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Welcome to Legal Tech Link, a quarterly rundown of the players, events and ideas shaping the legal technology ecosystem.
Legal Tech Link will bring home to legal practitioners the innovation and dynamism that’s driving the legal tech world. We separate the hype from the substance, and we navigate the many frontiers of legal innovation today: legal tech startups; the best legal innovation events; the leading thinkers from practice, tech companies and academic research centers; incubators and regional legal tech communities; and the best of legal tech literature.
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Illinois Tech – Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Daniel Katz
Daniel Martin Katz: The law lab and the future of legal ed
In our inaugural Legal Tech Link interview, we speak with Daniel Martin Katz, Associate Professor of Law at Illinois Tech – Chicago-Kent College of Law and director of Law Lab @ Illinois Tech, who shares his plans for a polytechnic style of legal education.
In the sciences, working in a research lab, and learning to think about problems in the way a scientist does, is a very formative experience for many people. And I thought that would be a great model for us, to have those types of experiences for law students to help them apply scientific tools to various questions, and also to think systematically about solving problems. …
So, legal tech is one part of it, but we’re also interested in the application of process engineering like Lean and Six Sigma. We’re also interested in the application of metrics and scientific tools to think about law as a science. …And then we have specific projects that we want to work on under the umbrella of the lab.
Also in this Issue
Legal tech company news: Neota Logic, ROSS Intelligence, Kira System & more
New legal tech companies: Loom Analytics, Paper, LitFunders, LegalDesk.com & more
Readings: The intangible law firm, Remaking the law firm ecosystem & more
Event report: Janders Dean & the Chicago-Kent College of Law Legal Horizons Conference
Academia: Law schools that major in technology and innovation
Legal tech events calendar: EvolveLaw (various locations), VQ Knowledge and Strategy Forum 2016 (Stockholm), Legal Geek Conference (London)
U.K. and European focus: Legal Geek: Building a LawTech startup community; Legal tech and the responses of law firms and corporate legal departments
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