LawTech Day in S.F. Caps LegalTech
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The Recorder‘s second LawTech Day San Francisco, held Thursday at the Merchants Exchange Club, examined the impact of emerging technologies on the practice and business of law.
Associate professor Renee Knake, co-founder of the Reinvent Law Lab at Michigan State University College of Law, put the event into gear with a keynote focused on harnessing innovation to democratize legal services. She identified as “a delivery challenge” the fact that 50 to 80 percent of the U.S. population is not getting the legal assistance they need. Lawyers need not only be “(law)ntrepreneurs” using emerging technologies to improve law practice, but also “trusted curators” managing information a way that’s relevant to reaching the people who need it, she said.
During a brief Q&A, Knake addressed a suit against online legal services provider Legal Zoom for unauthorized practice of law, quoting the Harvard Business Review, “If you’re not pissing someone off, you’re probably not innovating.”
Not everyone is fully comfortable with this delivery model, she acknowledged, responding to an audience member who asked, “Isn’t a legal kiosk the same as having a do-it-yourself appendectomy?” But change is brewing in Big Law and beyond, and Reinvent Law is stirring things up, as detailed in Law Technology News article, “‘Assassins’ Aim to Reinvent Law” and The American Lawyer‘s ” The Future of Law as Seen From Silicon Valley.”
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