With wide interest in closing the access to justice gap, lawyers at South by Southwest’s “Crowdsourcing Justice” panel on March 13 discussed creative ways to use technology to meet the rising demand for legal assistance.
The panel focused on how lawyers have used several new crowdsourcing projects—which consist of gathering information from a large number of people remotely using the internet—in an effort to meet the needs of a mounting number of immigration clients and cases.
“This is a work in progress,” said Texas patent attorney and panelist Rafael Baca, “but ultimately it’s all about using the multiplier effect to use technology to bring access to justice.”
