ISSUE No.22
Joshua Browder, DoNotPay’s founder, started the chatbot subscription service after moving to the U.S. from England and receiving a number of parking tickets, he said.
“I was writing the same letter over and over and thought, ‘This could so easily be automated,’” he said. “I started it by accident because I’m a bad driver [but] people were writing in with all the other problems they had. Lawyers were charging hundreds of dollars an hour.”
Source: Coindesk
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App launches with huge range of legal help to consumers and SMEs
An app for SMEs to diagnose and get guidance on their legal problems has now launched a consumer version that helps users find and book a lawyer, and is integrated with government services.
Legal Utopia assists users in identifying more than 400,000 everyday legal problems through its Legal Checker function, and provides more than 5,000 legal documents,
24,000 FAQs and 10,000 pages of legal guidance.
It also tracks how the law and guidance are changing on Covid and Brexit, updated weekly.
Source: Legal Futures
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Fuse's new cohort, its fifth since launching in 2017, includes five legal tech companies: Melbourne-based document verification company Atticus, Toronto-based legal research platform CiteRight, New York-based contracts company Draftwise, Luxembourg-based ESG and sustainability compliance company Greenomy and London-based data annotation and model training AI-powered platform Humanloop.
Source: Reuters.com
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The newly formed R&D Hub brings the firm's product research, design and development capabilities together in one place, including the product development expertise developed within subsidiary Clifford Chance Applied Solutions. By pooling this collective expertise in one place and working with Clifford Chance lawyers and other key teams, the R&D Hub will focus on the rapid and effective development of new digital solutions for the firm's clients and its lawyers.
Source: Clifford Chance
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Many of the problems facing the legal industry today cannot be solved by one law firm or company alone. Some pioneering lawyers have sought to work with specialists, peers or even rivals on innovative solutions but, until recently, their efforts have been limited. So that is why the FT Innovative Lawyers programme is now launching a new award to recognise some of the best collaborative initiatives being put into practice — and to encourage more. In the past five years, legal technology has proliferated, thanks to a big increase in products and suppliers. This has enabled certain lawyers to take advantage of automation, to reduce the amount of laborious legal work they need to do. Others have been able to use artificial intelligence to uncover hidden patterns in data. Some are also experimenting with blockchain as a way to establish trust.
Source: Financial Times
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Source: LinkedIn
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Legal tech company met COVID’s unprecedented challenges by adapting existing systems
When the COVID pandemic hit, it immediately presented unprecedented challenges for Canada’s court system. Jeffrey Lanctot and Tim Kennaley decided a rapid solution was needed, and with no time to build one from scratch, they stitched together existing and proven systems, like a puzzle.
In June 2020, Lanctot, a Peterborough, Ont. civil litigator, got a call from friend who worked in the courts. He explained to him the difficulties the paper-based system was having in adapting to COVID’s new normal. The “basis for operations,” the circulation of files between lawyers, court staff and judges was now untenable, Lanctot says.
Source: Canadian Lawyer
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Legal-tech platform promoting access to justice for marginalized communities presented at conference
A student team has pitched Mouthpiece Law, a legal technology platform that aims to reduce the traditional overhead costs for legal practitioners by as much as 50 per cent, at the Collision 2021 Conference.
The team members include three students from Queen’s Faculty of Law: Avinash Pillay, Mouthpiece Law’s chief operating officer and chief legal engineer; Yoonhyun Cho, chief executive officer and chief legal entrepreneur; and Daniel Moholia, chief information officer. Thabo Magubane from the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg Law School acts as chief technology officer, said the news release.
Source: Law Times
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This program brings together the new collaboration between the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, under CAIDE.
The program aims to build capacity in the legal profession to provide effective responses to the challenges of emerging technologies. The program is premised on a model of systems thinking, commonly learnt by engineering and computer science students, that studies how people and human-artifacts interact. This program asserts that systems thinking can be used to testing the limits and possibilities to regulation of technology.
Source: Melbourne Law School
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The significance of the 82% extends far beyond lawyers’ semantic misunderstanding of “multidisciplinary.” It evidences the profession’s insular, lawyer-centric culture at a time when its business clients are digitally transforming. A lawyer-centric mindset is inimical to the seamless, multidisciplinary, cross-functional collaboration required to satisfy the needs of digitally mature legal buyers. That requires teamwork within the legal function and beyond.
Source: Forbes.com
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Ever-increasing disputes and high case pendency has taken a toll on public justice systems worldwide. As per the study by the World Justice Project, there are approximately 5 billion people who don’t have access to basic justice needs. This is why a Private Digital Court that facilitates ADR proceedings or out-of-settlements online would not only help reduce the burden on the public justice systems, but also enhance access to justice anywhere or anytime.
Source: Punekar News
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Introducing The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary!
But there’s no similar term for when vendors use technical and other arcane languages to describe their legal software operations to lawyers.
True, this dynamic may seem unfair. But now we have The Legal Tech-to-English Dictionary to help us cope.
Read on for the inaugural installment, where we translate AI-related topics to plain English.
Source: Above the Law
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live 27th May at 15:00 BST
The Law Firm Compliance Conundrum -
Exclusive Virtual Roundtable Hosted by Aderant, in partnership with LegalTech Talks
With collaboration central to firm processes, how should firms overcome the compliance challenges? This session will explore this and much more with a debate on the impact of compliance tools within the profession.
Without a process for reviewing, accepting and acknowledging the client billing guidelines compliance is practically an impossibility.
Source: NetLaw Media
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Weekdays at noon U.S. Central Time (that's 7:00 p.m. CEST)
Bucerius Legal Tech Essentials 2021
During the month of May, Bucerius Law we are going to host inspirational presentations from some of the world's leading legal technology and operations experts on weekdays at noon U.S. Central Time (that's 7:00 p.m. CEST). We promise 60–90 minutes of insights and Q&A.
Speakers:
- Jason Boehmig, CEO, Ironclad. Date: 25 May 2021.
- Haley Altman, Litera. Date: 26 May 2021.
- Shannon Salter, Civil Resolutional Tribunal. Topic: ODR and Public Justice Reform. Date: 27 May 2021.
Source: Bucerius Law School
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