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2 December BC Civil Resolution Tribunal reports monthly figures with continued high satisfaction ratings – 84 per cent would recommend it to others. 3 December Project Callisto, developed for sexual harassment campus university reporting, announces that it will be growing from 12 to 25 campuses in 2020. 7 December New York Times reports that … Continue reading That was the Month that Was: December 2019
Gabriel Teninbaum is a professor. He is director of Suffolk University Law School’s Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology. I have never met him. But, he posted an interesting tweet on 12 December: ‘Can anyone point me to an existing taxonomy of legal tech? I’m not as interested in specific products as categories of tools, … Continue reading Access to Justice Tech: Towards a Taxonomy
The Law Foundation of Ontario has invested over $CAN400,000 (£230,000, $US302,000 or 273,000 euros) in six research projects designed to report on how technology is being used to provide access to access to justice. Its approach contrasts with that manifest, for example, in the NESTA Legal Access Challenge or the Legal Services Corporation’s Technical Initiatives … Continue reading Access to justice and technology: Ontario to explore what works
The Law Society of England and Wales is getting its act together over Legal Tech. It has just published a comparative analysis of the adoption of legal tech in the UK and in other jurisdictions. Access to justice plays a minor part in this study but the state of law tech provides its surrounding context. … Continue reading Legaltech and the Law Society: a comparative analysis
Friday in London saw a presentation at Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the City of London’s large commercial law firms, of FLOWS, Finding Legal Options for Women Survivors. This, in many ways, represents an excellent example of some of the successful uses of technology in the access to justice field. It also, alas, raises one … Continue reading Finding Legal Options for Women Survivors – technology magnifying rather than disrupting existing provision