Who Wrote That Up For You?

Richard Granat shared lessons learned from many decades of building and selling legal tech, including the difficulty of educating lawyers on the digitization of the legal profession and its impact on serving the everyday needs of legal consumers. He also discussed the lack of transparency in pricing models for legal services and described the fixed-fee services at MD Family Lawyer, which are bundl...

Mbye Njie said the goal of the Legal Equalizer mobile app is to help prevent people from being forced into the criminal justice system by pretextual police traffic stops. He also expressed frustration with the venture capital community as a Black founder of a tech startup who's experienced moving the goalposts on traction. – Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/legaleqapp – Connect on Facebook:...

A2J Tech COO Mauricio Duarte discussed the No Code movement in software development and the tools they're using to help legal aid agencies, law firms, and justice tech companies build technology that improves access to justice. Mauricio shared his philosophy on the broader meaning of "access to justice" beyond having access to courts or lawyers. – Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoA2JTech...

People Clerk co-founder and CEO Camila Lopez discussed the experiences that drove her to create an app for people (mis)handling small claims without a lawyer She also described how People Clerk works to prepare customers to present their cases properly in court.  – Connect on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeopleClerk – Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/peopleclerk/ – Visit...

Professor Kevin P. Lee at NCCU Law discussed the wide-ranging impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including applications affecting legal rights, and the programs he is building to embed ethical considerations. He also offered a short course on the topic of jurisprudence (philosophy of law) and the need for the law to be accepted by the people governed by it. – Connect on LinkedIn: https://www...

Beyond the potential for physical harm that could result from a police traffic stop, there's the often unfair expense of a traffic ticket and the time lost from work to fight it. We speak with Elizabeth Richardson, Arkansas lawyer and founder of DispatchJustice.com, on their efforts to make a lawyer available by smartphone when you're stopped by the police.  – Connect on LinkedIn: https://www...

UniCourt's head of data operations, Jeff Cox, talks about the power of data to improve access to justice.   – Visit the UniCourt website: https://unicourt.com/ – Connect with Jeff Cox on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffCoxEsq – Connect with UniCourt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UniCourtInc   Hear about the challenges self-represented litigants face from activist Eric F. Wright,...

"Where'd you get the name?" We hear that often at Courtroom5, so we start the podcast with the back story of its name. In this first episode, we explain that a judge's question during oral argument -- "Who Wrote That Up For You?" -- sums up the experience of people without lawyers in U.S. courts. Get the full story on the Courtroom5 blog . We speak with Brian Vukadinovich, a highly experienced pro...