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The team over here at NELIC headquarters has been super excited about how the legal automation session is shaping up for the conference. We’ve got Pablo Arredondo with Occam, Inc., speaking about the moving frontier of startups in the legal automation space. We’ve also got Michael Poulshock, talking about how automation is changing the way the government processes legal work.
We’ve been looking for a third person to round out the panel, talking about how automation is hitting legal practice, particularly among the more nimble and progressive firms. Glad to say we’ve found the perfect person for that slot, and are excited to announce that she’s officially agreed to participate in NELIC this year!
Ayelette Robinson is the Director of Knowledge Technology and Knowledge Management Counsel at Littler Mendelson P.C., where she is responsible for the design, development and implementation of the firm’s technology-based knowledge management systems. She’s also the San Francisco rep for the International Legal Technology Association. As if that weren’t enough, she’s also one of the regular contributors behind one of RR&H’s favorite Three Geeks and a Law Blog. Excited to have her!
Schedule updated as per usual — have a good weekend!
Sorry about the delay in posting, dear readers! We’ve been busily cranking away at getting some final speakers into place for our panels and spreading the word about the conference (with a quick trip out to the annual SXSW Interactive festival in between), so just now getting a chance to drop an update out to the blog.
Today, glad to be back on track filling out our already awesome list of panelists. Specifically, glad to announce that the Vice President of Creative Commons Mike Linksvayer will be joining our panel on designing legal interfaces! Creative Commons is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that supports a permissive copyright licensing framework that allows people to freely share and remix media.
The design of their licensing framework and their dead-simple copyright deed generator are premiere examples of what can be done in assembling streamlined “human-readable” interfaces for non-lawyers to easily manage the law and legal transactions. He’ll be talking about CC’s approaches to user experience on this front, and its massive impact worldwide.
We’re thrilled to have him on the panel. Schedule updated, stay tuned for more tomorrow!
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It’s always great to get some home-field support for a first time event, and so I’m terrifically excited to officially announce today that Berkeley Law’s very own Center for Law and Technology has come on board as a conference partner with NELIC for April!
If you’re not familiar with the work of BCLT, you should definitely check it out. The center plays host to some of the biggest intellectual titans currently going in the IP and technology policy space, and runs a fantastic series of conferences and speakers on the intersections between the law and a sprawling universe of issues in privacy, electronic commerce, digital entertainment, cleantech, telecommunications regulation, and beyond.
We couldn’t have picked a better crew of folks to team up with (thanks again to Robert Barr for giving us a shot), excited to have them with us in April!
As promised, the partners of Robot Robot & Hwang are very proud today to officially open registration for the first-ever New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference!
As announced earlier, it will be a one-day conference happening on April 15th here at Berkeley Law School. We’ll be bringing together the lawyers, entrepreneurs, and technologists who are working to build the biggest disruptive technologies in the legal industry. Our aim is to provide a meeting point for a deep and substantive discussion about the long-term impact of these technologies, and how they might come to be broadly adapted in the industry as a whole. The full schedule is available here.
We’ve set up a page at Eventbrite to manage the registration, you can snag a conference pass here.
We have an early bird registration at $60 for the full day of events, that will rise as we get into April. Let us know if there’s any questions or if there’s any issues with Eventbrite by dropping an e-mail to tim@robotandhwang.com.
As promised, this week has a whole slew of news coming out from NELIC conference headquarters.
Today, I’m very excited to announce that we’ve confirmed that Franny Lee will be joining us for the conference in April! Franny is a former composer and jazz musician, and a graduate of Stanford Law School in their Law, Science, and Technology program. In the past, she has worked as an intellectual property litigator at Cassels Brock & Blackwell in Toronto, and has provided advice and guidance to the Copyright Board of Canada. She’s currently a Resident Fellow at the Stanford Center for Computer and Law.
At the conference, she’ll be speaking on our legal interfaces session, tackling the implications and best practices around the creation of “human-readable” systems that make it easy for even non-lawyers navigate legal work and transactions. Specifically, she’ll be discussing her work on the soon-to-be-launched Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange, a service that is aiming to provide a streamlined online marketplace for managing copyright clearances. It’s groundbreaking stuff, in our humble opinions, and NELIC is absolutely thrilled to have her.
We’ve updated our schedule as per usual. And, true to our word, registration for the conference will be officially opening up tomorrow! Stay tuned.
It’s been a crazy weekend of developments here at NELIC conference planning headquarters, but I just wanted to take a moment to jot out a quick note this morning to announce that Harvard University’s Law Lab has come on board as a sponsor for NELIC in April!
The Law Lab is the brainchild project of our friends over at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is affiliated with the Kauffman Foundation. The project is devoted to investigating and experimenting with the various forces — evolutionary, social, psychological, neurological and economic — that shape the function of the law. They’ve worked on a variety of projects that touch upon the legal technology aspects of NELIC, including an open-source project to easily manage Vermont’s virtual LLC’s, and the streamlined automation of contract term sheets for entrepreneurs. We’re thrilled to have them aboard.
In any case, much more to come out this week, including more speakers, sponsors, and we’ll be opening up registration on Wednesday! Stay tuned!
As promised, we’ve got another speaker coming out of the gate today — excited to announce that our friend Michael Poulshock will be joined on the panel about legal automation by entrepreneur Pablo Arredondo.
Like many of the other speakers so far confirmed for NELIC, Pablo is a fellow at the Stanford Center for Computers and the Law, where his research focuses on the interface of information technology with the work of litigation. He currently co-founder and CEO of Occam, Inc., a startup that focusing on the technology of legal informatics and automation. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, and before working on Occam represented a variety of technology companies in patent litigation on the district and appellate level.
Thrilled to have him! We’ve updated the schedule accordingly, as per usual.
We’re thrilled to kick off the next round of announcements for speakers by announcing that Michael Poulshock will be participating on our session on legal automation!
Michael is the CEO of Poulshock Consulting, where he provides consulting services on legal automation to the government and has worked in the past with the IRS and the Kansas Department of Labor. He’ll be talking about the evolving space of large-scale legal automation in the government, and the impact on the practice of law into the future.
In the past, Michael was the founder of the Jureeka project, a fellow at Stanford’s CodeX and was a principal legal knowledge engineer at Oracle, where he worked on implementing legal decision systems. We’re pumped to have him.
Schedule updated as per usual, stay tuned for more tomorrow!
And, today, I’m pleased to round out the quantitative legal data mining and prediction roster by announcing our final panelist of that session. Excited to confirm that Itai Gurari will be speaking on the panel, joining already-announced panelists Josh Walker and Dan Katz. Itai is a lawyer and software engineer currently working on the immense project that is Google Scholar, where he is working to develop legal search solutions around the authoritativeness and content of cases.
He formerly worked as a litigation associate at Jones Day, and was a researcher with the big brains over at IBM’s Haifa Research Lab. He is also the founder of Tracelaw, a project that focuses on case law search and semantic analysis.
Thrilled to have him! Stay tuned tomorrow — we’ll begin announcing the guests that we’ve confirmed for the panel on legal automation, and we’re planning to have registration open up formally later this week.
As promised, another speaker announcement coming out over the blog-waves today, excited to announce that researcher Dan Katz will be participating on our NELIC session on quantitative data mining and prediction in the legal system! Dan is PhD Candidate and currently a fellow in Empirical Legal Studies over at the University of Michigan. He’s also fellow at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
The NELIC team came across Dan’s work fairly recently – and it’s amazing stuff. He’s been working on large scale network analysis of the legal system and looking at a variety of topics in that space. That includes mapping the topology of the judiciary to detect systematic change in legal doctrines, tracing the complexity of systems of statutes, and a host of others you definitely need to check out if you haven’t seen it already.
To boot, he’s also one of the proprietors of the endlessly great resource that is the Computational Legal Studies blog. We’re thrilled to have him. We’ve updated the schedule accordingly — stay tuned for more tomorrow!
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