Crowdfunding Can Be A Great Way to Finance Your Case - Or Destroy It, by Jason Krouse
"A litigation crowdfunding website or application lets anyone in need of
backing for a legal matter raise money from anywhere in the world. There are two emerging crowdfunding models at opposite ends of the
funding spectrum. On one end there are nonprofit efforts ... which raises money from donors, not investors ... for small-scale criminal defense cases or
nonprofit organizations trying to launch legal or political campaigns. At the other end of the spectrum, ... accredited investors bet on the outcome of corporate lawsuits, which is an estimated $1 billion market."
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
'Hackathon' Movement
The hackathon is a workshop, meet-up or conference bringing experts from
different disciplines together with technologists looking for
innovative ways to tackle long-standing problems.
The idea is to create an app, service, policy proposal or other work product that can address a real-world problem.
"To most lawyers, 'hackathon' probably sounds like an invitation to commit felonies and sets them fleeing," says Dazza Greenwood, a lawyer and research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. "But to people who get it, a legal hackathon is about lawyers, engineers and policymakers interested in solving problems at the intersection of the law and technology."
By Jason Krause, ABA Journal.
The idea is to create an app, service, policy proposal or other work product that can address a real-world problem.
"To most lawyers, 'hackathon' probably sounds like an invitation to commit felonies and sets them fleeing," says Dazza Greenwood, a lawyer and research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. "But to people who get it, a legal hackathon is about lawyers, engineers and policymakers interested in solving problems at the intersection of the law and technology."
By Jason Krause, ABA Journal.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Google Scholar
The next wave in legal research may already be here: Google Scholar went
beta in 2004, making hundreds of millions of cases, research articles
and filings easily searchable and free.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Panel Proposes Pilot Project to Test Legal Technician Program
A State Bar task force last month proposed the development of a pilot program for limited licensing of legal technicians as part of a series of recommendations aimed at closing the so-called “justice gap.”
"Millions of low- and middle-income Californians fall into the gap of needing civil legal assistance but not being able to afford to hire a lawyer. In some cases, they may even qualify for legal aid, but are turned away by cash-strapped nonprofit providers, according to the newly released Civil Justice Strategies Task Force report."
"Millions of low- and middle-income Californians fall into the gap of needing civil legal assistance but not being able to afford to hire a lawyer. In some cases, they may even qualify for legal aid, but are turned away by cash-strapped nonprofit providers, according to the newly released Civil Justice Strategies Task Force report."
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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