021
On 10/12/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
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On 10/07/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
The Disruption Of Legal Services Is Here — from forbes.com by John Arsneault
Excerpt:
For the first time in those 12 years, I am now convinced we are on the precipice of the promised disruption in legal. Not because anyone in the law firms are driving toward this — but because venture capital and tech innovators have finally turned their attention to the industry.
Legal services are a much smaller overall market than, say, retail, financial services or biotech. In the world of disruption and the promised gold rush for the companies that do the disrupting, size matters. Legal has just been low on the industry list. Its number is now up.
It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback that industry now. Easy to see how big of a threat Amazon was to those companies. But when you are being rewarded for doing what you have always done and what your predecessors always did, it’s easy to miss what is around the bend. By the time those companies’ executives realized Amazon was a direct competitor with a much better fulfillment model, it was too late.
On 09/28/2021,
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by Daniel Christian
ANALYSIS: Break Down Barriers to Legal Tech Usage With Training — from news.blooberlaw.com by Francis Boustany
Excerpt:
Many law firms and legal departments report barriers to using legal technology, and insufficient training may be a root cause. To help break down these barriers, organizations should consider creating more opportunities for their lawyers and staff to train on legal technology.
When asked to select what barriers to using legal technologies exist at their organizations, respondents to Bloomberg Law’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey indicated that the top obstacles are a lack of tech savvy, a lack of familiarity with available technology, and not enough time to learn the technology.
From DSC:
If it’s not already in place, all law schools should be offering curricula in this area from here on out.