Knake: Syllabus and Slides: Twenty-First Century Law Practice

Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University College of Law and the ReInventLaw Lab has posted the syllabus and slides of her course entitled 21st Century Law Practice: New Models and Markets, being offered during the MSU Law – Westminster Law 21st Century Law Practice Summer Program 2013 in London.

Here is the course description:

This course will provide students with an overview of the practice challenges facing lawyers in the 21st century, including economic pressures, technological advancements, increased globalization, international deregulation, and access to justice concerns. Building upon this background, the course will then explore a set of case studies to examine a variety of innovative new legal services delivery mechanisms and businesses in the US and the UK, such as Axiom, LegalZoom, QualitySolicitors, and others that have been created in anticipation of (or in some cases in response to) these challenges. Students will critically assess these legal service providers, and will reflect upon how lawyers and regulators should respond. Credit for this course is one hour.

HT @reneeknake

ReInventLaw Channel: Videos of Talks at ReInventLaw Events

The ReInventLaw Channel is now available, providing access to videos of presentations given at ReInventLaw conferences.

The presentations cover topics including innovation in legal technology and legal services delivery.

The channel currently includes videos of presentations given at ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 and LawTechCamp London 2012.

The channel is produced by the ReInventLaw Lab at Michigan State University College of Law.

HT @computational

Knake on Democratizing Legal Education

Professor Renee Newman Knake of Michigan State University and the ReInventLaw Lab has posted Democratizing Legal Education, forthcoming in Connecticut Law Review.

Here is the abstract:

Millions of Americans lack representation for their legal problems while thousands of lawyers are unemployed. Why? Commentators and academics offer a range of answers to this question, from economic factors to regulatory constraints. Whatever the root cause, clearly a massive delivery problem exists for personal legal services. Most individuals simply do not realize when a lawyer might be necessary or helpful. This Article, written at the invitation of the Connecticut Law Review for their Volume 45 Symposium entitled “Are Law School’s Passing the Bar? Examining the Demands and Limitations of the Legal Education Market,” suggests that democratizing legal education — i.e., systematically providing basic information about how to access legal services to the general public — offers a solution to the unmet need for those services, as well as to the unemployment crisis among the legal profession more broadly. Law schools have an important role to play in this effort. This article offers three recommendations.

The recommendations are:

First, law schools can fuel innovation in new markets and in methods for delivery, thereby leading to greater public awareness of legal services. Second, schools and regulators should work together to reduce the cost and time involved in training and licensing for lawyers who desire to engage in limited practice areas that are underserved, such as housing, domestic relations, and child custody. Third, law schools should educate the public about law, lawyers, and legal services through programs that also enhance student learning.

Proposals invited for talks at ReInventLaw London 2013

Proposals are now invited for talks at the ReInventLaw London 2013 Conference, to be held 14 June 2013, in London, England.

The proposal submission deadline is 5 April 2013.

The conference is organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake of the ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.

Talks will be chosen by a crowdsourced voting process.

Here are the proposal guidelines:

Talks must relate to some aspect of law + technology + innovation + entrepreneurship.

This is about big ideas—no sales pitches or product pushing.

Submit a talk pitch of 300 words or a link to a 30 second YouTube video by midnight April 5, 2013.

Voting opens after submission window is complete at http://www.ReInventLawLondon.com

One person, one vote—but feel free to encourage colleagues, friends, family and more to vote for your pitch!

Winners will have up to 10 minutes to speak, and will then respond to dynamic, real-time, audience-driven Q&A. [...]

For more details, please see the conference Website.

For the conference program, Twitter details, and posts about the event, please see the comments to this post.

HT @reneeknake

8 March: ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 Conference

ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: a conference on “technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry,” is being held 8 March 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #reinventlaw

Click here for archived Twitter tweets from ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013, in .csv format.

The speakers for the event have also been announced.

Click here for the conference schedule.

The event is sponsored by The ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law and is organized by the Reinvent Law Lab‘s co-directors, Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Admission is free.

Videos of conference presentations will be available at ReInventLawChannel on or after 1 April 2013.

For posts and links related to the conference please see the comments to this post.

For more information, please see the event’s Website.

Registration Open for ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013 Legal Technology & Innovation Conference

Registration is now open for ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: a conference on “technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the legal services industry,” to be held 8 March 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #reinventlaw

The speakers for the event have also been announced.

The event is sponsored by The ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law and is organized by the Reinvent Law Lab‘s co-directors, Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Admission is free.

The event description says that “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!”

For more information, please see the event’s Website.

Tweets and Resources for ReInventLaw Dubai 2012

Twitter tweets from ReInventLaw Dubai 2012: “an ‘un’conference devoted to law, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship”, held 10 December 2012 in Dubai, UAE, are archived here in .csv format.

Click here for the event’s Website.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #ReInventLawDubai

Click here for the event’s program.

The event was sponsored by The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law, and was co-organized by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

ReinventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: Legal Technology Unconference

ReInventLaw Silicon Valley 2013: an unconference on “law, technology, social media, innovation, and entrepreneurship,” will be held 8 March 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA.

The event is sponsored by The ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law and is organized by the Reinvent Law Lab‘s co-directors, Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake.

Admission is free.

The event description says that “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!”

For more information, please see the event’s Website.

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.

Katz and Knake’s ReInventLaw Laboratory Awarded $150,000 Grant by the Kauffman Foundation

The ReInventLaw Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law — co-founded by Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz and Professor Renee Newman Knake — has received a $150,000 grant from the Kauffman Foundation, according to a press release issued today by the college.

According to the press release, the Kauffman Foundation issued the following remarks about the grant:

“This program will expand access to legal services by creating a new vehicle for the delivery — including lower barriers to entrepreneurial entry into the legal system,” said Dane Stangler, director of research at the Kauffman Foundation. “This grant derives from Kauffman’s Law, Innovation and Growth initiative, which supports research on how best to shape the U.S. legal system so that it promotes innovation and growth.”

According to the laboratory’s Website, ReInventLaw will focus on training law students in “innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship” respecting legal services performance and delivery.

For more information, please see the ReInventLaw Website.

HT @computational