#COLPM2014 Mills: We can code law, but why should we? Vast unmet demand for legal services that must be served.
#COLPM2014 Michael Mills of @NeotaLogic: Expert systems are everywhere, including doing your taxes.
#COLPM2014 Seidman: Law schools must fill the "practice gap" for new grads. Motto of Accelerator: "The legal problems of everyday life."
#COLPM2014 @Suffolk_Law Ass. Dean Ilene Seidman describes 3-year "Accelerator to Law" program to help grads represent middle-class clients.
#COLPM2014 @Suffolk_Law is hitting it out of the park -- grads and profs dazzling College members with innovative legal courses & products.
#COLPM2014 The link to the @SuffolkLaw/@DCaseyFlaherty Legal Tech Audit is here: http://www.legaltechaudit.com/
#COLPM2014 @Suffolk_Law student/paralegal Courtney Burgess describes benefits of @marclauritsen's Lawyering in Age of Smart Machines course.
#COLPM2014 @Andrew_Perlman @Suffolk_Law partnered with @DCaseyFlaherty to widely circulate his Legal Tech Audit; school version free to use.
#COLPM2014 @Andrew_Perlman @Suffolk_Law created Institute for Law Practice Technology & Innovation (I'm co-chair of advisory board, BTW).
#COLPM2014 @Andrew_Perlman Legal ed still trains lawyers for bespoke legal work; that's not how most legal services are delivered today.
#COLPM2014 @Andrew_Perlman of @Suffolk_Law: Little has changed in legal ed since the Langdell method: we still train them to look backward.
#COLPM2014 @SuffolkLawDean Camille Nelson: We can deal with both the practice gap and the justice gap at the same time.
#COLPM2014 Staudt: LawHelpInteractive from Legal Services Corp., A2J Author from @ChicagoKentLaw @caliorg: Tools to create access. All free.
#COLPM2014 Keynote & all 3 TED speakers have talked solely about client/buyer/user/untapped perspectives: powerful, valuable, and overdue.
#COLPM2014 Ron Staudt, Chicago-Kent Law prof, outgoing prez @COLPM: 80% of poor's civil legal needs, 70-75% of middle-class needs, go unmet.
#COLPM2014 Geiger: "If we can scale what lawyers do..use tech more effectively...huge market that could be serviced if the model was better"
#COLPM2014 Geiger: Contracts are essentially just data and rules: Why aren't they actionable?
#COLPM2014 Geiger: MPESA and MatterNet, "leapfrog" technologies that deliver solutions through modern (not legacy) infrastructures.
#COLPM2014 Geiger: Consumer first, org. second: Faster, Cheaper, Easier, Prettier. Last one not a joke: UI (user interface) very important.
#COLPM2014 Geiger: Selling anything new or habit-changing to law firms is too long. Consumers don't make buying deciisons like companies do.
#COLPM2014 Abe Geiger, CEO of @ShakeLaw: Focused on #TinyLaw, transactions below the financial threshold for lawyer attention.
#COLPM2014 Carr: Focus on customer's needs; have courage to change; embrace prevention of legal issues. Counsellors, not lawyers!
#COLPM2014: Carr: Forget OldLaw and even NewLaw. Consider Emerging Law. But focus on NextLaw: Prevention of need for high-cost legal solving
#COLPM2014 Carr: Process defines your path. Project management: Who does What When? The Counselling Trinity: Plan, Perform, Prevent.
#COLPM2014 Carr: "4 Boxes" of lawyer work (in declining order of value): Counsel, Advocacy, Process, Knowledge. Not all boxes need lawyers.
#COLPM2014 Carr: If you buy time, that's just what you'll get. (Cf. @NeotaLogic point: Innovation kills hours. Key to lawyer resistance.)
#COLPM2014 Jeff Carr, ex-GC FMC Tech @onedegreelaw: In-house counsel focused on tech, lower-cost talent, process improvement, in that order.
#COLPM2014 Sager: Rigor, discipline, value to business are key to make this all happen. But timing for change couldn't be better.
#COLPM2014 Sager: Can't emphasize collaborative intelligence enough in choosing the right people for this effort.
#COLPM2014 Process improvement will eventually change everything about legal service delivery. I don't think anything else will come close.