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22 Dec 2011, 8:44 am
Sean Martin McDonald, JD, MA, of FrontlineSMS and FrontlineSMS:Legal has posted Law in the Last-Mile: The Potential of Mobile Integration into Legal Services, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
In this post, Mr. McDonald describes the obstacles preventing many people in developing countries from accessing legal services. He then argues that new technologies, based on text messaging via mobile phones, can overcome many of these… [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 8:32 am
LSC TIG 2012: The Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grants Conference, is being held 11-13 January 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
The conference features presentations about innovative applications of technology to improve access to justice.
Click here for the complete conference program.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lsctig.
Filed under: Applications, Conference Announcements, Presentations, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: A2J Author, Access to… [read post]
9 Jun 2012, 10:55 am
The program has been posted for LawTechCamp London 2012 — “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals” — to be held 29 June 2012 in London, England, UK.
The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawtechcamplondon.
A notable characteristic of this event is that it gathers together in one place individuals from most of the different subgroups of the legal informatics community.
The event’s organizers… [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 8:05 pm
Sean Martin McDonald, Esq., of Frontline SMS and Frontline SMS: Legal, has published The Case for mLegal, Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 6(1), 41-62 (2011), doi: 10.1162/INOV_a_00057. (Click here for an open access version of the article.) Here is a summary:
While there are a number of obstacles [facing citizens of developing countries] to accessing legal systems, many of them are the result of barriers to communication. SMS is the world’s cheapest, most ubiquitous data… [read post]
11 Nov 2012, 12:02 pm
Claudia C. Johnson, Esq., of ProBonoNet has posted The Technology Future, on Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice Blog.
This lengthy and interesting post covers a very large number of topics regarding how technological innovation is likely to influence legal aid services. Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz’s work on quantitative legal prediction is cited.
HT @rzorza
Filed under: Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Technology developments, Technology tools Tagged: Claudia C.… [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 9:00 pm
My new article, entitled Open, Generative, and User Centered: The Potential of SMS-Based Legal Technology for Development, has been published in Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 6(1), 63-68 (2011), doi: 10.1162/INOV_a_00058. (Click here for an open access version of the article.) Here is a summary:
For those desiring to create user-centered means of improving access to justice for low-income citizens of developing countries, SMS-based systems seem extremely promising. Development… [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 6:11 pm
Dr. Margaret Hagan of Stanford Law School has launched Open Law Lab, “an initiative to design law – to make it more accessible, more usable, and more engaging.”
Dr. Hagan says that the Lab currently is a nonprofit collaborative project among law students.
The Lab’s work currently addresses:
Visualization of legal information
Improvements in dispute resolution
Legal educational technology with an emphasis on gamification
Court technology, under the rubric of Usable court… [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 12:48 am
Twitter tweets from LexThink.1 2013 lightning talks about innovation in legal technology and law practice, held 3 April 2013 in Chicago, Illinois, are now archived in .csv format.
The Twitter hashtag for the event was #lexthink
Click here for the event’s program.
Click here for the event’s Website.
Filed under: Applications, Conference resources, Presentations, Tweet archives Tagged: #lexthink, Big data and law practice technology, Big data and legal information systems, Big data and… [read post]
25 Oct 2012, 2:42 pm
Archived tweets are available, in .csv format for CFCT 2012: Canadian Forum on Court Technology, held 24-25 October in Montreal.
Twitter hashtags for the conference are #cfct and #cfct2012
Click here for the conference Website.
Click here for the conference program.
Filed under: Applications, Conference resources, Tweet archives Tagged: Canadian Forum on Court Technology, CFCT, CFCT 2012, Court information systems, Court technology, Innovation in court information systems, Innovation in court… [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 7:21 am
Riverbed Technology said on Monday that it planned to buy Opnet Technologies for $993.3 million in cash and stock, bolstering its business in optimizing software on corporate networks. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 5:52 am
[Pre-Article Commentary: This is one of the best divorce tips I could possibly give to my potential Rhode Island Divorce clients whether I represent them or coach them. Though I didn't write this I'm glad it is being brought to the public's attention. Think before you act. - Attorney Christopher A. Pearsall] Article By: Patricia Reaney REUTERS Saturday February 25, 2012 9:37 AM NEW YORK — Couples who might be headed for a nasty breakup should be careful about texting, which could end up as… [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 9:08 am
So you have technology in your office that is at least five years old (if not older) and saved $5,000? Is it best to replace everything or replace some items and upgrade or keep others? The answer is, it depends. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 8:51 pm
ReInvent Law Dubai 2012: Unconference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship will be held 10 December 2012 at Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, according to an announcement at Computational Legal Studies.
The event’s organizers will be Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake, both of the Michigan State University College of Law and its new ReInvent Law Laboratory.
According to the event brochure:
ReInvent Law Dubai is an (un)conference focusing on… [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 5:49 pm
The University of Florida Legal Technology Institute has ceased its affiliation with the university, and has merged with Adkins Consulting Group, to form a new entity called the Legal Technology Institute, according to an announcement by the Institute’s director, Andrew Z. Adkins III.
According to the announcement, “[t]he Institute provides independent legal technology consulting services and market research services for the legal profession.”
For more information, please see the Institute’s… [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 7:30 pm
A new podcast about law school technology, called Law School Tech Talk, has been launched by CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.
The podcast is available on CALI’s ClassCaster platform, and on iTunes. News about episodes is also posted on Twitter at @lstechtalk.
The first episode features Professor Jonathan Ezor discussing law students’ use of social media, and Tom Boone on free legal research resources.
Filed under: Applications, podcasts, Technology developments,… [read post]
8 May 2013, 6:52 am
Professor Anne L. Washington of George Mason University has posted an abstract entitled Legislative Transparency and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress.
Here is the abstract:
What has motivated Congress to build the technical and organizational infrastructure that is necessary for legislative transparency? Congress unlike the executive branch has not faced the institutional pressure to modernize its work practices through technology. The legislative branch has been free to determine… [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 5:01 am
Posted by Henry M. Sneath, a principal, shareholder and IP Group Chair at Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton, P.C. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I take no credit for this post. We have been linking to a great site “Pittsblog” authored by Michael Madison, a UPitt Law Professor. He has published a series of great articles on “Open Innovation” in Pittsburgh and his latest is a good read. Check it out: http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/
Filed under: Technology Tagged: Pittsburgh Business Start Ups,… [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 3:03 pm
James E. McMillan of the National Center for State Courts has posted E-Filing Must Support the Self-Represented, Court Technology Bulletin, 8 September 2011.
This is the latest post in Mr. McMillan’s series, Eight Rules of E-Filing.
In this post, Mr. McMillan argues that e-filing systems implemented by courts in which large numbers of self-represented litigants appear must be designed for use by those litigants. Mr. McMillan then describes a number of court technologies that that enable… [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 5:06 am
This post contains links to tweets and other resources from the 2013 Georgetown Iron Tech Lawyer Competition: Access to Justice Edition, held 17 April 2013 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA.
Click here for the event’s Webpage.
The event was organized by Professor Tanina Rostain and Adjunct Professor Roger V. Skalbeck, both of Georgetown University Law Center, as part of their practicum entitled Technology, Innovation and Legal Practice Practicum – Access to… [read post]
Nominal Tech $$s in Your Company Budget? 4 Easy Steps on “How” to Better Use Tech Tools in Your Work
25 Apr 2012, 1:00 pm
If, like most financial services companies, your department or work team only receives nominal support from your technology group, then my piece in the April issue of Law Practice Today should interest you: it lays out a fourfold strategy for better utilizing tech tools. With fewer people doing more (the new workplace mantra), access to tech tools become our life vest.
Clearly, in the struggle to win dollars for use in technology tools to support business platforms, most (all?) financial… [read post]