Take a look at this list of legal startups on Angel List – 414 and counting. I am happy to count many of these companies as #ReInventLaw Speakers / Attendees. While many of these companies may not succeed in the long run – these companies tend to cluster around certain ideas. It is my belief that many of those ideas will ultimately prevail. For more thoughts check out Bob Ambrogi’s post “A Time of Unprecedented Innovation in Legal Technology.” I agree with most of his thoughts on the matter.
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Over 800 Folks in Attendance at Cooper Union for ReInventLaw NYC 2014 – Thanks So Much For Coming!
It is a wrap for #ReInventLaw NYC 2014. We finished up with just over 800 folks in attendance for this free, public facing event at the Cooper Union (~725 at the peak of the day according to the security guards who were keeping the count). As the conference co-organizer, I want to thank all of our speakers for speaking, all of our sponsors for sponsoring and all of our attendees for attending!
There are many interesting changes underway within the legal industry. Many of the participants (both speakers and attendees) are part of the innovator / early adopter segment. It was great to connect with everyone. I hope to continue the conversation. More importantly, I look forward to working together to help build the future …
Patrick Ellis – MSU Law 3L (law + entrepreneurship + tech + process + creativity)
As discussed in a prior post, I will be featuring some of my students who are participating in my law, technology and/or entrepreneurship courses here at MSU Law (access the course list here) — Many of my students are doing interesting and exciting things and so I thought I would take some time to highlight them! For more information about these students or my courses – please feel free to contact me – daniel.martin.katz@gmail.com
Pat Ellis is a 3L at Michigan State University College of Law. He notes “I am especially interested in litigation; eDiscovery, information governance, and compliance; legal informatics and data analytics; legal process engineering and project management; startups and social entrepreneurship.” His course work includes all of these topics.
Pat is an active blogger – check out his blog including his recent posts including Paired Programming . . . for Agile Lawyers?, Three Benefits of Open Source Legal Docs, Open Source TAR . . . FOR FREE!
Pat did a recent interview with MOOTUS Blog as their featured Law Student of the Month. You can check out that interview here.
#ReInventLaw NYC – February 7, 2014 The Great Hall @ Cooper Union Sign Up For Your Free Ticket Today!
You are invited to join us for ReInventLaw NYC — to be held in New York City on February 7, 2014 at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
This high energy completely *free* event that is open to anyone interested in the future of the law including but not limited to law students, practicing lawyers, technologists, venture capitalists, data scientists, legal hackers, government officials, law professors, legal operations professionals, legal entrepreneurs, etc.
The full list of the 40+ Speakers is now live!
In the meantime, please sign up for a free ticket today by clicking here. When they are gone, they are gone (and they are almost gone)!
The event follows immediately on the heels of LegalTech NYC (which is a 12,000+ person trade show attended by the leading technologists in the legal industry). This will make it easy for LegalTechNYC goers to attend.
We are very excited to be able to secure this location for this event – the Cooper Union Great Hall in Manhattan. The Great Hall in among the most important venues in American History as it is the site of Abraham Lincoln original abolitionist speech delivered in this very venue – February 27, 1860.
By way of background, we have run previous sold out events in Silicon Valley, London and Dubai. For recent examples please see here:
http://reinventlawsiliconvalley.com/
http://reinventlawlondon.com/
Check out some of the videos from prior events here:
http://reinventlawchannel.com/
You can learn more about the work of the #ReInventLaw lab here:
http://reinventlaw.com/
Sign up for your free ticket today and we will look forward to seeing you Friday February 7, 2014 @9:00am.
Data Mining Exposes Problems for Massive Open Online Courses (via ArXiv / MIT TechReview)
Obviously there are serious issues with MOOCs but it would be a mistake to believe that version first is the same as version last … but the problems are real … interesting to see how folks innovate to solve these existing shortcomings …
Andy Ninh – Augmented Reality and On-Demand Legal Services (via ReInventLawChannel.com )
In the months to come, I will be featuring some of my students who are participating in my law, technology and/or entrepreneurship courses here at MSU Law (access the course list here) — Many of my students are doing interesting and exciting things and so I thought I would take some time to highlight them! For more information about these students or my courses – please feel free to contact me daniel.martin.katz@gmail.com
Andy Ninh is a 3L at Michigan State University College of Law. “He’s a geek, future attorney & entrepreneur, Google Glass explorer, nutrition and exercise junkie, martial artist, and tech enthusiast.”
Check Out His Personal Website Here (See Below).
Recalculate the Future of Law (via Insight Labs)
Tried to offer some honest and unvarnished statements about the current state of affairs. Click here to see the full interview.
Supercharging Patent Lawyers With AI (via IEEE Spectrum)
In my recent article, Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry 62 Emory Law Journal 909 (2013), I discuss how companies like Lex Machina are creating a more efficient and data driven legal industry. Next semester at MSU Law, Michael Bommarito and I will co-teach a course called “Legal Analytics.” This is a follow on the introductory course that I teach called “Quantitative Methods for Lawyers.” In Legal Analytics, students will be exposed to cutting edge predictive analytics approaches such as machine learning, natural language processing, network science, etc. Students will apply their skills on real datasets that are available from published papers or from some our industry partners. Thus, the course will mix theory with practical applications useful for the practice of law as we move forward into the 21st Century.
R Boot Camp – Part 1 in Quantitative Methods for Lawyers (Professor Daniel Martin Katz)
Today we start our R Boot Camp in Quantitative Methods for Lawyers.
It should be fun! 🙂
In total, there will be three set of slides in this multi-day bootcamp designed to introduce students to the logic of R, the basic roadblocks such as loading data and cleaning data, loading various R packages, running basic commands, shifting out of default command settings, plotting data, conducting statistical tests, etc. Later in the course we will use R for regression analysis, etc.
For anyone who might be interested, the Full Course Page including all slidedecks is located here. For help on the installation of R and the RStudio IDE please check out my Loading R/RStudio Bonus Module.
Who’s Eating Big Law’s Lunch – ABA Journal Cover Story October 2013
Very happy to see 2013 MSU Law Grad – Joe Kelly included as part of the story. Also, good to see a number of friends (Ray, Lois, Kevin, Joanna, Oliver, etc.) featured in the article. Entrepreneurship is about doing the obvious before it is obvious to others. Everybody in the story is doing just this!