It's fashionable nowadays to talk about reinventing and disrupting the legal profession. We celebrate "legal rebels " — The American Bar Association's list contains many admirable choices. Daniel Katz and Renee Knake, faculty at the Michigan State University's law school, have done the global community a great service with their ReinventLaw events. But I've long felt cognitive dissonance around the reinvent meme.
If something has already been invented, what's the point of reinventing it? If things...
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...