I guess maybe what I'm thinking is that by opening up the window, by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and solving legal problems, and part of me thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop thinking about serving just one client's legal needs, and start thinking
about solving that legal problem for anyone who comes to you.
Luckily, the written word happens to be what prospective clients want to see when they go hunting for information
about solving their legal problem.
Not exact matches
«Legislating is
about problem solving, and I believe it is a significant
problem that New York State has no mandatory reporting law for parents,
legal guardians, caretakers or other responsible adults to not notify law enforcement of the death of their child, accidental or otherwise, within atimely manner of the death being discovered.»
I enjoy meeting people, learning
about their lives and careers and most importantly, helping them
solve whatever their
legal problem is.»
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about solving a research or discovery
problem, sketching out a
legal strategy, assessing the merits of a case, or performing a multitude of tasks that a lawyer now confronts.
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Ask him
about two things: building a successful litigation practice from scratch and
solving legal problems with technology.
One of my favourite things
about being a lawyer is that
legal work provides unending opportunities for
problem solving.
I mean it's this interesting dynamic that we've talked
about on the show before where there's for sure the distinction between access to justice and access to lawyers, and that you can have your
legal problem or your life
problem with
legal implications
solved without necessarily needing to engage a lawyer, so not all access to justice
problems are access to lawyer
problems.
Be grateful that you can still impress some people at parties, you can afford to pay the mortgage in your house in the suburbs and that on occasion, you can sit back and say to yourself that you helped
solve someone's
legal problem and felt good
about it.
So how should we start thinking
about that when we think
about the construction of the
legal system and how to
solve that
problem?
Today were replaying a conversation with Brad Clark
about building websites that let him
solve potential clients
problems before they meet him and
about his creative access to justice efforts from Mobile
legal clinics to financial aid for criminal expungement.
Usually we're talking
about young women who want to know these stories, they want to know the background those are the perfect candidates for the intake position because we don't want them trying to
solve this person's
problem and most of us even after a few months in the
legal industry, we think we have enough information to jump to
solving.
The bottom line is to figure out what the clients you'd like to have are doing to
solve their
problems, and show up to let them know
about the
legal issue you can help with.
We talked
about an access to justice gap, but what people are usually talking
about is an access to lawyers gap because there is actually no gap in the number of people who have their
legal problems solved.
I learned
about the importance of medical -
legal partnerships, where lawyers can be part of the team at VA medical facilities and I have learned that when lawyers are on the team they can often help
solve the underlying
problem that brings the veteran to the facility, such as homelessness and without the exposure on the street the veteran has a place to live, often they don't need to come to the medical facility as often.
Sometimes we worry
about the complexity of the environmental and social
problems we're all facing but are reminded that Indigenous
legal orders offer important tools for
solving complex
problems.
legal problems they don't know that they have, e.g., one unserviced
legal problem often leads to several more — e.g., termination of employment without cause or compensation, means debt, loss of property, family break - up, depression, substance abuse, and sometimes suicide, etc.; and, (3) enlist the help of the social media, news media, pressure groups, and those political parties in opposition to governments; (4) everyone should complain loudly to all of the above
about law societies» failure to try to
solve the unaffordable
legal services
problem — their failure to attack it is the cause.
We discussed the new Relativity Ecosystem, interoperability trends focusing on tools that
solve business
problems, and the buzz
about creating apps for
legal technology software at kCura's annual user conference, Relativity Fest.
Sebastian Ko, Regional Director and Senior
Legal Counsel of integrated legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring about transformational change and solve long unresolved problems in the law, such as access to jus
Legal Counsel of integrated
legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring about transformational change and solve long unresolved problems in the law, such as access to jus
legal technology provider Epiq, believes innovation in law will bring
about transformational change and
solve long unresolved
problems in the law, such as access to justice.
That goes to something we've talked
about before on the podcast which is realize that lawyers tend to be myopic thinking
about, «There is a
legal problem and I have the solution to it,» rather than, «My client has a
problem, one aspect of which is a
legal problem that I was trained to
solve in law school, but there's a bigger
problem that I can help
solve.»
Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived
legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «
about finding social outcomes that help
solve human
problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to
solve legal puzzles.»
I think they apply whether we're talking
about individuals who definitely are under - served by lawyers today, but I think it goes all the way up to the largest clients, too, where there are large corporates that have all these
legal needs that aren't being met because it's just not either packaged or priced in a way that works for them to get these
problems solved.
For all of that, what I most value
about my
legal training is that it taught me how to
solve problems and help others
solve theirs.
Through this notion of law as a means of
solving human
problems, Rod Macdonald taught us his most important lesson — what
legal education should really be
about.
Legal AI has been so successful already because the bigger story is always one
about positive change, the one
about using technology to
solve problems, deliver value, open up new areas of insight and capability, as well as to boost productivity, not just in the law, but across the entire economy.
However, the building of this kind of process requires a knowledge
about substantive
legal problems and how people practically can
solve them which would go beyond what a court in this country would normally hold themselves out as holding.
Despite these limitations, AttorneyFee.com is making a major contribution towards providing a visible data base
about how much it costs to
solve legal problems.
In other places where there are already robust law and technology communities by the time a
Legal Hackers chapter forms (as was the case in DC), it's really
about creating a forum for those existing communities to convene and
solve problems together.
I don't think we should stop talking
about AI, but I do think we should focus on tackling
problems that are still plaguing the
legal industry that a robot drafting a
legal pleading from scratch can't
solve.
The objective of this model is to provide a design language for thinking
about, and
solving,
legal engineering
problems.
This question is being asked more broadly in Law Schools as
legal academics and lawyers bring design principles to the question of where and how people access
legal education, where and how people learn
about law, and where and how people
solve the
problems that matter most in their lives.
Therefore we see for example, LSUC embracing apps, with no assessment as to: (1) their relation to, and impact upon
solving the
problem; (2) their ability to bring
about the economies - of - scale so badly needed in the production of
legal services; (3) their ability to serve and sustain the continued existence of the general practitioner; (4) the prevalence (frequency and availability) of the solicitor - client relationship among all of the many and fast - moving developments in the provision of
legal services; and, (5) the issues set out above.
In the
legal department it's
about trying to anticipate where you will have challenges throughout the course of a transaction; to
solve the
problems quickly and effectively.
Heck, now that I've essentially
solved the
legal industry's biggest
problem, maybe it's time to move on to global warming or bringing
about world peace.
The latest
legal needs survey in the Netherlands (Geschilbeslechtingsdelta 2014) suggests that 48 per cent of people seeking assistance in the
legal sector want advice
about how to
solve problems; 45 per cent advice
about their rights and obligations; 24 per cent help with approaching the other party; 20 per cent mediation; 18 per cent some kind of financial advice; and 16 per cent help with starting a procedure.
The new delivery paradigm is also
about automation, predictive tools, data, and analytics designed to enable consumers to detect
legal problems before they metastasize and to
solve business challenges that raise
legal issues more quickly and efficiently.
And right now,
legal hackers seem to be getting their projects mainly from municipalities and a few «thought leaders» within the academe — people who generally don't have the kind of deep knowledge
about legal problems facing solo and small - firm lawyers and their clients that would be necessary to come up with a list of
problems to
solve.
Despite the differences, what seems universal are concerns
about the national laws and
legal procedures families must rely on when they can not
solve their own
problems, whether these are
problems associated with divorce or child protection matters.