Podcasts about a2j

In our second episode of Here's The Thing, Scott Leffler talks with veteran WNY broadcaster and all-around good guy, Brad Riter about everything but sports. Then Andrew McGrath joins to talk about the NFL's schedule release and Drew suggests a weekly topical question; This week, Drew asked Scott whether he'd prefer to a a superstar athlete with fame and accolades but no ring ... or a second stringer with a championship trophy. Then BD2 comes to discuss a little bit of everything including All WNY Radio's most jinxed show ever. WIth a new song by BD2 plus tracks from Karma Queen, 2.0, and A2J. 

This week, we sit down with Sam Flynn, COO and co-founder of Josef, to separate substance from hype in the rapidly evolving world of legal tech. Sam shares his passionate stance that “RAG is not dead,” defending Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a foundational and still deeply relevant method for deploying AI in the legal industry—despite the flashy allure of agentic AI. His nuanced take reminds listeners that success in this space depends not only on the sophistication of the technology, but on doing the “boring” foundational work: ensuring data integrity, context-aware chunking, and responsible workflows.Throughout the discussion, Sam champions the idea that great legal technology should not just enhance expert workflows but make legal information accessible to non-experts. With examples from Josef's clients like L'Oréal, Bumble, and Bupa, Sam illustrates how Josef's tools allow legal departments to offload routine work through reliable self-service systems—freeing up time for more strategic thinking while improving speed, compliance, and consistency across organizations. He makes the case that empowering end users with trustworthy tools isn't just good tech—it's a new model for scaling legal and compliance services.A key highlight is Josef's Roxanne project, developed in collaboration with Housing Court Answers and NYU. Roxanne is an AI-powered tool designed to help tenants in New York navigate the complexities of housing law. Sam outlines the safeguards that ensure Roxanne's answers are accurate and compliant, such as closed-domain data sources, human-in-the-loop validation, and smart escalation workflows. The conversation touches on the broader access to justice (A2J) implications of this technology—arguing that when designed carefully, AI can amplify the reach and impact of legal aid organizations by orders of magnitude.The episode doesn't shy away from the tensions legal professionals feel when automation enters their domain. Sam offers a powerful reframing: instead of seeing these tools as a threat, lawyers should view them as opportunities to offload low-value tasks and expand their influence. The goal, he says, is not to cut jobs—but to redefine the kind of work legal professionals do, making space for more proactive, strategic, and meaningful engagements within organizations and communities.As the conversation wraps, Sam shares his optimism about the future—tempered by a clear-eyed understanding of the human factors that will determine success. While the technology is ready, the question is whether legal professionals will step up and take the lead. His call to action is clear: focus less on the hype, and more on the systems, safety, and trust that make tech transformative. Whether you're a legal technologist, innovator, or cautious observer, this episode offers a grounded and inspiring look at what it takes to build legal tech that actually works.Listen on mobile platforms:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Special Thanks to ⁠Legal Technology Hub⁠ for their sponsoring this episode. Blue Sky: ⁠⁠@geeklawblog.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@marlgeb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.comMusic: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jerry David DeCicca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript

Welcome to today's episode of AI Lawyer Talking Tech! As the legal industry evolves, the intersection of AI and law continues to bring bold leadership, regulatory challenges, and groundbreaking innovation to the forefront. From Luminance's appointment of a tech-savvy Chair to California's forward-thinking legislation on AI in hiring, we explore how governance and innovation are shaping the future. Meanwhile, global developments in data protection, litigation trends, and the creative disruptions of legal tech startups highlight the expanding influence of technology on legal practices. Stay with us as we unpack the latest insights driving transformation in the legal profession. Oddr Welcomes Legal Tech Veteran Marc Cram as Sales Consultant21 Jan 2025Legal Technology News - Legal IT Professionals | Everything legal technologyCollaborating for impact: 5 essential tips for justice tech providers21 Jan 2025Thomson Reuters InstituteGenerative AI Risks: Legal and Compliance Insights - Part 120 Jan 2025GenAI-LexologyTop 10 Employer Takeaways as New Jersey Cracks Down on AI Discrimination21 Jan 2025Fisher & Phillips LLPGlobal WHS trends21 Jan 2025Norton Rose FulbrightUS Data Privacy Guide20 Jan 2025White & CaseData Privacy Update19 Jan 2025White & CaseLegalOn Expands AI Contract Review Platform with Feature to Create Custom Playbooks21 Jan 2025LawSitesLegal community braces for changes in DEI initiatives21 Jan 2025Virginia Lawyers WeeklyGlimpses of Hope for A2J – in BC and Abroad21 Jan 2025SlawAgiloft Buying GenAI Contract Review Company Screens21 Jan 2025Pulse 2.074% of hourly legal work can be automated, freeing lawyers to focus on what matters most21 Jan 2025Legal FuturesNew law firm on mission to revolutionise access to justice for consumer claims21 Jan 2025Hayes ConnorLexisNexis Legal Awards 2025 shortlist announced21 Jan 2025FamilyLaw.co.uk$500m-valued Suno hit with new copyright lawsuit from Germany's GEMA21 Jan 2025Music Business WorldwideEp. 34: Defying the Odds: How a Life-Altering Accident Led to Justice Advocacy20 Jan 2025Hurst Limontes LLCResponsible AI in Legal Practice: Opportunities and Challenges21 Jan 2025Grit DailyGame-changing AI startups to look out for in 202521 Jan 2025Startups.co.ukLaw Firms Ended 2024 With ‘Drastic' Drop in Lateral Hiring21 Jan 2025JDJournalBalancing Hybrid Work with Relationship Building: How Ballard Spahr's ‘Ballard Blueprint' is Shaping Associate Training20 Jan 2025JDJournalTrump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Stall TikTok Ban21 Jan 2025DNyuzSuit Against CFPB Warns of ‘Chilling' Effect on Digital Wallets and Payment Innovations21 Jan 2025PYMNTS.comExpanding Legal Workflow Efficiency: AI and Technology in Modern Legal Practice20 Jan 2025JDJournalHogan Lovells Team presents to elite group of general counsels at National Retail Federation's Annual Big Show in New York City20 Jan 2025JD SupraAI for All: Expanding Access to Legal Services with Free Legal AI and Templates20 Jan 2025TechBullionPotential Impacts of the New Administration on Financial Institutions20 Jan 2025JD SupraTLT welcomes AI and digital transformation expert as partner20 Jan 2025TLT SolicitorsFrom Workflow to Innovation: Bloomberg Law Answers and AI Assistant with Bobby Puglia20 Jan 20253 Geeks and a Law BlogAI-Driven Legal Tech Trends for 202520 Jan 2025JD Supra

Today we welcome Eric Voogt, the founder and CEO of PROOF, a legal tech company that connects law firms with independent process servers nationwide. Eric started as an engineer for an aircraft manufacturer, but left this profession to attend law school and pursue a career in law. In addition to his work at PROOF, he has been a partner at a Denver law firm for more than two decades. Eric is skilled in technology development, as well as construction law, trials, appeals, commercial litigation, and environmental law. Last year, PROOF was named “Best Practice of Law App” by Clio at the annual Clio Cloud Conference. Today, Eric tells us about his recommendation for young people planning to go to law school, why and how he created PROOF, the role of technology in addressing the A2J problem, and the legal technology developments that excite him.

In this episode, Linda Odermott delves into the evolving landscape of the legal profession, focusing on regulatory reforms aimed at mitigating the access to justice (A2J) crisis. Linda brings to light essential discussions surrounding the profession's impact on justice accessibility, noting that in 75% of cases, one side is self-represented. She references research from Nora Freeman Angstrom and James Stone on how historical events like the legal crackdown on early 20th-century auto clubs contributed to today's crisis. Key Takeaways: Regulatory sandboxes in states like Utah and Arizona are proving to be successful models for legal reform, enabling non-traditional actors to offer legal services and addressing the access to justice gap. The Licensed Paralegal Practitioner (LPP) program in Utah provides essential legal services in areas such as family law, landlord-tenant disputes, and debt collection, offering alternatives in underserved areas. Linda argues that opposition to these reforms often stems from fears of market disruption but highlights data supporting the reforms' efficacy and safety. Data from Utah's sandbox programs indicate rare incidences of consumer harm compared to traditional lawyer services, bolstering the argument for broader reform. View the Utah Licensed Paralegal Practitioner Program here Veiw the Certified Advocate Partners Program here View the Utah Office of Legal Services Innovation December 2023 report here View the Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence From Regulatory Change article here View the essay Death and Ethics: Suffocating or Saving Nonlawyer Practitioners with Lawyer Ethics here   Get more free paralegal resources:  https://paralegal-bootcamp.com/paralegal-resources 

In this episode, host Christine O'Doherty is joined by special guests Tina Parbhakar, Amy Schwab, and Jane Morley, K.C., to explore the Transform the Family Justice System Collaborative, an innovative initiative in British Columbia, launched in 2022. As key contributors to this groundbreaking user-centred initiative, the guests share their insights on efforts to redesign the family justice system. Together, they discuss strategies for enhancing child and youth participation, fostering cross-sector collaboration, using developmental and transformational evolution approaches and developing creative solutions for families. Their conversation offers a deep dive into the ongoing collective impact work to make family justice more accessible, inclusive, and responsive.   RELATED DOCUMENTATION National Justice Education Society website (that is being updated for re-launch in early 2025): https://familieschange.ca/ Visit transformfamilyjusticebc.ca. Any feedback is welcome, which can be sent to contact@accesstojusticebc.ca 2024 Annual Conference on “Families and the Law”: Webpage: https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/upcoming-programs/2024-annual-conference/ Program: https://ciaj-icaj.ca/wp-content/uploads/events/2022/05/brochure_2024-annual-conference_en.pdf Registration form: https://www.imakeanonlinedonation.org/ciaj-icaj/P333/

After Charlie introduces Mike and congratulates him on the recent Time of London article about Contend, Charlie and Mike discuss: Just what it is that Contend (at https://contend.legal) does to provide safe, accessible, and affordable information for "regular people" when those people confront a legal issue (principally, providing both signposts to information resources (often secondary sources aimed at non-professionals) and connecting people to legal professionals and other organizations that can provide additional help) Why Contend at present operates only in England and Wales (primarily because (i) the UK's regulation of the legal services delivery system is less hidebound by outdated and overly broad "unauthorized practice of law" rules and (ii) the UK's legal innovation culture is so well developed) How Contend markets its product offerings (initially focussing on paid Google ads, now coming to rely more on organic Google search of access-to-justice content that Contend creates, and partnering with A2J nonprofits and other brand-building efforts) The significant business challenge Contend has so far faced (customer acquisition - and, in particular, conveying why Contend is a service provider that consumers can trust) and the most significant "win" that Contend is to date most proud of (having as significant and favorable an impact on people's lives as Contend has had) Link to Times of London article about Contend: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/we-use-ai-to-make-justice-more-accessible-to-ordinary-people-fk78crxtt

In this Amici podcast, we introduce you to the three chairs of the NYS Permanent Commission on Access to Justice -- Helaine M. Barnett, the Grand Dame of the Access to Justice movement, Supreme Court Justice Christina Ryba and Acting Supreme Court Justice Shahabuddeen A. Ally. Transcript: Transcript: https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2024-07/A2J.pdf

Discover the seven key changes to improve New Brunswick's justice system discussed at the 2023 Access to Justice Summit. The New Brunswick Access to Justice Summit, Digital Transformation: Putting People at the Heart of the Justice System, held in August 2023 at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) Faculty of Law, brought stakeholders from the province's justice community together to discuss changes required to the New Brunswick family law system and the role of digital technology in the justice system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Nathan Afilalo, Argyri Panezi and Daniel J. Escott reflect on the writing of their co-authored report “Access to Justice Summit: The New Brunswick Report - Digital Transformation: Putting People at the Heart of the System.” They share their thoughts on the process of writing this report and present the seven desired outcomes (“7 Changes”) that were identified at the Summit. The Summit launched an action-plan and longer-term research plan to be led by the UNB Law Legal Innovation Laboratory in collaboration with local stakeholders and community. The Legal Innovation Laboratory will undertake a series of empirical studies to help inform future reform initiatives and will plan and host subsequent Summits inviting members of the public to participate in the design of justice reforms. 2024 Summit: Our team is currently organizing the 2024 Access to Justice Summit, which will take place on August 26 and 27 at the UNB Faculty of Law. Working themes are bilingual case-management and electronic filing. https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/law/research/innovationlab.html This report has been written collaboratively by CIAJ and the University of New Brunswick Legal Innovation Laboratory.

In this episode, uOttawa Associate Professor Vanessa MacDonnell welcomes The Honourable Sheilah L. Martin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Public Law Conference, which will be held from July 3rd to July 5, 2024, in Ottawa. This year's conference theme, “Public Law: Rights, Duties, and Power,” will initiate a conversation that spans across different countries, various perspectives, and brings together the legal community from around the globe.

Overarching themes: lawyers can benefit from multi-disciplinary approaches in various ways, clients seriously benefit from holistic approaches, and that combining these two approaches is really making headway on improving access to justice for vulnerable communities.Hosted  by Julia Tétrault-Provencher and featuring:Emily Murray Luke's Place, legal office with social and health support workers on site, specialised on the needs of survivors of intimate partner violence. People centered approach.Amy Slotek on her work as an embedded lawyer at a downtown Toronto mental health agency working with the homeless. Picking people up where they are.Michele Leering on Community Lawyers, Outreach, A2J in legal education and reflective practice. Ida Bianchi on how lack of access to all types of services, not only legal, often causes and then perpetuates people's involvement with criminal and family justice systems.Ab Currie on the uneven but steady march of progress on improving access to justice, the interplay between legal and non-legal problems, how these tend to cluster and feed off of one another, and that the legal profession is finally coming to realise more fully that you simply can't solve one without solving the other.Lisa Moore on Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Multi-Disciplinary Models for Legal Problem Resolution (2024). Lisa was the lead researcher and author and is also the director of the CFCJ.Home - Luke's Place (lukesplace.ca)Embedded Lawyer Program: 2022-23 annual report (legalaid.on.ca)Home - CALC (communitylegalcentre.ca)       Michele Leering | Queen's Law (queensu.ca)JUST13_Bio_Currie.pdf (cba.org)         Crossing boundaries: Exploring multi-disciplinary models for legal problem resolution (cfcj-fcjc.org)

This week, we're joined by Maya Markovich, Justice Tech Executive in Residence at Village Capital and co-founder and executive director at the Justice Technology Association. Maya started her career journey in change management consulting for tech, then became a practicing lawyer. Having a deep interest in the possibilities of technology in the legal profession, she went on to work in legal tech product management and product marketing. She later joined Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Ventures, founded by Dentons, as Chief Growth Officer. As justice tech executive in residence at Village Capital, Maya works with a broad investor coalition and startup founders to define, support, grow, and fund the justice tech sector. As executive director of the Justice Technology Association, she supports the change-makers who are developing meaningful tech solutions to the A2J crisis. In addition to her work at Village Capital and the Justice Technology Association, Maya is a startup advisor, as well as a consultant for Am Law 50 and midsize law firms, legal departments, alternative legal service providers, investors, and venture funds on tech and innovation. In today's discussion, Maya describes her passion for legal industry innovation and talks about switching from practice to legal tech product management and VC, the common challenges of tech startups, the Justice Technology Association mission, and her core change management principles for successful business transformation.

We've heard the stats and see every day the increasing and critical need to improve access to justice. There is much GenAI can do to help but it's not a perfect solution, or is it? In this podcast, Maya Markovich, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Justice Technology Association and CLI Advisory Board member, analysed and discussed the impact of GenAI in A2J with an amazing panel of community legal sector, pro bono, and low bono specialists: Amy Burton, Head of Pro Bono, Mills Oakley and Managing Lawyer, Everyday Justice Laura Elliott, Pro Bono Senior Associate, DLA Piper Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor, UNSW Law & Justice Noel Lim, Co-Founder and CEO, Anika Legal This podcast was on Day One of the CLI Legal Generative AI Summit 2023 on 24 October. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you'll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free Resource Hub here.

In this episode, host Daniel Escott is joined by Janet McIntyre, former Director of Justice Canada's Access to Justice Secretariat, for a discussion on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 16, the role of the Secretariat domestically and internationally, and the gradual shift to a people-centred approach to justice.

In this episode, host Daniel Escott is joined by Trevor C.W. Farrow, a renowned access to justice researcher and incoming Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, for a discussion on the pre-, during, and post-pandemic views of traditional access to justice. Dean Farrow provides a wealth of information on the problems that arise from a lack of access to justice, and discusses what meaningful access to justice looks like in the modern, post-pandemic period.

In this episode, host Daniel J. Escott explores the transformative landscape of access to justice in Canada in the company of his guests, esteemed legal experts Mark Benton, K.C. and Brea Lowenberger. Together, they discuss the impact of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters at both national and local levels and explore how collaborative efforts between stakeholders can help improve access to justice across Canada.

This week, as we celebrate Independence Day, we thought we'd revisit our conversation with Bridget Mary McCormack, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Since we recorded this episode, Chief Justice McCormack has retired and gone on to be president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, as well as strategic advisor to Penn Carey Law's Future of the Profession Initiative. In our discussion, Chief Justice McCormack talks about her efforts to ensure equal access to justice for all, the importance of public confidence in our court system, and collaborating with other branches of the Michigan state government on civil justice reform. This conversation highlights the incredible work of our country's public servants in solving today's A2J challenges. We hope you enjoy. In this episode, we have the distinct honor of being joined by Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack. Her passion for access to justice has been a constant throughout her career in public service. Immediately out of law school in New York, she joined the Legal Aid Society and the Office of the Appellate Defender. As a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, she launched a number of clinics devoted to domestic violence, pediatric health, mediation, low income taxpayers, human trafficking, and juvenile justice. The Michigan Innocence Clinic, which she founded—and in which students represent wrongfully convicted Michiganders—has exonerated more than 22 people so far, and has shined a light on the important justice issues underlying wrongful conviction. She joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013, and became chief justice in January 2019. Since joining the court, Chief Justice McCormack continues to teach at the law school and continues to speak out on important issues around the access to justice problem in our society. Listen in to today's discussion to hear her thoughts on the access to justice challenge and how we can bridge the gap, and why judges should be agents for justice system reform.

Legal coaching as a practical approach to Canada's Access to Justice Crisis.Marcus Sixta is the founder of Crossroads Law, a well-established firm specializing in family law with offices in Calgary and Vancouver and a 2023 excellence awardee for Canadian family law firm of the year, and more recently, he founded Coach My Case, which offers legal coaching services to self-represented litigants – we will be talking a lot about this in this podcast. A former social worker, Marcus is a certified collaborative divorce lawyer and an accredited family law mediator and family lawyer, and in 2021, he ranked as one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. Jo-Anne Stark is a former director of Advocacy at CBABC and the founder of Stark Solutions, primarily focused on helping SRLs navigate the legal system and providing training and certification for lawyers seeking to offer legal coaching services. You may well recognize Jo-Anne from our recent panel episode on limiting the misuse of NDAs by legal professionals as the lawyer who forwarded the extremely successful CBA resolution (94% in favor) on that issue. It was Jo-Anne's second successful resolution at the CBA, after last year's A2J Subcommittee resolution, which she also forwarded, calling for the CBA to look into innovative approaches to improving access to justice. Legal coaching for self-represented litigants is one such approach that is gaining traction as the number of self-represented litigants continues to increase all over the country, particularly in the area of family law. Jo-Anne recently publisheda Guidebook on Mastering the Art of Legal Coaching for legal professionals interested in learning how to set up and run legal coaching sessions to help self-represented people. Available online and through major retailers!  Canadian Bar Association - Access to Justice (cba.org)Reaching equal justice report (cba.org)Www.legalcoachesassociation.orgMastering the Art of Legal Coaching: The Legal Professional's Guide to Empowering Clients: Stark, Jo-Anne: 9780228829713: Books - Amazon.caRepresent Yourself in Family Law Court - Hire a Legal Coach (coachmycase.ca)Calgary Family Lawyers Divorce Separation Child Support (crossroadslaw.ca)Home - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario)  

Our guest today is a self-described “unapologetic access to justice advocate.” Natalie Anne Knowlton is the founder and principal consultant at Access to Justice Ventures, an organization committed to eliminating systemic barriers to legal resources by empowering entrepreneurs who are developing scalable solutions. As a law student, Natalie was deeply passionate about humanitarian and civil rights issues, so she ultimately decided to focus her career on the A2J space. Her list of activities is extensive. She became a research analyst at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), a think tank that also develops and implements innovative solutions to advance the legal system and serve those in need. There Natalie and her colleagues have conducted quantitative and qualitative empirical research in order to effectively address access to justice challenges. Today she serves as advisor on regulatory innovation at IAALS, after serving various roles in research and special projects. In 2022, she launched Access to Justice Ventures, and also became a transition consultant at Self-Represented Litigation Network, which aims to reform the legal system as the number of self-represented litigants rises in the US. Additionally, Natalie is a limited partner at the investment fund LongJump and the venture capital fund Overlooked Ventures, both of which help new founders develop their businesses. In our wide-ranging discussion, Natalie talks about how she channels "empirically informed outrage" to make a difference in law, her vision for regulatory reform, her work at Access to Justice Ventures, and her goals for changing the A2J space.

In this episode of the Every Lawyer we discuss restricting the use of NDAs in Canada's legal system.  Joining Julia for this timely discussion are:Jo-Anne Stark is a lawyer and Certified Legal Coach and operates Stark Solutions Legal Coaching and Consulting which offers virtual help to self-represented litigants and training to lawyers who want to offer legal coaching to their own clients; she is the volunteer President of Legal Coaches Association, a non-profit she founded in 2019 to increase access to justice, a role which she has kindly agreed to talk about with us in another upcoming A2J episode of the Every Lawyer; she is also a former Director of Advocacy at CBABC. Julie MacFarlane is a Distinguished University Professor (Emerita) at the University of Windsor. Julie has also held numerous visiting appointments at universities all over the world. Her books include The New Lawyer : How Clients are Transforming the Practice of Law 2nd edition, UBC Press 2017; Islamic Divorce in North America : Choosing a Shari'a Path in a Secular Society (OUP 2012).; and Going Public: a Survivor's Journey from Grief to Action Between the Lines Press, 2020). Julie has received many awards for her work, including the International Academy of Mediators Award of Excellence (2005), the David Mundell Medal for Legal Writing (2016), and one of Canada's 25 Most Influential Lawyers (2017). In 2020 she was named to the Order of Canada. She is co-founder with Zelda Perkins of Can't Buy My Silence, which campaigns for a change in the law on the misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements. Julie is also an authority on self-represented litigants and hosts a podcast on this topic which we highly recommend, Jumping Off the Ivory Tower. Jumping Off the Ivory Tower with Prof Julie Mac – NSRLP (representingyourselfcanada.com)Ronald A. Pink, K.C. practices in the fields of governance for organizations both public and private, pensions and benefits law, collective bargaining for public and private clients, municipal law, and labour and employment law. An advocate for labour relations, employment standards, and pensions and benefits, Ron has a long history with the Canadian Bar Association. He has served as President of the Nova Scotia Branch, Chair of the National Continuing Legal Education Committee, the first Chair of the International Development Committee and as acting Director of the Canadian Bar Insurance Association.Jennifer Khor is Supervising Lawyer and Project Manager for the Community Legal Assistance Society's SHARP Workplaces Legal Clinic. Jennifer provides legal advice and delivers education and training on workplace sexual harassment. She is also a member of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada's working group on NDA's.

We're joined today by John Grant, a legal operations strategist who works with law firms and legal teams to improve their capacity and productivity. A fourth-generation lawyer, John was in the technology industry for nearly a decade before he entered the legal profession. As an attorney, he started in in-house counsel and legal operations roles before founding Agile Professionals LLC in 2014. As a consultant, he helps legal professionals develop legal services that are profitable, scalable, and sustainable for themselves as well as the communities they serve. Additionally, John is board president of The Commons Law Center, a nonprofit law firm providing affordable legal services to those in Oregon who make up to 400% of the federal poverty level. Both Agile Professionals and The Commons Law Center incorporate Kanban, a methodology that aims to improve efficiency and achieve excellent client value in production processes by visualizing workflows. Today, John talks about what he learned from working in tech, the need for human connection in the A2J space, applying Kanban principles to legal organizations, and how he helps attorneys with overwhelming workloads.

Im sechsten Interview des Jahres 2023 sprach Johnny Sox mit Sinna über seinen Werdegang von A2J über Bauernrap und Butterjokes. Ebenso waren Focus Faith, das Tagteam MARCI SINNA, sowie der eigene musikalische Weg ein Thema.

As we've discussed many times on the podcast, the access to justice gap is a particularly complex challenge to address, due to its links to systemic issues such as poverty and limited availability to legal resources and technology. Today's guest, however, is helping people overcome these broader obstacles to legal services. Amanda Brown is the founder and executive director of Lagniappe Law Lab. The organization's mission is to facilitate access to justice at scale for Louisiana's underprivileged populations through the use of technology, human-centered design, and operations principles. Upon graduating law school, Amanda was a disaster recovery attorney, using technology to assist victims of disasters with accessing public benefits and title clearing. She then worked as a Microsoft NextGen Fellow for the American Bar Association's Center for Innovation, helping support the design and development of the Legal Services Corporation's legal navigator program, which connects those in need with legal resources available to them. She went on to serve as a legal technology consultant for the Louisiana Bar Foundation on its statewide triage portal. Drawing on these experiences in legal tech and the A2J space, Amanda founded Lagniappe Law Lab in 2019. She is also co-chair of Louisiana's Access to Justice Commission's technology subcommittee, and she is a member of the Legal Services Corporation's Emerging Leaders Council. Today, Amanda tells us about Lagniappe Law Lab—and how the team is incorporating human-centered design in its work, the unique challenges that the Lab's clients face in Louisiana, and how she entered the A2J path.

Looking back over the past two years of guests, we see a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives: different generations, different paths, and different areas of focus—legal ops, legal tech, law education, working in the A2J space, and attorney well-being, among others. We've covered a lot of ground. Obviously, we cannot recap everything we have discussed, but as we think about change in the profession, certain themes seem to emerge from the conversations. For these purposes though, let's focus on the corporate legal landscape. The thesis of today's episode is simple: That landscape has become more complex over the past few years—complexity only fueled by the pandemic. We tend to extol the virtues of simplicity, and rightly so, but complexity has its own virtue, opening both organizational and individual opportunities. Managing complexity is its own challenge, but in speaking with our pathfinders, we find certain markers of success.

According to a Justice Canada Survey in 2021, only 20% of Canadians are confident that the criminal justice system is fair to all people. What can we do to improve this situation? In this excerpt from CIAJ's 2022 Conference on dignity, CIAJ Lawyer Nathan Afilalo welcomes Rheanne Scott (Director, Justice and Community Safety, PwC Canada) for a special interactive session on what citizens want and need in a modern justice system.

Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:22 - Twitter & Where to go to now 08:24 - The Legal Tech Fund Summit (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 15:21 - ChatGPT Is Impressive, But Can (and Should) It Be Used in Legal? (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 27:15 - LawPay + MyCase Small Firm Survey (Selected by Niki Black) 39:25 - FTX founder faces criminal and civil charges for alleged $1.8B fraud at FTX Trading (Selected by Victor Li) 49:50 - Free PACER saves money because of course it does (Selected by Joe Patrice) 55:00 - Alaska's new and practical approach to A2J problem (Selected by Stephen Embry)

Cat Moon and Lagniappe Law Lab Executive Director Amanda Brown discuss a legal access points research project headed up by Amanda which illustrates how collaboration and modern data methods can support important strategic A2J goals.

Cat Moon and Lagniappe Law Lab Executive Director Amanda Brown discuss a legal access points research project headed up by Amanda which illustrates how collaboration and modern data methods can support important strategic A2J goals.

For many people around the world Access to Justice means Access to Canada. There is an expectation throughout the international community that Canada welcomes refugees and immigrants. Economic expediency has often led to special fast-track immigration programs with varying degrees of successful application and execution, and the same has occurred in response, again in varying degrees, to various humanitarian crises around the world.The Every Lawyer takes a deep dive into Immigration Law in Canada and sheds light on some serious Access to Justice issues. Some solutions included.With Arghavan Gerami and Kyle Hyndman from the CBA Immigration Law Section in cooperation with the CBA Access to Justice Subcommittee.Hosted by Julia Tétrault-Provencher.

What is a trust? If you have a will and kids who are under 18, chances are you have created a trust. What's the difference between a will, a trust, and an estate plan? Tune into this episode of A2J when we speak with Damian McGrath, Senior Trust Advisor at Raymond James Ltd., who answers these questions and more. Want to impress your family beyond making sure that your estate is easy to administer? Stay tuned to the end to learn some Latin to drop into conversation at the next family reunion!

We've had a number of guests on the show focused on the A2J gap, as well as issues of social justice, but today's guest, Jazz Hampton, combines both. Jazz is CEO and general counsel at TurnSignl, a Minnesota-based tech company that he co-founded in the wake of the deaths of Philando Castile and George Floyd. TurnSignl is a mobile app where the user, if stopped for a traffic violation or involved in an accident, can push a button and be connected automatically to an attorney to receive real-time, on-demand legal guidance. The goal of the app is to keep drivers safe and empowered while speaking with law enforcement. Before joining TurnSignl, Jazz was the director of diversity and inclusion and a practicing attorney at a national law firm. Among other roles, Jazz has won a number of accolades, most recently being named to Fastcase 50. Join us for a fascinating conversation about TurnSignl's growth plans, how this first-generation college student ended up in law school, and how a mentor made all the difference when Jazz was starting out.

Continuing professional development (CPD) content is an important research source for the practice of law. More than 800 documents focused on Saskatchewan law are now available on CanLii. Learn more about what's available on Canlii from our guests Sarah Sutherland, President and CEO of Canlii, and Alan Kilpatrick, Co-Director of Legal Resources at the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

Can technology help to close the access to justice (A2J) gap? That's the question the recently launched Justice Technology Association (JTA) is hoping to answer with guidance from its Advisory Board, and the shared experience of its Directors and co-founding organisations (Courtroom 5, EasyExpunctions, HelloDivorce and PeopleClerk), in collaboration with the A2J sector in the US and around the world. JTA is providing a focus and a place for stakeholders to come together and explore/deliver ways technology can do more and do good. And, along the way it also has the real possibility of positively reframing and solving a long-standing crisis.  In this podcast in the Future 50 Series of the CLI Legalpreneurs Spotlight, we chatted with Maya Markovich, the Executive Director of JTA and CLI Advisory Board member, based in the USA. Maya has a distinguished career in legal innovation and legal technology. In her role at JTA she brings that to the forefront and combines it with her passion for, and commitment to, improving A2J. We're delighted to welcome JTA to our Network as a friend of CLI. If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you'll find the video here. About the Future 50 Series In the Future 50 Series we'll be chatting with legalpreneurs who, through their ideas and actions, are challenging and transforming legal BAU all around the world. If you would like to recommend people for this Series, please contact us at: CLI@collaw.edu.au.

Today we welcome Jessica Stuart, Senior Product Manager at Pro Bono Net. In her role, she combines her passion for access to justice with her interests in technology, process improvement, and the user experience to increase the effectiveness and reach of law firm pro bono programs via the practice management software Pro Bono Manager. Jessica has also helped lead the platform development and product strategy for Pro Bono Net's Remote Legal Connect platform, which allows legal services providers, pro bono initiatives, courts, and community partners to rapidly build and manage a legal support program regardless of location. Jessica has been crucial in implementing the development strategy for Remote Legal Connect, which has been adopted by organizations such as Atlanta Legal Aid and Legal Aid of Nebraska. Listen in to today's conversation to hear more about the growth and evolution of Pro Bono Net, the power of virtual courtrooms to increase access to justice, how Jessica's love of music got her started on the A2J technology path, and how SeyfarthLean was an early inspiration.

Today we are joined by Ed Walters, a true pioneer in legal tech and driver of change in the legal industry. Ed is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, which has grown into one of the world's largest cloud-based legal software providers for the legal industry. It currently serves more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. Before founding Fastcase, Ed spent time in Big Law serving a number of large companies, and worked as a speechwriter in the White House. Ed is active in the A2J space, serving on the boards of Pro Bono Net, Public.Resource.org, Friends of Telecom Without Borders, and Salsa Labs. He also teaches Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technology, at Georgetown University Law Center. Ed is the creator of the Fastcase 50, a yearly list of 50 legal industry innovators who are drawn from all corners of the legal ecosphere. If you want to know who's who and who's coming up, it's a can't miss. Listen in to learn how this self-professed “beer and softball lawyer” became an entrepreneur and founder of a pioneering legal tech company, how launching during the dot-com bubble burst worked out for him, and what's next for Fastcase.

Welcome to Season 4! In this episode we discuss limited scope or unbundled legal services – what it is, why it's an affordable option and where to find a lawyer. Our guests are Tiffany Paulsen, Q.C., Bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and partner at Robertson Stromberg LLP; and Dayna Cornwall, Project Manager for the National Self-Represented Litigants Project. 

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Professor Benjamin Barton, Helen, and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Social Justice. He is a prior director of clinical programs at the College of Law. Professor Barton is the author of several books, including Fixing Law Schools; Rebooting Justice; Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession; and the Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Courts. During the podcast, he discusses the challenges in legal education and the reforms required in areas such as bar passage and debt load to "fix law schools," as well as the necessity of increasing access to justice for those traditionally deprived of that access. Professor Barton explains the premise of his next book, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice, which will be published in 2022, and the results of his research into the topic. Professor Barton also shares the successes he and his students are achieving utilizing A2J author software and basic coding to create tools and increase accessibility to legal solutions for the public. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your host - Patty Roberts ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow EdUp on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening!

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Professor Benjamin Barton, Helen, and Charles Lockett Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and a research fellow for the Center for the Study of Social Justice. He is a prior director of clinical programs at the College of Law. Professor Barton is the author of several books, including Fixing Law Schools; Rebooting Justice; Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession; and the Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Courts. During the podcast, he discusses the challenges in legal education and the reforms required in areas such as bar passage and debt load to "fix law schools," as well as the necessity of increasing access to justice for those traditionally deprived of that access. Professor Barton explains the premise of his next book, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice, which will be published in 2022, and the results of his research into the topic. Professor Barton also shares the successes he and his students are achieving utilizing A2J author software and basic coding to create tools and increase accessibility to legal solutions for the public. Thank you so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for your EdUp time! Connect with your host - Patty Roberts ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow EdUp on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening!

Life insurance. Critical Illness insurance. Disabilityinsurance. Which ones do you need? What'sthe difference between them? Who should you turn to for advice? Learn about the differenttypes of insuranceand more when we interview A2J special guest Kim MacDonald.

Do you need a business valuation? HINT: You might want to think about one if you're going through a separation or divorce, or doing estate planning.  What's a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV)?  What types of situations justify hiring a CBV? Listen to this episode of A2J where we interview Jonathan Lacasse of Grant Thornton LLP and find out the answers to those questions and much, much more! 

Are courts and tribunals really providing accessible service to people with disabilities? Michael Gottheil, Chief of the Commission and Tribunals of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, and Michael McNeely, Family Lawyer at Rogerson Law Group and first deaf-blind lawyer to graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, are seeking to answer this question in the third and last episode of our series on disability. Along the way, they discuss the reality in the justice system for people with disabilities, how courts and tribunals still struggle to provide accessible service to them, what challenges they are faced with on a day-to-day basis and how they can work and evolve in the sector of Law.

Episode 36 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast — Interview with Rich Lee, a co-founder and CEO of New Era ADR In this episode of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast (www.legaltechstartupfocus.com/podcast), your host, Charlie Uniman, interviews Rich Lee, a co-founder and CEO of New Era ADR.  On its website (www.neweraadr.com), New Era ADR says “Use smarter, more intuitive tools to get to resolution faster with some of the most experienced mediators and arbitrators in the industry. Do it all from home or anywhere in the world on our fully-digital platform. Get everything done in one place, without everyone being in one place. Don't waste your time, money, or energy on logistics or fighting, make it simple with New Era ADR.” Here are some topics that Rich and Charlie discuss: How Rich made his way from law school to co-founding New Era ADR. How Rich's experience as a GC and also as a business person at IP-related businesses (where he confronted first hand the expense and inefficiencies of litigating disputes in court) informs his vision for New Era ADR. What's New Era ADR's secret sauce when it comes to providing a software-based approach to alternative dispute resolution? (Hint: Among other things, shorter times-to-resolution, a “virtual first” approach, an emphasis on UX and the customer experience, and versatility as a platform that enables New Era ADR to handle not only disputes that involve commercially sophisticated parties, but also disputes that involve consumers and disputes that have A2J implications)? What business successes are Rich and his co-founders most proud of to date.    

In this episode, Laverne Jacobs, a professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and a person with physical disabilities, interviews Michael McNeely, who is the first deaf-blind lawyer to graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. They share thoughts on access to administrative justice for people with disabilities, challenges faced by members of the disability community becoming legal professionals and working as legal professionals, post-secondary education, and community activism.

In this episode, Professor Emeritus Philip Bryden meets with human rights advocate and accessibility consultant Michael McNeely to discuss barriers to access to administrative justice for people with disabilities. Together, they explore the obstacles that Mr. McNeely himself may encounter while practising law, and how the justice system could adapt to better meet the needs of his clients.

In the latest episode of Legal Skies, we speak to guests Alan Kilpatrick, Co-Director of Legal Resources at the Law Society of Saskatchewan, and Sarah Sutherland, Director of Programs and Projects at CanLII, about artificial intelligence (AI) and legal information.  They discuss the new AI classification system to help find resources easier and more efficient. Click here for more information. 

In this episode, Athanasios Hadjis (Senior Legal Counsel, Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada) welcomes Professor Patricia M. Barkaskas (Instructor & Academic Director, Indigenous Community Legal Clinic, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia) who presents some conclusions of CIAJ's 2021 National Roundtable on Administrative Law entitled "All the Voices We Don't Hear."

In this episode, Professor Philip Bryden, TransCanada Chair in Administrative and Regulatory Law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, is interviewing lawyer, human rights advocate, and accessibility consultant Michael McNeely, on his own experience with the justice system as a deaf-blind person.

We discuss the important role information professionals (i.e. law librarians) play in the justice system and how they are helping expand public access to legal information. Our guests are Alan Kilpatrick, Co-Director of Legal Resources at the Law Society of Saskatchewan, Shaunna Mireau, Past-President of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, and Kim Nayyer, Associate Dean of the Cornell Law School and President of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. 

NSRLP has begun working with several administrative tribunals to assist them in adapting their systems and skills to the volume of self-represented litigants they see each year. Today’s podcast features leaders at two federal Tribunals who are committed to improving meaningful access for self-reps, who make up 35-70% of litigants appearing at their tribunals. Suzanne Gilbert is Deputy Chairperson of the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Suzanne was previously a Chair at the Ontario Social Justice Tribunal, working with the Child and Family Services Review Board and Custody Review Board. Paul Aterman is the Chair of the Social Security Tribunal, which hears appeals from decisions on the Employment Insurance Act, the Canada Pension Plan, and the Old Age Security Act. Paul is a lawyer with extensive administrative justice experience in human rights, immigration and refugee matters and workers' compensation. He is also a member of the Measurement Working Group of Access to Justice BC, a network of justice sector organizations and individuals dedicated to improving access to justice. In other news: Guest Other News Correspondent Ali Tejani brings us the following stories: BC’s Access to Justice Week took place January 24th to 30th, with productive conversations, interesting guest lectures, and a statement by BC’s Attorney General, David Eby, who was a guest on this podcast in 2019; Nova Scotia has launched a Task Force to improve A2J after COVID-19 – they will explore more ways to use technology to improve access to justice, increase efficiencies, and create better outcomes; former SCC Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has written another interesting piece, “Access to Justice: Fragility and resilience: Lessons of 2020 and 2021 potential”; and finally, NSRLP is looking for looking for current or former SRLs across Canada for a public input project with the Social Security Tribunal of Canada – participants will be eligible to receive a gift card for their time. If interested, please email representingyourself@gmail.com. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/justice-as-a-service/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani, with assistance from Katie Pfaff; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.

With the pandemic still raging, litigation looks very different. Courtrooms across our country have had to adapt to the pandemic through new safety measures and the use of technology to keep up. But while these changes have allowed courts to operate, these changes haven't come without their headaches and, for some clients, very real challenges. Have the Courts done enough to ensure access? What does today's courtroom and court procedure look like? What about jury trials and selection? On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by attorney John S. Stiff, the founding partner of Stiff, Keith & Garcia, LLC, and Danielle Hirsch, Principal Court Management Consultant for the National Center for State Courts, to discuss COVID and the Courts. They talk about getting justice during a pandemic, take an inside look at what's going on in courtrooms today, explore the impact on all those involved in the process, and what is being done to ease and speed up the process. Special thanks to our sponsors, Blue J Legal and LEX Reception.

With the pandemic still raging, litigation looks very different. Courtrooms across our country have had to adapt to the pandemic through new safety measures and the use of technology to keep up. But while these changes have allowed courts to operate, these changes haven't come without their headaches and, for some clients, very real challenges. Have the Courts done enough to ensure access? What does today's courtroom and court procedure look like? What about jury trials and selection? On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host Craig Williams is joined by attorney John S. Stiff, the founding partner of Stiff, Keith & Garcia, LLC, and Danielle Hirsch, Principal Court Management Consultant for the National Center for State Courts, to discuss COVID and the Courts. They talk about getting justice during a pandemic, take an inside look at what's going on in courtrooms today, explore the impact on all those involved in the process, and what is being done to ease and speed up the process. Special thanks to our sponsors, Blue J Legal and LEX Reception.

Aired: December 10th, 2020 @ 10 am EST (45 mins) Host Caroline Mandell speaks with Civil Resolution Tribunal Vice-Chairs Kate Campbell and Shelley Lopez about rethinking reasons. In this episode, we explore how the CRT's commitment to A2J carry through to its written decisions, measure parties' satisfaction and more.  

Ryan Thurman, International Director of Antioch Network, shares his personal stories with A2J, relocating into a neighborhood that had real, tangible needs near the homeless shelter and the Arizona State Capital, to learn what it means to love God and love your neighbor. "We really believe that the early church and the Acts-like living in community can be done today." What our homeless friends "needed was a family where they could belong. Before they could completely understand the gospel, understand a loving God, they had to experience the love of God by a family." Ryan shares Sally's story, a homeless lady whose life was completely changed because Jesus entered in and invited her to life with him, a life that looked completely different than her first 40 years. "God is very clear that people experience love through people."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To better understand the access to justice issues in Saskatchewan, the College of Law and the Law Society of Saskatchewan are launching a Legal Needs Assessment. Our guests include Tim Brown, Q.C., Executive Director at the Law Society of Saskatchewan; Brea Lowenberger, Director of CREATE Justice and Access to Justice Coordinator at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law; and Heather Heavin, Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Law.

Cost is a significant factor for people trying to access legal services. This episode focuses on how unbundling legal services can be a cost effective and efficient alternative for people looking for legal help. Our guests include John-Paul Boyd, an accredited family law arbitrator based in Alberta, Sonali Sharma founder of Athena Law in British Columbia and Lisa Eisen, founder of Family Law: A La Carte in Ontario.

No matter what happens during this economic, political, health, and social crisis, Olga Mack reminds us that our skills are ours to keep. Olga is the CEO of Parley Pro, and brings her wisdom to the podcast on what lawyers and other legal professionals need to do to take care of themselves and thrive through the good times and the bad. Olga is the CEO of Parley Pro, a company that developed an innovative contract lifecycle management (CLM) tool, but she is so much more than that. A prolific speaker, a thought leader in the legal industry, a litigator, a transactional attorney, an in-house, as well as BigLaw attorney alumni. If you can name it, she's probably mastered it. We sit down with Olga to talk about a range of topics and share in her wisdom and experiences. Come along for the ride. Information Inspirations Artificial Lawyer and Legal Examiner both covered stories about a unique type of litigation funding company called LawAsYouGo. While they tout their ability to enhance Access to Justice (A2J) issues, there are a number of issues that we'd like to see addressed with how they actually create a positive influence on the A2J movement. Our friends at Legal Innovators produced a White Paper called "Restoring Lost Hope: How to finally achieve meaningful diversity and inclusion in the legal industry." Bryan Parker and Jon Greenblatt cover the issues of current and historic racial discrimination in the legal industry and suggestions on how to move forward. One major issue that we worry about is the fatigue that seems to be setting in on certain segments of the population. Now is not the time to rest, or think we've learned enough. Sharing this paper with the powers that be at your organization might be one way to help power through and look for meaningful ways to encourage diversity, inclusion, and equality. In a recent Lindsey, Africa, and Major survey, women partners are paid an average of $332,000 less than their male counterparts. Business Insider looks at this report and explains how one of the best options for female partners to increase their pay and their happiness, is to leave and go to somewhere else. Listen, Subscribe, Comment Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcast. Contact us anytime by tweeting us at @gebauerm or @glambert. Or, you can call The Geek in Review hotline at 713-487-7270 and leave us a message. You can email us at geekinreviewpodcast@gmail.com. As always, the great music you hear on the podcast is from Jerry David DeCicca.

This week’s episode features an interview about A2J issues with Mr. Justice Choudhury of the High Court of England and Wales, also President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Justice Choudhury is also Akhlaq (“Aki”), Julie’s lodger in North London in the late 1980s, when he was a law student at the University of London, and she was starting her career as a professor at another law school; they have remained good friends ever since. Julie and Aki discuss his journey from law student (and part-time milkman) to his current position – and just how unlikely all this seemed back then. In particular, Aki talks about how it was then impossible to imagine himself, born in Scotland and of Bengali descent, as a judge (and the numbers are not a lot better today, he points out). Aki also describes how, as a judge, he goes about ensuring that self-represented litigants (called pro se litigants in England) can be heard and treated fairly. In a COVID-aware postscript, Aki describes what it’s like to now hear cases by videoconference, and raises some concerns about some potential, and not yet fully understood, disadvantages for SRLs and others in that setting. In other news: NSRLP has added to our list of COVID-19 resources since our last podcast, including a list of free online legal educational content and a resource around what “urgent” means for cases currently being heard; we're also proud to announce that Julie will be a member of British Columbia’s new Cross Jurisdictional Technical Advisory Group, helping the Ministry of the Attorney General respond to the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system; and finally, Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella recently spoke about designing a whole new way to deliver justice to ordinary people, BC Attorney General David Eby has pondered how this crisis has been eye-opening for those who previously have had access to the justice system, and a major decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal recently reflected on the "role of the trial judge & counsel where one party is self-represented" – the case discusses the appalling treatment of an SRL during a "mocking & belittling cross-examination" while "the trial judge did nothing.” For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/that-was-then-and-this-is-now/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Sikandar Saleem; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

What would legal services look like if they were designed to maximize efficiency, rather than tradition and privilege? What would the courts look like? Very different in each case, as our guest Jordan Furlong, a legal markets analyst and commentator, explains. Such changes are being widely discussed now as we see the legal system – reliant on physical appearances, and designed to make (some) sense to experts, but none to the general public –shut down with COVID-19. Can we use this moment to really take hold of the need for change, and get serious about redesigning both legal services delivery and the courts? In Other News: NSRLP is continuously compiling and updating information from around the country on court closures and procedure changes, information on how to swear affidavits in various jurisdictions, and will also shortly be putting out A2J, social justice, and legal education content lists – stay tuned to our website for these and more COVID-related content; we encourage you to check out NSRLP West on social media; and finally, for an encouraging read, check out our blog post from last week by Tania Perlin, “Kindness and Compassion in Times of Fear and Uncertainty”. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/how-21st-century-needs-and-covid-19-are-changing-legal-services/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Sikandar Saleem; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

We talk about technology and access to justice, and then we go deeper into the A2J forest with Baobab Connect founder, Guy Stern. NEWS - https://lawsome.info/390SJbf GUEST - https://lawsome.info/BaobabConnect © 2020 Consultwebs

Law Society of Saskatchewan President Gerald Tegart and Vice-President Foluke Laosebikan discuss their role in shaping Law Society policy and ongoing access to justice initiatives.

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls issued its final report and calls for justice in 2019. Macrina Badger from the Ministry of Justice and Katrina Swan from the Regina Police Service discuss the impact of the inquiry and the work that still needs to be done. To read the final report, visit www.mmiwg-ffada.ca.

Beth Bilson, Q.C., former Dean at the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan discusses how everyone has a role to play in educating the public about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

There has been a lot of recent discussion about the complaints process at the Law Society of Ontario (and other law societies). How should law societies regulate and discipline lawyers, and how do they treat complaints from the public or self-reps, compared to complaints brought by other lawyers or the regulator itself? Are lawyers the best placed to discipline other lawyers? In today's podcast, LSO President Malcolm Mercer debates these and other issues with Anne Rempel, who has written a series of posts on the complaints process for our Access Revolution Blog. Next, Rob Harvie, the chair of the NSRLP Board, and Randi Druzin, a former SRL, an A2J advocate, and a member of our Blog steering group, reflect on Malcolm and Anne's conversation, and explore the fault lines between lawyers and the general public on this issue. In other news: the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has released a new report, “Investing in Justice: A Literature Review in Support of the Case for Improved Access”; the Canadian government has given a one-time grant of $5 million to the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin Access to Justice Fund, which continues to grow through the support of many donors, including the Federation of Law Societies, and some major law firms; the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law has opened the first ever Class Action Clinic, which is meant to help individual class members and members of the public understand their rights and navigate legal proceedings; and finally, in case you missed it, NSRLP recently published our intake report for 2018 and 2019, our ongoing effort to track the trends around self-representation in Canada. For related links and more on this episode, visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/an-accountable-legal-profession/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

A2J has become one of the many buzzwords in the justice sector, but what does true access to justice look like? What can courts do to tip the scales toward accessibility? Join host Sue Humphreys as she digs into court accessibility with special guest Renee Danser, Associate Director of Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School.     

In its third year, Access to Justice Week (from Oct. 20 to 26) provides opportunities to engage in conversations about access to justice and highlight initiatives aimed at improving access to justice in Saskatchewan. Our communications specialist, Julie Sobowale, and Director of Legal Resources and Communications, Melanie Hodges Neufeld, spoke with Brea Lowenberger from CREATE Justice and Kim Newsham from the Ministry of Justice on the growing demand for access to justice and what’s coming up in Access to Justice week.

So many bots, so little time! Everywhere you turn there's another website with a chatbot, or another article about them…often followed by a bunch of doomsday predictions about more lawyers and legal business professionals losing their jobs! So, what's the real deal? Are legal bots a fabulous tech tool that can assist lawyers in spending more time where they add the most value e.g. with their clients, understanding their client's problems, their businesses, and focussing on the more complex problem solving they do so well? Or, will legal bots provide more support, assistance and information to those who otherwise cannot afford legal services. Or, is there a less rosy scenario for everyone somewhere down the road. Or, is it a little of all of these things? In other words, what's the real impact, right now, of legal bots and, where will it all go from here? We spoke with Sam Flynn, a lawyer and co-founder of Josef, a company that develops bots but also connects these with document automation and data. It' a company that has rapidly and deservedly found itself leading the industry in this area, at home and overseas. Topics covered in our conversation included:   Some quick definitions for all the bots out there. The pros and cons of bots. How law firms and legal departments are using bots and why. How the use of bots is changing how lawyers work, what lawyers work on (i.e. where they focus their time) and the impact this is having on legal education. The work Josef has been doing in running summer programs for clerks/associates in law firms on bot development around the world and how that is developing skills but also acting as a catalyst for legal innovation. Whether or not government funding for legal bots (recently announced by the NSW government when we recorded this podcast) would assist with improving A2J. Where to start on the bot learning continuum. And finally, what will the 2025 version of a bot look like and do! Thank you so much, Sam - we love your work – you amaze and inspire us all! You can also read more about Sam's journey in his CLI Legalpreneurs Spotlight on the CLI website.

JOIT is still on hiatus, but in light of the current increasing unrest in Hong Kong, we're re-releasing this episode from the winter of 2018, with a new introduction from Julie. Benny Tai has spent the last few months in prison, but thankfully is currently out on bail ahead of an appeal. We wish Benny and all those involved in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong success and safety. *** This week [March 2018] Julie talks to Benny Tai Yiu-ting, professor of constitutional law at Hong Kong University. Prof. Tai has argued that civil disobedience may be necessary for achieving universal suffrage in Hong Kong, and has become the leader of Hong Kong’s Occupy movement, and what has come to be known as the Umbrella movement for democracy. He has also been charged with three counts of public nuisance following the end of the Occupy demonstrations calling for universal suffrage, which took place in Hong Kong in 2014. Each of these charges carries a maximum prison term of 7 years. Professor Tai is awaiting sentencing. In this conversation, Benny Tai is joined by two law students who share their thoughts about the democracy movement. In other news, LFO announces a new core funding program for A2J non-profits; Precedent Magazine publishes an important piece on the mental health crisis among lawyers; and Julie’s latest blog post discusses the NSRLP’s new court transcripts project. For related links and more on this episode, visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/still-holding-out-for-democracy-special-re-release/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

Melanie Hodges-Neufeld - Director of Legal Resources, Law Society of SaskatchewanBrea Lowenberger - Director of Create Justice A2J Lab, University of SaskatchewanMegan Smiley - LawMatters Program Coordinator, Courthouse Libraries BCHighlights:Discussion of Saskatchewan Access to Legal Information (SALI) projectServing the public and triage of public legal information needs from within public and courthouse libraries and library networksAddressing critical legal information gaps through trusted intermediariescoordination of A2J efforts across multiple stakeholder groupsDeveloping and learning from best practicesVideo of this interview available on YouTube

The scope of practice for paralegals, especially to help family litigants, has become a central issue in the debate over A2J in Canada. In this episode, Nancy Merrill, a family lawyer and mediator, and now the President of the BC Law Society, talks about her vision for expanding alternative legal services in BC, and her hopes for change. Will BC become a battleground for this issue as it has in Ontario, in the wake of the (still not implemented)Bonkalo report? Nancy’s commitment to the BC Law Society being a “courageous and innovative regulator” extends to rethinking legal education and training, promoting diversity initiatives, and increasing awareness about mental health challenges in the legal profession. In other news: NSRLP will have intervener status in a case at the Alberta Court of Appeal, in the context of the apparently increasing frequency with which SRLs are designated vexatious, or have contempt orders issued against them; the Ontario Court of Appeal has published an order providing CBC the right to place cameras in particular courtrooms to record, live-stream, and broadcast specific proceedings, and we’re hopeful this could result in more openness and transparency in court proceedings; the Ontario government has announced a fundamental change to the justice system by vastly expanding the pool of potential jurors, to better reflect economic and racial diversity; and finally, Julie and Bernie Mayer recently presented a joint keynote address for the annual conference of the Ontario Association of Family Mediators and the Ontario Collaborative Law Federation, discussing the role of mediators in administering access to justice. For related links and more on this episode visit our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/can-bc-lead-the-way-on-paralegals/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

This episode is all about ethics! Gyi Tskalakis and Kelly Street were joined by Will Hornsby to discuss the challenges legal ethics bring to a solo and small law firm. We also learn how Will became a go-to legal marketing ethics expert.  After serving as staff counsel in the American Bar Association’s Division for Legal Services for 30 years, Will Hornsby now maintains a solo practice that helps lawyers, legal marketers and innovators maximize the potential of their communications and delivery models while understanding and complying with the ethics rules. His practice focuses on working with clients to explore opportunities to expand their marketplaces. Will is also an Illinois disciplinary hearing officer, an adjunct professor at Chicago Kent College of Law and a member of the Board of Directors of the Justice Entrepreneurs Project, a Chicago-based lawyer incubator. What's it like to go solo, what Will has been up to, and how unbundled services are still an untapped market.  Delivery of services and the challenges on changing the standard legal services delivery model, as it relates to ethics rules.  Legal movers & shakers are talking on social media but the conversation needs to move into ethics rules governance.  Where is 'the line' in legal ethics? It's important to know your particular state rules but not to be frozen by them. Understanding the ethics rules creates an opportunity and allows law firms to know if their marketing is ethical; it doesn't prohibit marketing.  Marketing can help solve the A2J - access to justice - issue in the marketplace.  Will's grid: People who don't know they have a problem/People who don't know it is a legal issue. Ex: Kids w/asthma caused by mold & Elderly people in assisted living need pre-nups Are reviews ethical? Is it ok to ask your clients for reviews? How to protect your clients online: using social media with legal ethics in mind. How changes in technology can open up new areas of legal practice.         

For our final episode of the season we’re taking a look at the ways social justice issues can be addressed through theatre. Dayna talks to Chris Rabideau and Moya McAlister of Arts Collective Theatre, Michael Potter of Post Productions, and well-known actor, writer, and mentor Leslie McCurdy, all of whom are doing their part to make the world a better, more thoughtful place through theatre. Julie and Dayna reflect on the power of story-telling and education through drama, and why theatre is more important now than ever. In other news, we’re appealing to all of our listeners to contribute to social justice and access to justice causes this holiday season. Given the access to justice crisis (exemplified by the threatened closure of Pro Bono Ontario help centres), it’s vital that we ensure organizations providing valuable public services are able to continue their work. Please consider including an A2J organization in your holiday donations. And season’s greetings and Happy New Year to all our listeners! For related links and more on this episode see our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

This week on the podcast we hear from delegates at the NSRLP’s recent 5th Anniversary event, “Continuing the Dialogue”, which brought together people from across the justice system, including self-represented litigants, to engage in frank discussion about the Access to Justice crisis, and what needs to happen to ensure SRLs have a place at the table. We asked everyone to give us one practical change that would make a real difference in Access to Justice, and recorded some fabulous responses from SRLs, lawyers, A2J advocates, and academics. To tie all these thoughts together, we asked our Event Facilitator, Bernie Mayer, to comment and reflect with Julie. Thanks to all our contributors: Dom Bautista, Denice Barry, Anthony Morgan, Joel Miller, Jeff Rose-Martland, Jana Saracevic, Kenneth Cheng, Ali Tejani, Randi Druzin, Judy Gayton, and Andrew Pilliar. In other news: The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice has released 3 new reports on Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada; the Law Society of BC is evaluating a proposal to establish a new category of legal practitioners; and for more on NSRLP’s Dialogue Event, see our recent blog co-written by Julie and Jennifer Muller. For more on this episode see our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/public-voices-matter/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

Today Julie talks to Justice David Price of the Ontario Superior Court, where he sits as a family court judge, about two issues that regularly raise anxieties and challenges for self-represented litigants: how to reduce the chances of being ordered to pay the costs of the other side, and how to organize and present arguments in court. Justice Price presents clear information for members of the public who are unable to afford expert assistance and are obliged to represent themselves. We also asked two SRLs, Jana Saracevic and Elizabeth Roberts, to comment on Justice Price’s “tutorial” and to reflect on how they learned to find their way through the system without this information. In other news: Ontario, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia celebrate their A2J weeks with fantastic events across the country this month. Visit our website for more on this episode: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/judges-and-srls-continuing-the-dialogue/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

Studying civil legal data increases understanding of access to justice problems and helps lawyers and laypeople alike see how they can be part of the solution. In this On The Road episode from The Oklahoma Summit on A2J, host John Williams talks to Ryan Gentzler, director of open justice Oklahoma, and Anna Carpenter, associate clinical professor of law at the University of Tulsa College of Law. They discuss the ways data helps them advocate for fair policies and services for low-income people. They also talk about how clinical study of law helps students see what access to justice looks like in real-life civil legal cases. Anna E. Carpenter is associate clinical professor of law and director of the Lobeck Taylor Community Advocacy Clinic. Ryan Gentzler is the director of open justice Oklahoma.

Welcome to Season Three of Jumping Off the Ivory Tower! Our season opener looks back - and forward - at 50 years of legal education at Windsor Law, established in 1968 with a mission then described as teaching "people's law, not lawyer's law". Dean Chris Waters, along with alums Justice Lloyd Dean, and Parisa Jiwa, discuss what they’ve learned from being part of Windsor Law, and the impact of Windsor's mission on their work, as well as how Windsor Law could do still better in facing new access to justice challenges. And we’re excited to announce that Ali Tejani, one of our fantastic NSRLP research assistants, is the new voice of our "In Other News" segment, our regular update on happenings in the world of A2J, presented as always with our particular "people's law" NSRLP angle. This week, Ali brings you reports from the US and Canada on unbundled legal services, as well as an announcement about a new NSRLP project to update our popular “primers” for SRLs. See our website for more on this episode: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/50-years-of-access-to-justice-education/ Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

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This week's episode focuses on the ongoing work of the UK's largest ever public inquiry, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (https://www.iicsa.org.uk/) or IICSA. IICSA is charged with discovering what went wrong in numerous institutions, including the Anglican church, where for decades ordained ministers sexually abused children and young people with impunity, covering-up their crimes and ignoring complaints. Julie was one of those abused as a young person and this podcast includes portions of her testimony to IICSA in March (with thanks to Mandate Now http://mandatenow.org.uk/ for providing the audio), as well as a reflection on the process with her lawyer, David Greenwood, and finally a comment from Gilo, a survivor of abuse himself and a leading activist, on the day that IICSA published its Interim Report. In other news: The National Action Committee on Access to Justice has released their report on Canada's progress toward A2J in 2017, and has listed NSRLP as a contributor to its justice development goals; and the Canadian Bar Association has released a new report on the role of lawyers in the justice system when considering the rise of self-represented litigants. For more on this episode see our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/shameful-history-sexual-abuse-in-the-anglican-church/

There are a lot of opinions about access to justice and Twitter happens to be the perfect place for these opinions to come to light. Recently, a discussion about access to justice solutions cropped up among lawyers on the platform and our executive producer, Laurence Colletti, decided it was worth recreating the conversation in podcast form. In this special edition report from On The Road, host Laurence Colletti gathers together some of the most vocal #A2J ranters on Twitter so they can share their ideas in real life. The ranters include Billie Tarascio, Catherine Sanders Reach, Dan Lear, Chad Burton, Chas Rampenthal, Mary Juetten, Joshua Lenon, Patrick Palace, and Janet Welch, who talk about regulation, data, LLLTs, and the other aspects that make up the complex problem of access to justice. Billie Tarascio is the founder of Access Legal and owner of the Modern Law. Catherine Sanders Reach is the director of law practice management technology for the  Chicago Bar Association. Dan Lear is currently the director of industry relations for Avvo. He is a technology lawyer, facilitator, and blogger. Chad Burton is the CEO of Curolegal and is a former litigator who developed one of the nation’s first “new model” law firms. Chas Rampenthal has served as general counsel for LegalZoom since 2003 and as corporate secretary since 2007. Mary Juetten is the founder and CEO of Traklight and the co-conspirator behind Evolve Law. Joshua Lenon is an attorney who serves as lawyer-in-residence for Clio. Patrick Palace is a plaintiff’s trial lawyer with an emphasis on workers’ compensation, personal injury, civil rights, and social security matters. Janet Welch is the executive director of the State Bar of Michigan.

This week Julie talks to Benny Tai Yiu-ting, professor of constitutional law at Hong Kong University. Prof. Tai has argued that civil disobedience may be necessary for achieving universal suffrage in Hong Kong, and has become the leader of Hong Kong’s Occupy movement, and what has come to be known as the Umbrella movement for democracy. He has also been charged with three counts of public nuisance following the end of the Occupy demonstrations calling for universal suffrage, which took place in Hong Kong in 2014. Each of these charges carries a maximum prison term of 7 years. Professor Tai is awaiting sentencing. In this conversation, Benny Tai is joined by two law students who share their thoughts about the democracy movement. In other news, LFO announces a new core funding program for A2J non-profits; Precedent Magazine publishes an important piece on the mental health crisis among lawyers; and Julie's latest blog post discusses the NSRLP's new court transcripts project. More on this episode on our website: https://representingyourselfcanada.com/holding-out-for-democracy/

Sam Witherspoon is the Founder and CEO of MiraLaw - a legal tech start up based in Ottawa. Focused on leveraging technology to address access to justice issues, MiraLaw has created a product, Thistoo, that is intended to help mitigate the A2J issues faced by parties in Family Law. In this varied conversation, we talk about Sam's journey from law school to founding MiraLaw, the idea behind Thistoo and Miralaw's other product Compass, the future effect of technology on the practice of law, and the challenges of founding your own legal tech start up. Sam recommends the book The Hard Things by Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. You can also find more info on MiraLaw here.