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Race & Gender Equity
Race and gender inequity are problems that need solving, perhaps more urgently than any of the other problems driving the innovations on this website.
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We've made a lot of progress, but we've got a lot of hard work ahead of us.
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AI is one of the most exciting areas for legal innovation right now, once you separate the hype from the reality.
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AI is widely used, but there is still massive unrealized potential.
Learn MoreBig Data & Business Intelligence
Data is not exactly the new oil, but data analytics can deliver better answers, faster, to help us solve complex problems.
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Data powers many of the services we rely on, but its potential is just beginning to be realized.
Learn MoreAlternative Dispute Resolution
Modern ADR is fertile ground for innovation, especially when it comes to technology-enabled forms of ADR.
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ADR is popular and effective, with innovation mostly focused on making it more accessible, including online dispute resolution.
Key Innovators
Shannon Salter, Colin Rule, and Chittu Nagarajan
Learn MoreOutsourcing
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Outsourcing has become a popular option for law firms and legal departments to quickly add capacity and hire expertise.
Key Innovators
Julia Shapiro, Jules Miller, Alec Guettel, and Mark Harris
Learn MoreAccess to Justice
In many ways this entire website is about attempts to solve aspects of the access-to-justice problem, including access to lawyers, courts, outcomes, and law.
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Still a long way from where we need to be.
Key Innovators
Rebecca Sandefur
Learn MoreCloud Computing
Cloud computing has changed the way we think about, use, and pay for software.
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Widely accepted as just normal computing now.
Key Innovators
Jack Newton, Larry Port, and Matt Spiegel
Learn MoreLimited-Scope Representation
Based on the idea that lawyers can do less for clients (but not less than they need) as a way of lowering the cost of hiring a lawyer.
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Limited-scope representation is fairly well known among lawyers, but it is not clear how popular it actually is in practice.
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Forrest (Woody) Mosten
Learn MoreLegal Education
Increasingly, law schools are looking for opportunities to add courses in legal technology, design thinking, practice management, and other topics designed to prepare graduates for a world in which lawyers must do more than just think about legal problems.
Key Innovators
Caitlin (Cat) Moon
Learn MoreRegulatory Reform
The ethics rules sometimes get in the way of progress, but some jurisdictions are working to change that.
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Several jurisdictions are considering reforms, and a few are even taking baby steps.
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Quinten Steenhuis
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Legal Education and Access to Justice
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Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
Mary Juetten
Working On
Expert Systems
Elmer Masters
Working On
Legal Education
Associated With
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
John Mayer
Working On
Expert Systems and Legal Education
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A2J Author and Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
Nicole Bradick
Working On
Access to Justice
Omar Ha-Redeye
Working On
Legal Education
Jonathan Pyle
Working On
Expert Systems, Machine Learning, and Access to Outcomes/Solutions
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docassemble
Damien Riehl
Working On
Access to Understanding, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data & Business Intelligence
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Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance and Fastcase
Rebecca Sandefur
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Access to Lawyers, Access to Law, and Access to Justice
David Colarusso
Working On
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Education
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Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
Sam Harden
Working On
Access to Justice
Larry Lessig
Working On
Access to Law
Ed Walters
Working On
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Access to Law
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Fastcase
Lainey Feingold
Working On
Accessibility
Forrest (Woody) Mosten
Working On
Limited-Scope Representation
Natalie Worsfold
Working On
Artificial Intelligence
Peter Aprile
Working On
Artificial Intelligence
V. David Zvenyach
Working On
Accessibility and Access to Understanding
Joshua Browder
Working On
Artificial Intelligence and Access to Outcomes/Solutions
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DoNotPay
Tim Stanley
Working On
Access to Law, Access to Justice, and Access to Understanding
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FindLaw, Justia, and Public.Resource.Org
Erin Levine
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Limited-Scope Representation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Shantelle Argyle
Working On
Access to Lawyers
Alma Asay
Working On
Cloud Computing
Billie Tarascio
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Limited-Scope Representation and Access to Justice
Shannon Salter
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Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Outcomes/Solutions
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British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal and CanLII
Alan Sugarman
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Access to Law
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Paladin
Associated Innovators
Felicity Conrad and Kristen Sonday
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
Associated Innovators
Elmer Masters and John Mayer
A2J Author
Associated Innovators
John Mayer
Casetext
Associated Innovators
Laura Safdie, Pablo Arredondo, and Jake Heller
docassemble
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Jonathan Pyle
Fastcase
Associated Innovators
Damien Riehl, Michael Sander, Itai Gurari, Ed Walters, and Janine Sickmeyer
ROSS Intelligence
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Andrew Arruda
Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance
Associated Innovators
Damien Riehl
Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)
Associated Innovators
Sam Muller
CanLII
Associated Innovators
Sarah Sutherland and Shannon Salter
Docket Alarm
Associated Innovators
Michael Sander
Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
Associated Innovators
Quinten Steenhuis and David Colarusso
British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal
Associated Innovators
Shannon Salter
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab
Associated Innovators
Adam Ziegler
Neota Logic
Associated Innovators
Michael Mills
Modria
Associated Innovators
Chittu Nagarajan and Colin Rule
Axiom
Associated Innovators
Alec Guettel and Mark Harris
Hire an Esquire
Associated Innovators
Julia Shapiro and Jules Miller
LAWCLERK
Associated Innovators
Kristin Tyler, Talitha Gray Kozlowski, and Greg Garman
Public.Resource.Org
Associated Innovators
Tim Stanley and Carl Malamud
DoNotPay
Associated Innovators
Joshua Browder
LawWithoutWalls
Associated Innovators
Michele DeStefano
FindLaw
Associated Innovators
Tim Stanley
Justia
Associated Innovators
Tim Stanley
UC Hastings Law School
Associated Innovators
Alice Armitage
Free Law Project
Associated Innovators
Ansel Halliburton and Mike Lissner
The Cornell Legal Information Institute
Associated Innovators
Thomas R. Bruce
TI:GER
Associated Innovators
Nicole Morris
Vanderbilt Law School
Associated Innovators
Caitlin (Cat) Moon
MyCase
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Matt Spiegel
Rocket Matter
Associated Innovators
Larry Port
Clio
Associated Innovators
Rian Gavreau and Jack Newton
NextChapter
Associated Innovators
Janine Sickmeyer
Published on January 14th, 2021. Last updated on March 3rd, 2021, by Sam Glover.