Materials

Conference Materials
All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited.

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

The State of the Art of Legal Technology Circa 2015 

This presentation will provide an overview of the state of the art of legal technology, highlight the various systemic changes confronting the law and legal practice, and describe the different technological approaches that the various stakeholders in the legal system have been adopting to respond to these changes.

Keynote Speaker:

• Contract as Automation: The Computational Representation of Financial Agreements (2015).
• Legal Technology 3.0 (2015).

___________________________________________________________

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM

The Latest Advances in Big Data Law and Analytics

Machine Learning, NLP, big data analytics

• Josh Becker’s presentation supporting materials:
  • Win Lawsuits and Strengthen Your IP Portfolio
  • Land Clients and Win Lawsuits
  • Impax Laboratories Improve Way to Analyze Parent with Lex Machina
  • Legal Analytics Transform Law Department Patent Activity
  • Legal Analytics for Copyright Litigation
  • Legal Analytics for Trademark Litigation
• Daniel Lewis: Ravel Law Powerpoint
• Paul Lippe and Daniel Katz: Legal By Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law
• Daniel Martin Katz, Quantitative Legal Prediction -or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry, 62 Emory Law Journal 909 (2013)
• Daniel Martin Katz, Michael Bommarito & Josh Blackman, Predicting the Behavior of the United States Supreme Court: A General Approach
• Daniel Martin Katz, Legal Analytics Course 

___________________________________________________________

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Regulators’ Responses to the Economic and Technological Forces Transforming the Legal Profession

From the ABSs in Australia and the UK to the RocketLawyer/ABA Pilot Program, regulators around the world are working to respond to the economic and technological forces transforming the legal profession. This stakeholder panel will place regulatory reform proponents alongside lawyers concerned with price dilution, and the pain of shifting long-standing business practices.

• “Regulations Need Not Stifle Innovation,” by Charley Moore. Reprinted with permission from the Feb. 2015 edition of Law Technology News magazine, © 2015 ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. For information, contact 877-257-3382,reprints@alm.com or visit www.almeprints.com.
• Is There Such a Thing as an Affordable Lawyer?
• “Game Change ABA Pilots With RocketLawyer,” by Monica Bay.  Reprinted with permission from the Oct. 2014 edition of Law Technology News magazine, © 2014 ALM Media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. For information, contact 877-257-3382, reprints@alm.com or visit www.almeprints.com.
• “Trust Darwin: How Tech Will Disrupt, Save the Legal Profession,” by Monica Bay. Reprinted with permission from the February 2015 edition of Law Technology News magazine, ©2015 ALM media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. For information, contact 877-257-3382, reprints@alm.com or visitwww.almeprints.com.
• Chas Rampenthal and James Peters’ comments to the ABA Issues Paper on the Future of Legal Services
• Chas Rampenthal’s testimony at the Commission hearings
• Chas Rampenthal’s presentation at Reinvent Law

___________________________________________________________

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Track A: Best Practices for Consumer Law Companies

• Eddie Hartman’s presentation supporting materials:
  • Tracker Survey 2013- Briefing note 2: Shopping for Legal Services
  • A Profession, If You Can Keep It: How Information Technology and Fading Borders are Reshaping the Law Marketplace and What We Should Do About It
  • Research on Consumers’ Attitudes towards the Purchase of Legal Services
  • Leveraging Technology to Deliver Legal Services
  • Transforming Consumer Legal: Adapt and Evolve
• Richard Granat’s presentation supporting materials:
  • Suggested Minimum Requirements for Law Firms Delivering Legal Services Online. eLawyering Task Force, Law Pracitce Management Section, ABA. (2009).
  • Best Practice Guidelines for Legal Document Service Providers. eLawyering Task Force, Law Pracitce Management Section, ABA. (2012).
  • Best Practice Guidelines for Legal Information Web Site Providers. Law Pracitce Management Section, ABA.
  • Guidelines for the Use of Cloud Computing in Law Practice. eLawyering Task Force, Law Pracitce Management Section, ABA. (2011).

 

Track B: Innovating from Within Law Firms: Technology Serving Law Firms in Delivering Value to Clients

This panel features law firm innovators discussing their experience in developing or adopting technologies that enhance their legal services for their clients. This panel will also discuss nuts and bolts strategies to get law firms to adopt legal technologies.

• Julie Pearl’s presentation supporting materials:
  • Finessing Tech to Navigate Immigration Mazes
  • Innovating from within Law Firms: Technology Delivering Value to Clients

Track C: The Adoption of Technology Within Corporate Legal Departments

This panel features in-house leaders discussing their experience in developing or adopting technologies that enhance their legal services for their clients. This panel will also discuss nuts and bolts strategies to get corporations to adopt legal technologies.

• David Perla: Law Firm Challenges and Opportunities in Cybersecurity 
• David Perla: Should the Private Sector Drive PACER?
• Mark Chandler: A Legal Department Strategy

___________________________________________________________

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

How Legal Tech is Furthering Human Rights and Access to Justice

• Getting it right, the web based Human Rights Impacts Assessment (HRIA) tool
• Josh Becker’s presentation supporting materials:
  • YC-Backed Casetext Takes a New Angle on Value Added Legal Research With Wikipedia-Style User Annotations
  • 2 New Websites Offer Platform for Crowdsourced Legal Research
• Bonnie Rose Hough’s presentation supporting materials:
  • Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice. (2013).
  • California Courts On-Line Self Help Center with links to resources
  • Legal Aid Self Help Website with links to legal help
  • Equal Access website has resources for courts and legal services providing self help assistance
• Chris Jochnick’s presentation supporting materials:
  • OxFam America. Community-Based Human Rights Impact Assessment Initiative
• Koenig, A. (2014) Digital Fingerprints: Using Electronic Evidence to Advance Prosecutions at the International Criminal Court
• Oren Yakobovich’s presentation supporting materials:
  • TED Talk by Oren Yakobovich: “Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places“
  • Videre: the secretive group on a mission to film human-rights abuses

___________________________________________________________

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

New Breakthroughs in Computational Law

Computable contracts; open data; legal applications of the blockchain

• Bavinck, H. (2015). The Stanford Computable Contracts Initiative.
• Genesereth, M.R. (2015). Computational Law, White Paper, CodeX—The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
• Shadab, H.B. (2015). Empowering Distributed Autonomous Companies. 
• Stark, E. (2015). California Proposes Bill To Ban All Unlicensed Bitcoin Businesses, Without Even Defining What That Means. 
• Wright, A., and De Filippi, P. (2015). Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia.

Background:

• Surden, H. (2012). Computable Contracts. UC Davis Law Review, 2012-13.
• HM Treasury (2015). Digital currencies: response to the call for information