It is not uncommon to hear of venture capital’s hesitancy to invest in legal tech startups. The challenges are many: a long sales cycle, cultural conservatism and entrenched processes to name a few. Within the academic community, we’ve heard a similar reason for not investing in evolving and increasingly important legal tools. A law school […]
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Speaking at COLPM Annual Meeting
I am looking forward to giving a TED talk style presentation at the College of Law Practice Management 2014 Futures Conference. I’m calling it “I-Alladdin: A Legal Magic Carpet Ride.” If you are in the Boston area, October 16-17th, consider attending at Suffolk University Law School. I’ll post the slides from this presentation after I […]
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Keynote at Legal Tech Startup Weekend in San Francisco
I gave the keynote at the Legal Tech Startup Weekend in San Francisco. Here are the slides from that presentation.
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Inconsistency Robustness and the Law
These are slides from a presentation for the conference on Inconsistency Robustness at Stanford University, July 29-31, 2014. I presented an overview of Inconsistency Robustness and the Law. Inconsistency Robustness and the Law: A Random Walk from Ron Dolin
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Feedback on California Judicial Branch Tech Report
This is feedback I provided to the California Judicial Branch on their report: Technology Governance, Strategy, and Funding Proposal: Executive Summary. Feedback on Technology Governance, Strategy, and Funding Proposal: Executive Summary for California Judicial Branch from Ron Dolin
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Investing in Legal Technology
My contribution to the legal community as an investor was covered in the ABA Journal entitled “These venture capitalists skip law firms for legal services startups”. From the interview: “When you’re working on something like legal aid, that’s not likely to lead to for-profit startups,” Dolin says. “But in consumer law, there’s plenty of room […]
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Integration of Legal Technology in the Law School Curricula
I co-authored an article with Stephanie Kimbro entitled Course Correction: Teaching Tomorrow’s Lawyers Legal Tech Skills for the summer edition of the ILTA Peer to Peer Magazine. I developed the syllabus for and taught the first course on legal informatics at Stanford Law School. Several of my students from that course have gone on to find innovative paths in the legal industry, […]
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Using A Document Automation System–Authorized Practice Of Law?
(This was originally posted as a guest post on the MyCase blog on August 28, 2013) There has been a lot of talk over the last few years regarding the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) and use of technology – in particular, document automation systems. A common topic is whether or not using document automation […]
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