In this new episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast, the ABA Journal’s Jason Tashea talks to Kristen Sonday of Paladin, a platform that helps organizations manage, staff and track pro bono efforts, about the slowly growing diversity in legal tech.
Client-centrism is becoming increasingly important as globalization and new digital technologies have improved customers’ access to information, as well as their ability to find competitive alternatives more easily—often, regardless of location.
The technology’s promise to lawyers that they would never have to enter another timeslip has remained unfulfilled. But new time-capture software with artificial intelligence composed of machine learning and natural language processing is rolling out.
Built to more efficiently resolve the increasing number of online disputes finding their way into the Chinese court system, internet courts also act as an incubator for a judiciary going through rapid change.
If a business school was designing a case study of unconscious bias in the courtroom, a recent series of events in Massachusetts might offer the perfect scenario for analysis. The topic: how the defense of a protester responding to a “straight pride” parade resulted in the arrest and shackling of a female defense lawyer for speaking in court.
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Rick Weber, the co-founder and managing partner of Arbor Ridge Partners, a legal technology and legal services mergers-and-acquisitions advisory firm based in Chicago.
A Florida appeals court has reversed a $90,000 jury award to a woman who slipped and fell on a sidewalk because a Google Maps photo used to bolster her case was not properly authenticated.
“The results are shocking and reflect little, if any, positive movement in the past year or even in the past few years,” the article says. “The lack of effort on security has become a major cause for concern in the profession.”
The power of small changes to produce sustainable business growth and other beneficial outcomes was a recurring theme of the 2019 Clio Cloud Conference that concluded Tuesday.
Technology is playing a bigger role in investigations, arrests and prosecutions, so mass conviction reviews will be more common. This creates a hidden but substantial human and monetary cost to hardware and software adoption in the criminal justice system.
In this new episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast, Legal Affairs Writer Jason Tashea talks to professors Colleen Chien and Sarah Lageson about their research into the modern trials and tribulations of expungement and sealing of criminal records.
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.
