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Client Service
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Many lawyers are exploring alternatives to the traditional full-service, pay-by-the-hour representation model.
Learn MoreLegal Education
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Some schools are investing in practical skills or innovation education while others are dabbling, but many others have yet to try anything new.
Key Innovators
Caitlin (Cat) Moon, Daniel Martin Katz, Renee Knake Jefferson, Michele DeStefano, and Benjamin Barton
Learn MoreAccess to Justice
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Still a long way from where we need to be.
Key Innovators
Rebecca Sandefur and Deborah Rhode
Sub Topics
Access to Lawyers, Access to Courts & Judges, Access to Outcomes/Solutions, Access to Law, Accessibility, and Access to Understanding
Learn MoreCloud Computing
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Widely accepted as just normal computing now.
Key Innovators
Jack Newton, Larry Port, and Matt Spiegel
Learn MoreWorkflow Automation
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In progress, but moving slowly due to obstacles like the need to customize automations for each application.
Sub Topics
Document Assembly & Automation
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 MoreArtificial Intelligence
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AI is widely used, but there is still massive unrealized potential.
Key Innovators
Noah Waisberg, Alexander Hudek, and Michael Mills
Sub Topics
Expert Systems and Machine Learning
Learn MoreLimited-Scope Representation
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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.
Key Innovators
Forrest (Woody) Mosten
Learn MoreBig Data & Business Intelligence
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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
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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 MoreRegulatory Reform
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Several jurisdictions are considering reforms, and a few are even taking baby steps.
Learn MoreRace & Gender Equity
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We've made a lot of progress, but we've got a lot of hard work ahead of us.
Learn MoreInnovators
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Charley Moore
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Access to Lawyers, Access to Outcomes/Solutions, Expert Systems, and Limited-Scope Representation
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Rocket Lawyer
Natalie Anne Knowlton
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Access to Justice
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Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS)
Jess Birken
Working On
Access to Outcomes/Solutions and Limited-Scope Representation
Nicole Bradick
Working On
Access to Justice
Omar Ha-Redeye
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Legal Education
D. Casey Flaherty
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Client Service
Damien Riehl
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Artificial Intelligence and Big Data & Business Intelligence
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Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance and Fastcase
David Colarusso
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Artificial Intelligence and Legal Education
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Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
Quinten Steenhuis
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Legal Education and Access to Justice
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Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
Elmer Masters
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Legal Education
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Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
John Mayer
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Expert Systems and Legal Education
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A2J Author and Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
Rebecca Sandefur
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Legal Education, Access to Lawyers, Access to Law, Access to Justice, and Artificial Intelligence
Carl Malamud
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Access to Law, Legal Education, and Artificial Intelligence
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Public.Resource.Org
Sam Harden
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Access to Justice
Larry Lessig
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Access to Law
Ed Walters
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, and Access to Law
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Fastcase
Lainey Feingold
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Accessibility
Forrest (Woody) Mosten
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Limited-Scope Representation
Natalie Worsfold
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Artificial Intelligence
Peter Aprile
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Artificial Intelligence
V. David Zvenyach
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Accessibility and Access to Understanding
Joshua Browder
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Outcomes/Solutions
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DoNotPay
Tim Stanley
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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
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Access to Lawyers
Deborah Rhode
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Access to Justice and Regulatory Reform
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CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Jason Morris
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Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Barton
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Legal Education
Amélie-Sophie Vavrosky
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Document Assembly & Automation
Tony Webster
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Access to Law
Alma Asay
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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
Mark Lemley
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Artificial Intelligence
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CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and Lex Machina
Joshua Walker
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Artificial Intelligence
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Lex Machina and CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
Jae Um
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Big Data & Business Intelligence
William D. Henderson
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Legal Education
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Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP)
Daniel Martin Katz
Working On
Legal Education
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Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) and ReInvent Law Laboratory
Jared Jaskot
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Artificial Intelligence and Client Service
Greg Siskind
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Expert Systems, Access to Outcomes/Solutions, and Access to Understanding
Jennifer Gerstenzang
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Access to Understanding and Client Service
Megan Zavieh
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Client Service and Limited-Scope Representation
Bahar Ansari
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Client Service and Cloud Computing
Brooke Moore
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Access to Lawyers and Client Service
Kimberly Bennett
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Limited-Scope Representation and Client Service
Simone Spence
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Access to Outcomes/Solutions
Blaine Korte
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Limited-Scope Representation
Mary Juetten
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Expert Systems
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Fastcase
Associated Innovators
Damien Riehl, Michael Sander, Itai Gurari, Ed Walters, and Janine Sickmeyer
Paladin
Associated Innovators
Felicity Conrad and Kristen Sonday
Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab
Associated Innovators
Adam Ziegler
Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)
Associated Innovators
Sam Muller
DoNotPay
Associated Innovators
Joshua Browder
Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance
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Damien Riehl
LawWithoutWalls
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Michele DeStefano
Casetext
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Laura Safdie, Pablo Arredondo, and Jake Heller
docassemble
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Jonathan Pyle
British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal
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Shannon Salter
Neota Logic
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Michael Mills
Docket Alarm
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Michael Sander
Free Law Project
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Ansel Halliburton and Mike Lissner
LegalZoom
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Eddie Hartman
LAWCLERK
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Kristin Tyler, Talitha Gray Kozlowski, and Greg Garman
The Cornell Legal Information Institute
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Thomas R. Bruce
Suffolk University Legal Innovation & Technology Lab
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Quinten Steenhuis and David Colarusso
Justia
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Tim Stanley
NextChapter
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Janine Sickmeyer
Public.Resource.Org
Associated Innovators
Tim Stanley and Carl Malamud
Clio
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Rian Gavreau and Jack Newton
MyCase
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Matt Spiegel
ROSS Intelligence
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Jimoh Ovbiagele and Andrew Arruda
Rocket Lawyer
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Charley Moore
Rocket Matter
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Larry Port
PainWorth
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Chris Trudel and Mike Zouhri
Legalese
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Alexis Natalie Chun and Wong Meng Weng
Afterpattern
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Thomas Officer, Michael Hassin, and Scott Kelly
Hire an Esquire
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Julia Shapiro and Jules Miller
Modria
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Chittu Nagarajan and Colin Rule
Lex Machina
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Mark Lemley, Joshua Walker, and Ansel Halliburton
Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP)
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William D. Henderson
ReInvent Law Laboratory
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Renee Knake Jefferson and Daniel Martin Katz
CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
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Deborah Rhode, Mark Lemley, and Joshua Walker
Courtroom5
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Debra Slone and Sonja Ebron
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS)
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Daniel Martin Katz and Natalie Anne Knowlton
Kira Systems
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Alexander Hudek and Noah Waisberg
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
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Elmer Masters and John Mayer
A2J Author
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John Mayer
CanLII
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Sarah Sutherland and Shannon Salter
Axiom
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Alec Guettel and Mark Harris
FindLaw
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Tim Stanley
TI:GER
Associated Innovators
Nicole Morris
Published on January 14th, 2021. Last updated on April 27th, 2021, by Sam Glover.