Agenda

8:30a – 9:00a Breakfast

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9:00a – 9:15a Welcome

Elizabeth Magill, Stanford Law School
Roland Vogl, CodeX
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9:15a – 10:00a

Opening Keynote (Paul Brest Hall)

Jim Sandman, Legal Services Corporation, @LSCtweets

The Technology Revolution, Lawyers, and Courts: Why So Slow? And How Can We Accelerate Change?

Technology has transformed and improved service delivery in many industries. But lawyers have been slow to initiate and adopt new technologies and to change their traditional service-delivery patterns, to the detriment of clients. And many courts have not embraced technologies that could make their processes more accessible to litigants, particularly those who cannot afford a lawyer. Why? Where are the levers of power and change, and how can they be harnessed to make the legal system more user-friendly?
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10:00a – 10:15a Break
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10:15a – 11:10a

Hot or Not – Watson and Beyond (Paul Brest Hall)

  • What data analytics technologies are in use today?
  • What’s real and what’s marketing buzz?
  • What’s possible in the foreseeable future?
  • What are the implications for providers and consumers of legal services?
  • What are the limitations?
  • What are the policy implications?

Moderator: Professor Dan Katz, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, @computational

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11:10a – 11:20a Break

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11:20a – 11:35a

An Introduction to the UK’s Alternative Business Structure from Eddie Hartman (Paul Brest Hall)

The U.K. Legal Services Act of 2007 allows nonlawyers to hold ownership and management positions in law firms and allows for the creation of multidisciplinary practices. As of 2012, the U.K. rule provides for a new kind of legal company, referred to as an alternative business structure (ABS).

Eddie Hartman explains how LegalZoom created an ABS and how the structure allows for significant advancements in legal technology and the delivery of legal services.

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11:40a – 12:35p

Computational Law Update (Paul Brest Hall)

Computational law is based on the representation of law in computable form, which enables computers to analyze the law and automate legal processes. We see computable law applied across practice verticals, from computable contracts to back office automation. What are the latest breakthroughs in computational law and what are the biggest challenges?

Moderator: Professor Harry Surden, University of Colorado; CodeX, @HarrySurden

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12:30p – 1:10p Lunch

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1:10p – 1:15p

Unveiling LegalTech Database and Legal Tech Link (Paul Brest Hall)

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1:15p – 2:00p

Moot Court 2020: Legal Tech on Trial (Paul Brest Hall)

Imagine it is the year 2020. Plaintiff, a dissatisfied attorney, has brought suit against the entire legal tech industry, alleging that the claims and promises it made in 2016 amount to fraud and false advertising. Using a moot court format, this session explores some of the legal tech community’s grander predictions, and examines the various ways the community might succeed (or fail) in reaching these lofty goals.

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Counsel for Plaintiff:

 

Counsel for Defendant:

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2:00p – 3:00p

Track A: Barriers to LegalTech Adoption and Possible Solutions

Many legal technology providers encounter lack of trust in their products as a viable complement or substitute to traditional legal services. A number of ‘coordination problems’ persist and keep us from designing a new system.

  • Can insurance help overcome this challenge?
  • If so, what standards are applied to human legal malpractice and what standards should be applied to machines?
  • Should regulators step in?

Moderator: Monica Bay, CodeX, @MonicaBay

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Track B: The New Legal Tech Communities

New kinds of communities are forming around the intersection of law and technology. These groups are bringing together entrepreneurs, academics, lawyers, and clients in new and exciting ways. In the process, they are reinventing the way that innovation is coming to the legal industry and creating new roles for its players. This panel will feature representatives of four different types of communities.

Moderator: David Curle, Thomson Reuters Legal

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Track C: Legal Technology in the Academy

Legal informatics academics discuss their work in the field, and the relationship between academic research and applications of their work in the “real-world”.

Moderator: Professor John McGinnis; Northwestern University Law School

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3:00p – 3:15p Break
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3:15p – 4:15p

The Role of Technologists in Reforming the Criminal Justice System (Paul Brest Hall)

  • What data can/should judges and prosecutors use to determine who should be charged, who should get out of prison, and how to minimize recidivism?
  • What are best practices for structuring analytics to provide greater transparency into police conduct?
  • How can the government leverage technologist in academia to further it’s policy goals?
  • Collection, use and storage of police data.

Moderator: Professor Phil Malone, Stanford Law School, @Phillip_Malone

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4:15p – 4:30p Break
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4:30p– 5:30p

E-Government (Paul Brest Hall)

Governments around the world are investing heavily in technology to improve their efficiency, accessibility and transparency.

  • What areas hold the biggest opportunities?
  • What do you need to know about innovating in the government space?

Moderator: Jason R. Baron, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, @JasonRBaron1

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5:30p Reception
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