Starting Out: Resources for New Lawyers

Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this book describes how they will change the practice of law, specifically by connecting computational models of legal reasoning directly with legal text, generating arguments for and against particular outcomes, predicting outcomes and explaining these predictions with reasons that legal professionals will be able to evaluate for themselves.

Scrutinizing the real implications posed by legal tech, this book advocates for an unbiased, cautious approach for the engagement of technology in legal practice. It also carefully addresses the core question of how to balance fears of industry takeover by technology with the potential for using legal tech to expand services and create value for clients.

Seven real-life case studies and numerous examples have students designing and implementing a process for resolving and preventing disputes where traditional processes have failed.

This book is meant to appeal both to practitioners who are seeking basic knowledge of what predictive coding and other advanced search methods are all about, as well as to those members of the legal community who are "inside the bubble" of e-discovery already and wish to gain further insight into the latest thinking on advanced search techniques from leading lawyers, judges, and information scientists. The book may also be read by lawyers who do not consider themselves litigators or e-discovery practitioners, but who wish to apply a knowledge of smart analytics in other legal contexts.

Rebooting Justice presents a novel response to longstanding problems. The answer is to use technology and procedural innovation to simplify and change the process itself. In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around.

Plenty of people talk about technology changing the practice of law but what does it all mean for a lawyer's everyday skills? The answers lie in Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide for the Modern Lawyer. This book is the first student-centered coursebook of its kind. It is a comprehensive instructional source combining background explanation of changes to the legal industry with practical guidance on topics such as electronically stored information, document proficiency, advanced research analytics, cybersecurity, automation, client-centered law practice management technology, and remote lawyering.