01:04 How Did You Discover
This Legal Tech Problem?
00:00 Intro 00:15 Introducing Tariq Hafeez from LegalEase 02:30 How Did You Discover
This Legal Tech Problem?
In my experience running my own law firm — and coaching hundreds of other attorneys — I can tell you that 99 times out of 100, «
legal tech problems» all come down to this: you haven't found the right people to guide you.
Not exact matches
So, does Facebook's reintroduction of facial recognition
tech to the EU mean it's fixed the
legal problems it had before?
says fetal tissue procurement
tech as medical director discusses strategy to avoid
legal problems.
This
problem has been addressed by two universities in the U.S.: The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, both have programs in place to train postdoctoral scientists in the
legal and business aspects of
tech transfer.
Maybe this low percentage is the root cause of the
legal tech industry's obsession with solving all the wrong
problems, or maybe 9 % is a typical percentage of ex-professionals to have on staff for companies trying to provide
tech solutions to that industry.
We have talked about how
legal tech often focuses on the wrong
problems and that one of the things we should be doing is working to better access and wrangle big data.
In an attempt to automate or systematize the drafting of
legal agreements, even the best software will run into the
problem of finding that elusive
legal tech precedent.
Stephanie Pagni, General Counsel for Barclays UK, said: «This initiative will help trigger a transformation in law -
tech with significant potential, addressing not just commercial but also societal
legal problems, and drawing on the expertise of data scientists, engineers and a range of other graduates and contributors from our university partners.»
What this perhaps shows is that
legal tech start - ups may need to wield very smart and advanced technology, such as machine learning, but the
problems they need to solve to be of use to lawyers are in fact sometimes of the simplest nature.
Saying
legal tech sucks is not going to solve anything, so let's instead collaborate in the real world to solve real
problems.
Some investors find that lawyers are not innovative enough to disrupt an industry, so lawyers then seek out
tech disrupters with
legal industry knowledge (a hard find) to solve their
problems.
Among them were Bebe Chueh, cofounding partner of the innovative technology - based law firm Atrium LLP; Chrissie Lightfoot, cofounder and CEO of Robot Lawyer LISA; Dorna Moini, the lawyer who founded HelpSelf
Legal to help low - income people handle common legal problems; Emily Montgomery, the Las Vegas attorney who launched the legal keyboard product Citepad; Melinda Sungenis Black, the veteran legal tech executive who is preparing to launch The Expert Witness Exchange; and Amy Wan, the lawyer who started Bootstrap Legal to help real estate investors get legal paperwork done more ea
Legal to help low - income people handle common
legal problems; Emily Montgomery, the Las Vegas attorney who launched the legal keyboard product Citepad; Melinda Sungenis Black, the veteran legal tech executive who is preparing to launch The Expert Witness Exchange; and Amy Wan, the lawyer who started Bootstrap Legal to help real estate investors get legal paperwork done more ea
legal problems; Emily Montgomery, the Las Vegas attorney who launched the
legal keyboard product Citepad; Melinda Sungenis Black, the veteran legal tech executive who is preparing to launch The Expert Witness Exchange; and Amy Wan, the lawyer who started Bootstrap Legal to help real estate investors get legal paperwork done more ea
legal keyboard product Citepad; Melinda Sungenis Black, the veteran
legal tech executive who is preparing to launch The Expert Witness Exchange; and Amy Wan, the lawyer who started Bootstrap Legal to help real estate investors get legal paperwork done more ea
legal tech executive who is preparing to launch The Expert Witness Exchange; and Amy Wan, the lawyer who started Bootstrap
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Legal to help real estate investors get
legal paperwork done more ea
legal paperwork done more easily.
Today we're talking with our friend Nicole Bradick about using design thinking to build
tech solutions to
legal problems, and about why none of that can probably fix some of the
problems built into the
legal system today.
«There is an emerging global
legal community... forging a culture that is transparent, collaborative, diverse, cross-border, data - driven,
problem solving,
tech and process centric, diverse, inter-disciplinary, merit - centric, flat, pedigree - agnostic, and innovative.»
Wilson also points out that some of the best
legal tech start - ups could be those that solve what would appear to be a relatively low - level
problem, but that because they are experienced throughout the sector have the potential to make a systemic difference.
In which case, the best answer may be that you don't need to be a lawyer to be a
legal tech founder, but you do need to have first - hand experience of the
problem you are trying to solve in the
legal world.
When the word innovation is used in relation to law, it usually conjures up images of high -
tech solutions to old - fashioned
legal problems.
And then, a few years after a critical mass of
legal problem - solvers start using AI - powered
legal tech and it blows everyone's minds for a while, ROSS or Casetext or some other AI - powered startup will take over Clio's booth on the TECHSHOW floor.
The law foundation has donated $ 50,000 to Ryerson University's
Legal Innovation Zone and $ 54,083 to Osgoode Hall Law School's Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution to fund initiatives that support «innovative youth - led
tech solutions to justice
problems,» according to a statement from the law foundation.
Irene Mo, ABA Center for Innovation — People and Processes, THEN Products: A
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problems in the
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legal industry.
From innovative law school classes to
legal tech incubators, the industry is now in a position to change the face of the profession and solve critical
problems that only diverse entrepreneurs are equipped to solve.
Lots of
legal tech is happening in small and large law firms all over the world, too, as law firms come up with technological solutions to their own
problems.
The lack of coverage of
legal tech companies (as opposed to
legal tech products, which get plenty of coverage) is a
problem for
legal tech companies and lawyers.
The Iron
Tech Lawyer competition expects students to address a thorny
legal problem, such as navigating the law around veteran disability benefits.
The well - defined, material focus of the GLH evidences a maturation of the
legal tech community; it does not advance technology as an end unto itself but as a vehicle for forging a scaled global effort to solve law's «wicked
problems» and to improve
legal delivery for all.
Tech that is well funded — $ 3.5 bn in the US in
legal technology tells a tale — and open - source software are making the cost of solutions to
problems and challenges accessible to innovators.
And while that is a great
problem to have for fans of the
legal tech industry, it can be daunting for attorneys who want to stay informed but simply can't find the time.
Borrowing from product management language, it seems the overall lay of the land is that
Legal Tech — while maturing and flexing its power — remains somewhere in between
problem - solution and product market fit.
Lisa Needham's Lawyerist column, «
Legal Tech Is Solving All the Wrong
Problems,» laments that despite the rich array of technology available to law firms, attorneys «seem unable to figure out how to leverage technology for the greater ease of the profession.»
This difference allows diverse
legal tech entrepreneurs to identify and fix
problems that go to the heart of
legal practice that most others assume can not be addressed.
Women and minorities in
legal tech create solutions for a wide variety of
problems related to the business and practice of law and the
legal system — not just access to justice and social justice issues.
Their knowledge is a different angle into
legal tech, and they've solved more
problems than many of us have even encountered.
The Global
Legal Innovation Challenge — the brainchild of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP and LegalX — will call on a broad range of
tech companies to solve a specific
problem facing Big Law in Canada.
Fred pointed at document review and online interaction with clients as the top two
legal industry
problems that
tech could solve.
Show Notes: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Info on CaseOne 00:37 All - in - One practice management solution 00:55 How did you discover this
legal -
tech problem?
They are bringing together law firms and
tech providers to «think differently» to solve
problems in the ever - changing field of
legal technology.
At the intersection of access to justice and innovation, the ATJ
Tech Fellows program catalyzes a combination of knowledge, attitude, skills and actions to prepare future lawyers with the skills to harness technology and
legal innovation to tackle the full breadth of
problems facing our civil justice system.
Aside from iPhones, FaceTime, Slack, Trello, videoconferencing, and all the other ubiquitous
tech we rely on, there is also a range of new technologies available to help solve
legal problems, such as «artificial intelligence, machine learning, practice management technology, automated document assembly, predictive coding and mapping technology.»
Also, you can check out these videos: Why FLIP, FLIP Launch for more information as well these reports:
Legal Tech Vision, FLIP 101
Problem Statements.
Legal tech is much ballyhooed but is not enough to fix law firm and client
problems.
Cunha went on to say that while blockchain
tech offers potential for efficiency, there are too many technical and
legal problems to overcome first, one of those being how to deal with issues of finality, which he referred to as the «holy grail» of financial services.
This doesn't seem to stop Apple's
legal problems, however, and the company isn't only sued by customers worldwide, but also investigated by watchdogs who think the
tech giant violated consumer rules.