Stanford Looks to FutureLaw
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The agenda of the first FutureLaw conference at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics wasn’t your typical continuing legal education fare.
Tim Hwang, name partner at three-year-old legal startup Robot Robot and Hwang served as the program curator of the program, a division of Stanford University’s law school. (Hwang is serious about the “Robots” in his firm’s name, calling “Apollo Cluster” and “Daria XR-1029” senior partners.) At the inaugural conference,which drew about 250 law students, lawyers, entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, and technologists, Hwang declared that his goal was to assemble a group to discuss legal service ideas and developments that they “might not usually have a chance to nerd about with others.” Simply put, Hwang wanted the conference to answer this question: “What awesome things are people working on [in legal services] that should be shared more widely?”
The recurring theme of the day-long program , with 26 speakers scheduled, was held on campus on April 26, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., was that technology can drive a revolution in the legal market to meet a vast unmet demand.
• Daniel Martin Katz, assistant professor at Michigan State University’s School of Law, and co-founder of its Reinvent Law Laboratory, said that surveys consistently document that 70 percent of the people who need legal services can’t get them.
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