What We're Following, Watching & Listening To
Since I graduated law school, I've been focused on offering high-volume low cost legal services through technological innovation.
Now, in 2023, there are lots of people interested in this quest, and it has generated a whole tech ecosystem.
Robert Ambrogi’s Weekly Legal Tech Discussion for LawWeek
Every Friday at noon Pacific Time (3PM Eastern Time) Robert Ambrogi gathers legal tech columnists and reporters to discuss the latest news in legal tech. Lately the news has been dominated by the possible ways that AI could revolutionize legal practice.
Every week you can hear a smart analysis by knowledgeable experts reporting on these changes in technologies that could change the way we interact with the legal system.
You can view it on Facebook, or on YouTube
Talk Justice - An LSC Podcast
This is a tremendous resource, hosted by Caitlin “Cat” Moon designs the J.D. curriculum at Vanderbilt University for PoLI Institute with the goal of empowering students to lead in the innovation of 21st century legal services delivery.
Recent programs included this interesting one about AI's potential to bring access to justice to consumers.
Guests included Natalie Anne Knowlton, the Founder of Access to Justice Ventures, which empowers entrepreneurs to develop scalable solutions for legal consumers.
She noted AI's potential to help Legal Aid offices
- First drafts of Content Generation
- How to navigate the flow of a process
- Triage on Intake? how to get people to the info they need, quickly
- Translation services?
- Video and Audio Content?
- Referrals to Community Organizations in Your Community that handle Your kind of Problem
Sam Flynn (He/him) is the chief operating officer and co-founder at Josef, and leads Josef’s business operations, governance, marketing and customer success functions. Josef is no-code automation platform that empowers legal professionals to change the way they work. Sam has worked in advertising, as a lawyer and as an associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria, BC Canada.
He remarked that progress on AI solutions is faster than anyone predicted. Five years ahead of what most people predicted.
Tom Martin is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author, and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd., a legal AI company dedicated to helping lawyers automate their law practice. He is co-founder of the American Legal Technology Awards, which announced its inaugural honoree class in September 2020. And in 2022, he was named an ABA Journal Legal Rebel.
Martin is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to the ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG Technology Innovation Committee, board member of Group Legal Services Association, and mentor at the Yale Tsai Center Innovative Thinking.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Martin now lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and two daughters. He has a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.
Justia on YouTube
entrepreneur and web expert Tim Stanley, a pioneer in legal technology since 1999, offers frequent, interesting updates, meant for lawyers, but also interesting to anyone curious about how new technologies are affect law practice.
This particular episode was very interesting, for its insights into how ChatGPT works, and the powerful things it can produce.
LawDriod Blog
A blog run by Tom Martin, legal innovator.
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