This is my keynote from Legal Tech Startup Weekend in San Francisco August 17, 2014.

1. Ron Dolin
Keynote
August 17, 2014

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Overview
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Case Study – Speeding
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Case Study – Book Lending
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Legal Innovation
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This Weekend – Proposal Breakdown
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Attracting Engineers, Investors, etc.
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Stanford Work, Hastings Projects
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Lessons (to be) Learned
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Q & A

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Speeding
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Proposal – self regulating cars
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No traffic cops/courts
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Everyone speeds though
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Auto pay?
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Max speed pre-set?
Pay in advance to drive
faster?

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Book Lending (not “legal tech”)
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Paper – how many
− readers per day?
− readers per book?
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Compare with electronic token passing
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Copyright and Fair Use didn't change
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Goal is to incentivize authorship
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Statutes need a minimum lending time?

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Legal Tech Issues
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Access to justice
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Automation, transparency
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Implied technology assumptions in law
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Measuring quality (human and machine)
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Trade-offs between efficiency and quality
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Training lawyers to use/develop new tools
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Informational analysis of legal problems
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etc. etc. etc.

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From Whence Legal Innovation?
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Courts?
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Small firms?
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Large firms?
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Established providers?
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Innovator's Dilemma/Solution
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Legal Technology Startups
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Modria, Rocket Lawyer, LegalZoom, Ravel...

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This Weekend's Breakdown
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What did you focus on?
− access, bail, renters, awareness,
contracts
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Which areas of law?
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Which types of technology?
− NLP, cloud, video, visualization?, expert
systems?, ...
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How might you monetize?
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What are the barriers to adoption?
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Who might fund you?

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Building Complete Teams
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How to attract engineers?
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How to attract business folks?
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How to attract designers?
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How to attract investors?
While we're at it:
- How to attract customers?
- How to build markets (e.g.
standards)?

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Stanford, Hastings Work
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Stanford:
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Taught Legal Tech (taking class on the road)
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(w/ Margaret Hagan)
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Center on the Legal Profession
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Hastings
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Startup Legal Garage (focus on legal tech startups)
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjbDaPfVUZI

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Lessons (to be) Learned
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Design process – rapid prototyping, testing
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Complete teams
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Feasibility, viability, etc.
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Empathy for your clients
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Evangelizing the need
for revamping the legal system

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Contact Info
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legaltechdesign.com
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Ron.A.Dolin@radicalconcepts.com
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@legalnoise