Open Law Lab
Assisted Decision Making from Josh Blackman Here is the presentation from today’s Stanford Law lunch, with law professor Josh Blackman discussing his startup to rival Pacer in distributing…
what to do for a tax break? institute mandatory uniforms at law firms. deductions, deductions, deductions!
The M-Jirga from Colin Rule A presentation by Colin Rule, of Online Dispute Resolution fame, on a concept design for a mobile traditional justice platform. The m-Jirga…
For my excellent class at Stanford Law School on the future of legal technology, I am proposing to build a WebMD for law. My central question is ‘how…
A blog post by solo practitioner Carolyn Elefant detailed her issues with the current legal start ups that supposedly increase ‘access to justice’, but in her estimation are…
Sri Lankan tech researcher & TED fellow Sanjana Hattotuwa has laid out some of the basic capabilities that mobile phones in the field can be used in dispute…
A major problem in governance is the spread of misinformation and rumors. Sometimes these result from concerted campaigns by political actors, to manipulate politicians with rumors meant to…
The Internet Bar Organization has fielded a proposed design, the Internet Silk Road Initiative, that would use online and mobile tech to provide access to justice & dispute…
I just made a second law school quiz app — this time on the specific topic of Civil Procedure. It’s Law School Dojo: Civ Pro, now out on…
I have recently begun to play around with coding apps, and for my first real venture, I decided to code up a quiz app with all the things…
Halfway through this lecture from an entrepreneur + a lawyer from Wilson Sonsini, there is a very helpful walkthrough of term sheets + how to negotiate with venture…
Thinking about starting a company? Think about the legal + market issues, here is a a great resource site from Steve Blank at Stanford, providing a step-by-step…
Entrepreneurs need to know how to negotiate with venture capitalists, as they get their rounds of funding. Here is a Term Sheet Battle, sponsored by a law firm…
There is a team putting together a new platform in which people who work on human trafficking can link up, join forces, and share resources. Interested? Go look…
There are a host of apps (some free, some paid) for studying law. Most are oriented towards preparing for law bar exams, but they can be useful more…
Sarkissian Mason, a digital innovation agency, worked with the non-profit Pathways to Housing, to make a Virtual Homeless interactive experience for people walking down the street in New…
The New York State Bar Association has released a mobile app for lawyers, judges, and other legal practitioners — for quicker advice on whether their action is ‘Ethical…
How can you keep users aware of the privacy choices of their browsing? There’s a new crop of visual tools that let the Internet-user see who is…
As designers increasingly take on social problems abroad as thier own wicked problems to design solutions for, the same questions that have been troubling development specialists for the…
Many cities are using “311 Apps” on mobile devices or on Facebook to let citizens report basic city problems — potholes, graffiti, etc — to their local representatives.…
Making Policy Public brings designers, advocates and policy makers together to produce clear visions of how government, law, and policy work. This PDF provides immigrants with clear…
