Proposals invited for lawTechCamp 2013

Proposals for sessions are invited for lawTechCamp 2013, “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals,” to be held 8 June 2013 in Toronto, Canada.

Click here for the conference program.

The Twitter hashtags for the conference were #lawtech and #lawtechcamp

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the conference.

lawTechCamp 2013 is being organized by Monica Goyal of MyLegalBriefcase, Mitch Kowalski, and Sapna Mahboobani of Sapna Law Professional Corporation.

Here are details on the session proposals:

LawTechCamp is all about you, the participants. We want the participants, to dictate what sessions are covered at lawTechCamp, and to present them. The only thing to remember is that topics should bridge technology and law in some way. This could mean technology that could help in the practice of law. Or legal issues that affect the development of technology.

Last year, we had a sessions on knowledge management, social media and the law, IP issues, and cloud computing.

If we receive more suggestions then rooms available for the event, we will put the suggestions to a vote. [...]

For more details, please see the event Website.

Click here for information on previous lawTechCamp events.

Call for Proposals: ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: An ‘Un’conference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

A call for presentation proposals — with submission deadline of 15 October 2012 — has been issued for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship” — to be held 10 December 2012 at Media City in Dubai.

The organizers particularly welcome presentations about innovations in legal services or legal education. Presentations can take the form of 6 Minute Ignite Style Presentations or 12 Minute “TED Style” Presentations.

Registration is free.

The event Website describes the event as follows:

ReInvent Law Dubai is an “un”conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Anyone interested in the future of law or technology or entrepreneurship will want to participate. Come hear about the innovative ideas generated by the highly-engaging atmosphere of the event!

The event is being sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and is modeled on the LawTechCamp London 2012 event held last summer.

For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Dubai 2012 Website.

HT @computational.

ReInvent Law Dubai 2012: Unconference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

ReInvent Law Dubai 2012: Unconference on Law, Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship will be held 10 December 2012 at Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE, according to an announcement at Computational Legal Studies.

The event’s organizers will be Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake, both of the Michigan State University College of Law and its new ReInvent Law Laboratory.

According to the event brochure:

ReInvent Law Dubai is an (un)conference focusing on law, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Building upon the success of the recent London event, leaders in the fields of law, technology and beyond will come together to share ideas about innovation in the delivery of legal services.

This event is Free, Open and Participatory. Anyone can propose a topic. Entrepreneurs, new media/technology enthusiasts, legal professionals, social networkers, and those curious about future innovation in law and technology will want to attend.

The Michigan State University College of Law Graduate Program at MSU Dubai is a primary sponsor.

For more information, please see the announcement.

HT @computational.

June 29: LawTechCamp London

LawTechCamp London 2012 — “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals” — will be held 29 June 2012 in London, England, UK.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawtechcamplondon.

Click here for archived Twitter tweets — in .csv format — from the event.

Click here for the conference program.

A notable characteristic of this event is that it gathers together in one place individuals from most of the different subgroups of the legal informatics community.

The event’s organizers include:

• Daniel Martin Katz, Michigan State University College of Law
• Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law
• Monica Goyal, owner and CEO of MyLegalBriefcase.com
• Lisa Webley, University of Westminster Law School
• John Flood, University of Westminster Law School
• David Allison, The College of Law
• Jon Harman, The College of Law 

HT @reneeknake.

Program Posted for LawTechCamp London 2012

The program has been posted for LawTechCamp London 2012 — “a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals” — to be held 29 June 2012 in London, England, UK.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #lawtechcamplondon.

A notable characteristic of this event is that it gathers together in one place individuals from most of the different subgroups of the legal informatics community.

The event’s organizers include:

• Daniel Martin Katz, Michigan State University College of Law
• Renee Newman Knake, Michigan State University College of Law
• Monica Goyal, owner and CEO of MyLegalBriefcase.com
• Lisa Webley, University of Westminster Law School
• John Flood, University of Westminster Law School
• David Allison, The College of Law
• Jon Harman, The College of Law 

HT @reneeknake.

Videos Available for lawTechCamp 2012 Toronto

Videos have been posted for many of the presentations given at lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology Unconference, held 12 May 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Click here for the conference program.

HT @monicangoyal.

For information about the upcoming LawTechCamp London 2012, to be held 29 June 2012 (with presentation submission deadline of 25 May 2012) (hashtag #LawTechCampLondon), click here.

May 12: lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology UnConference

[NOTE: Click here for videos of presentations given at lawTechCamp Toronto 2012.]

lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology Unconference, will be held 12 May 2012 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #ltcto2012. The Twitter account for the conference is @lawtechcamp.

Click here for the conference program.

Click here for the mobile app for the conference.

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Call for Session Proposals: lawTechCamp 2012

A call for session proposals has been issued for lawTechCamp 2012 unconference, to be held 12 May 2012 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Topics — which “should bridge technology and law in some way” — include “technology that could help in the practice of law” and “knowledge management for solo lawyers.”

The conference Website describes lawTechCamp 2012 in the following way:

lawTechCamp is a BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media and technology enthusiasts and legal professionals including bloggers, twitters, legal-technology lawyers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media and the law.  

lawTechCamp is not just for lawyers.  If you are interested in the intersection of law and technology, such as legal issues facing startups, access to justice issues, or someone just interested in technology or law, then please join us – and bring a friend or colleague.

This event is casual, with active participation between the audience and the workshop presenters and event-attendees. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

The conference is co-sponsored by The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

According to the conference co-organizer Monica Goyal:

We are looking for speakers and attendees [...]. It is meant to be an unconference, and we hope to do it for free again this year. And we are looking for other sponsors. [...] I would love to see this grow to other states. The sharing of ideas and community building, I believe are antecedents to technology creation.

Click here for registration information.

For more information, please see the call for session proposals.

HT Monica Goyal.

Goyal on Legal Technology Innovation and lawTechCamp

Monica Goyal, J.D., M.Sc., of MyLegalBriefcase has published Why Tech Innovation Comes Slow in Legal Profession, on itbusiness.ca.

The post describes the panel discussion on “Legal Techs in a Brave New World” at lawTechCamp 2011, held 18 June 2011 in Toronto.

In this post, Ms. Goyal identifies several factors that inhibit legal technology innovation, including lawyers’ general lack of education in science and engineering, unduly strict regulation of the legal services market, and a lack of funding. Ms. Goyal highlights the current process in the UK of deregulating the legal services market, as a model for reform in other jurisdictions.

In addition, Connie Crosby recently wrote a post summarizing lawTechCamp 2011 at Slaw.ca, the Canadian legal blog.

Discussions begun during lawTechCamp 2011 are being continued in a LinkedIn group.

June 18: lawTechcamp: Legal Technology Unconference, Toronto

lawTechcamp, a legal technology unconference, will be held 18 June 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The conference is organized by Monica Goyal, Esq., of My Legal Briefcase.

Twitter tweets from lawTechcamp are archived here in .csv format.

Ms. Goyal and the unconference were recently profiled in The Globe and Mail.

Click here for descriptions of the sessions and biographies of the speakers.

Speakers at lawTechCamp include Colin Lachance, the new president of CanLII, and Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University College of Law and Computational Legal Studies.