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The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J

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In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. We talk often of the justice gap in this country — of the fact that the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems.

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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

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legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. One is the gaping lack of access to justice. Malamud asked rhetorically.

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At The TLTF Summit, It Was All About Making ‘Who Luck’ Happen, To Drive the Future of Legal Tech

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A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether an alternative business structure, licensed under Arizona’s liberalized legal regulatory scheme, could deliver legal services in other states. Is there a trickle-down effect in legal tech? I think it does, at least sometimes.

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TechReport 2021: Technology Training

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With the ever-increasing reliance on technology, 83% of respondents report that their firms have some form of policy governing technology (compared with 77% in 2020, 74% in 2019, and 71% in 2018). Accordingly, data from larger firms that would have a larger budget are not well represented in the average. Policies and Procedures.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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Our customers consist of nonprofit legal departments, small and medium law firms, local government agencies, and law school clinics. Elevator pitch: Fourth Party provides modern solutions to legacy problems within the legal space – particularly alternative dispute resolution. Traction: We have more than 200 users.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 17 – Jennifer Leonard

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When I moved over to government work, because of the constraints of resources, you’re just sort of thrown into the fire and forced to grow on your own. We also focus on leading conversations across the profession of leaders who are doing really interesting things in legal. CHRIS: That sounds like pretty cool work.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

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Our customers consist of nonprofit legal departments, small and medium law firms, local government agencies, and law school clinics. Elevator pitch: Fourth Party provides modern solutions to legacy problems within the legal space – particularly alternative dispute resolution. Traction: We have more than 200 users.