Amanda Huff Brown, 2015-2016 student practitioner in the Technology and Legal Innovation Clinic, was just selected as the American Bar Association Center for Innovation’s Microsoft Next-Gen Fellow! Amanda will spend the next year in residence at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington leading the development of legal technology projects that aim to increase access to justice […]

But the hard work seems to have paid off, as ROSS was just unveiled as a “new hire” at the law firm Baker & Hostetler, which handles bankruptcy cases. Arruda says several other firms have signed licenses to employ ROSS’ services, and their announcements will be made in the coming weeks. Read More

Tech-savvy law students were last week invited to pursue careers delivering legal services via technology businesses instead of the conventional route of joining a legal firm, at a meeting of IT executives committed to establishing London as a global hub for lawtech start-ups. Read More

Today, thanks to political gridlock in the U.S., lawmakers respond to innovations with all the speed of continental drift. As government gets slower, tech is going the opposite way. New technologies spread instantly by cloud-based apps and social networks, and take hold with almost no legal oversight. Then, by the time government can act, it’s […]

Today, closed, proprietary software can put you in prison or even on death row. And in most U.S. jurisdictions you still wouldn’t have the right to inspect it. In short, prosecutors have a Volkswagen problem. [Read More]

*IPFS Hash of this Article: QmRfxvy7bDqnLW9M9tDXp6gy3ZE338MGfaqZQrwyWyrNsW * Background I am not alone in being excited about the possibilities of a distributed, permanent file system for the web. Decentralizing the web will lessen the influence of big content aggregators and promote the free and easy exchange of ideas. There are many entrants in the distributed web […]

In his mind, programming should be left to the professionals because more code in the world just means more buggy code. I can’t disagree more. This is like saying there should be fewer literate people because more writing will result in more misspelled words. [Read More]

I had the pleasure to ask Professor Mitchell a few questions on coding and the legal profession in addition to how he got his start learning how to program. It turns out he prefers Vim! This interview (to be integrated) is among the interviews from my book Quit Law and Code about making the career […]

The point is, if you file briefs electronically — and what litigator in 2014 doesn’t — then you need to be thinking about how to make your briefs readable on a tablet; that is where judges are reading them. [Read More on Lawyerist]