This summer, I had the privilege to intern with the Self-Represented Litigation Network, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit comprised of lawyers, judges, and allied professionals. Together, they are “creating innovative and evidence-based solutions, so that self-represented litigants have meaningful access to the courts and get the legal help they need”.
Continue Reading A Bold Vision for Legal Innovation: The ATJ Tech Fellows Program
Great lawyers are master writers and communicators. Lawyers must translate thoughts and opinions into clear and precise English. Legal writing is a technical type of writing lawyers and others use to express legal analysis and legal rights and duties. Much of a lawyer’s role is writing legal documents, responses, briefs, letters and emails.
Continue Reading Concision Course 101: Why Law Students Should Embrace WordRake!
There’s no shortage of sitcoms and movies that fantasize the law school experience. While not as dramatic as sitcoms like “How to get away with Murder” portray, law school is time-consuming. From juggling class readings, journal obligations, student organizations, and internships. With so many moving pieces, it’s hard to ever feel a sense of control. The uneasy feeling of the next deadline is an all too common experience for many law students.Continue Reading Life on the KanBan: What Law Students could learn from Agile Law Practice
The Seattle Legal Innovation and Technology Meetup Group is delivering a terrific event for June. (Sound Immigration is the CLE sponsor). We’re talking hackers (the good kind), AI, design thinking for law, and Kanban. Plus, there’ll be adult beverages and networking afterward at Avvo’s new HQ in the area they like to call south-South Lake Union. Beyond the awesome topics, CLE credit (3 credits pending) will be available for attorneys but we promise it won’t be boring! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
WHEN | Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM (PDT)
WHERE | Avvo, Inc. – 720 Olive Way, Suite 1400, Seattle, 98101 – View MapContinue Reading UPCOMING EVENT June 7th|The 21st Century Lawyer CLE
There is much hype around artificial intelligence in the legal profession. AI, sometimes referred to as cognitive computing. Refers to computers learning how to complete tasks traditionally done by humans.
I got to see firsthand what all the fuss was about this past weekend. When I attended the CodeX Future Law Conference at Stanford Law School. The panel titled “Hot or Not- Watson and Beyond” moderated by Chicago-Kent Professor Dan Katz. Panelists included Noah Waisberg of Kira Systems; Khalid Al-Kofahi from Thomson Reuters; Charles Horowitz of The MITRE Corporation – Center for Judicial Informatics, Science, and Technology; Andrew Arruda of ROSS Intelligence; and Himabindu Lakkaraju of Stanford University.Continue Reading Robot Lawyers: Kill Law Jobs or Augment Expertise?
Nearly ten years ago, leaders across the nation from legal services, legal education, and court administration assembled in Chicago for the Leadership Workshop on Access to Justice. The workshop hosted by Chicago-Kent College of Law and The Center for Computer-Aided Legal Instruction (CALI) set out to explore new and innovative ways to leverage
There’s a trend in the legal profession for the use of technology to enhance access of legal services. This trend aims to provide greater legal access to poor and underserviced communities. I call it the “Access to Justice Tech Movement” or “ATJ Tech Movement” for short. The ATJ Tech movement formed of legal innovators. Evangelizing the use of technology to provide greater access. Innovative law school curriculums that incorporate the use of technology to promote legal access. And legal aid organizations and non-profits who leverage technology to serve their clients.
Leaders of the ATJ tech movement have ushered a new era of the profession. Through the creation of disruptive technologies. Providing for greater access and improved delivery of legal services. Some of the technologies include self-help web portals, document assembly tools, mobile apps.Continue Reading Access to Justice & Technology: The Elephant in the Room
The legal profession is rapidly changing with the influx of technology and legal entrepreneurs who are crafting innovative products and services to best serve clients needs and expand access to justice to underrepresented communities.
A legal renaissance has emerged with legal startups like Docket Alarm, a legal research tool that processes full-text searches across lawsuits and producing analytics and predictions. Shake, a platform that makes the law accessible and understandable to consumers and small business owners.Continue Reading 8 Law Schools on Cutting Edge of Tech + Innovation
Check out the latest ABA Student Lawyer! They dedicated a whole issue about the latest technology you need to know and the apps you’ll use in your education and career. Be sure to check out my feature recaping the Social Justice Hackathon “Can You Hack This” and all the other great pieces on tech. Check them out below.Continue Reading New ABA “Student Lawyer” Issue Dedicated to Tech
Welcome all to the Innovative Law Student” blog on which I intend to focus on innovations in the legal industry and legal education, topics ranging from tech justice to virtual reality, in thought-provoking and insightful posts catered for an legal and law student audience. The ISL blog is a group forum to which many ISL team members contribute. Outside contributions are welcome.Continue Reading Welcome To My New Blog