How is technology changing law practice and what does it mean for the future? These are the slides from a presentation I gave Oct. 1, 2012, at the FirmFuture conference in Boston.
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MANAGED CHAOS: WHY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEEDS BLOCKCHAINSteven Rhyner
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These are slides from my presentation at the Law Firm Leaders Forum in New York, Nov. 6-7, 2014. Part I covers Substantive Hints of Change: Innovative Technology Popping Up and Part II covers Legal Design: Structured Innovation Process and Focus on Client/User Needs.
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Always-on connectivity is eliminating the gap between here and there. We call this trend Anywhereization. And it’s changing the way we do everything
Anywhereization is not just a technological phenomenon. We are witnessing the demise of distance. Our shopping habits, entertainment and even relationships have become truly global. With increasing reliance on the cloud, and in a world where @ and # are hard currency, ubiquitous connectivity is no longer a luxury – even at the basecamp on Mount Everest.
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The demand of bandwidth is exploding irrespective to the global economic slowdown. It comes from new sources and new devices and the change is going fast. We must not forget to consider our fast-moving environment when telling our new story. These global trends affect us as a carrier. And at the same time our network and services are a part of making them possible.
Socialization of everything - Online socialization is changing the very basis for how people behave and interact. On an individual level, and in society at large.
Anywhereization - Wherever you are, you want instant access to everything, no matter where it is. As a global carrier we are keeping it all together
A flattening world - Today we see global access to knowledge that previously was limited to a chosen few – all made possible through connectivity. We support this for instance through our donations to the Wikimedia foundation, which runs Wikipedia.
The age of diversity - Access to network capabilities will come in many shapes and forms, with diverse business models coexisting for the foreseeable future.
Connecting the dots - We believe that every industry will eventually rely on connectivity to create value. The ones that best leverage the network will outpace their competitors.
The world is going online and it is the carriers that make it happen.
We have to optimize our network so that you can access anything, anywhere, anytime
Osiz technologies offers powerful technologically upgraded Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and applications that enhances your business to attain more benefits of IoT technology. For this purpose, we build exact IoT solutions that suits your business nature and based on its extensiveness of the enterprise.
The Future Legal Marketplace: Innovation, Extrapreneurship, and a Law Withou...Michele DeStefano
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Paralegal Power Breaks are short information packed sessions that provide useful career information to paralegals at all career levels.
Always-on connectivity is eliminating the gap between here and there. We call this trend Anywhereization. And it’s changing the way we do everything
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Technology can transform the law – but only if done right (ReInvent Law Londo...Anna Ronkainen
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On December 9 & 10, Deloitte hosted over 20 business executives and thought leaders at the Internet of Things (IoT) Grand Challenge Workshop at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The objective of the gathering was to work collectively to solve one of the more largely unexplored areas of IoT: revenue generating IoT use cases. The following report captures what was discussed during this extraordinary event where an open, collaborative dialogue focused on advancing the field of IoT.
Explore the key findings here or learn more at www2.deloitte.com/us/IoT-challenge.
Doing More with Less: How Technology is Helping Deliver Legal ServicesRobert Ambrogi
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Legal Framework For E Commerce In Ecowas AfricaDayo Ogunyemi
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Compliance and software transparency for legal machinesVytautas Čyras
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Abstract: This paper attempts to define the software compliance and transparency problem. This constitutes a high level holistic view. The context is the changeover from a text culture to a machine culture. Note that equal access to e-procedures does not guarantee justice. The transparency of the law leads to the transparency of software and hence challenges legal informatics. We formulate two requirements for legal machines: 1) software architecture must be made accessible; and 2) software must provide legal protection. A need therefore arises for the legal requirements to flow down to lower level specifications. We explain the notion of subsumption – a legal qualification of facts according to a norm’s circumstance. In the end we discuss the definition of the compliance problem.
Introduction
We address regulatory compliance as an ideal and attempt providing holistic abstract formulations of the problem. A layperson in law (e.g., a software engineer) and a jurist may view legal rule violations differently. The reason is that a layperson can barely understand the whole interconnectedness of legal norms. Therefore, determining software compliance with the law is a complex problem. Note that an information system can cause harm as any misused artifact can. For example, a computer generated message can cause a heart attack analogously as a pencil can serve as a murder tool.
Consider the question “Is software compliant with the law?” The answer need not be “yes” or “no” but can extend to an evaluation spectrum from optimistic to pessimistic. We find this question similar to the question, “Can machines think?” by Alan Turing [13]. Turing begins with the definitions and the meaning of the terms “machine” and “think”. Analogously, we regard the terms “compliant” and “the law”.
This paper extends our earlier studies on legal machines [2], transparency [3], and compliance [4]. A legal machine can be defined as a machine in a system whose actions have legal importance and legal consequences [2].
There are simple legal machines, such as traffic lights, barriers and vending machines, and complex ones, such as the electronic forms that are used for taxes and finance. An example of the latter is FinanzOnline that provides a one-click link to the Austrian tax administration; see https://finanzonline.bmf.gv.at/. Legal machines shift raw facts into institutional facts, i.e., facts that have legal importance. The raw facts come from the Is world, whereas the institutional facts come from the Ought. For example, a fraud is committed when dropping fake coins in a vending machine whereas a child may put outdated coins in her piggybank. Is and Ought are distinguished in the theory of law; see Hans Kelsen [6]. Legal machines contribute to law enforcement, and their software implement legal norms.
Lessons for interoperability remedies from UK Open Bankingblogzilla
The UK’s Open Banking programme is a world-leading experiment in requiring banks to open up customer accounts (with their explicit consent) to third-party providers. What lessons can be learnt from this case for legislation that would require dominant platforms to provide similar functionality?
ORIGINAL PAPERAt the foundations of information justice.docxaman341480
ORIGINAL PAPER
At the foundations of information justice
Matthew P. Butcher
Published online: 10 February 2009
� Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Abstract Is there such a thing as information justice? In
this paper, I argue that the current state of the information
economy, particularly as it regards information and com-
puting technology (ICT), is unjust, conferring power
disproportionately on the information-wealthy at great
expense to the information-poor. As ICT becomes the pri-
mary method for accessing and manipulating information, it
ought to be treated as a foundational layer of the information
economy. I argue that by maximizing the liberties (freedom
to use, freedom to distribute, freedom to modify, and so on)
associated with certain computer software, an incentives-
rich and stable environment can be established in ICT that
will foster development of the information economy among
the information poor. I suggest that the now-mature Free and
Open Source Software paradigm, which has already pro-
duced widely-used enterprise-class applications, can be
harnessed in support of these ends.
Keywords Information and computer technology �
Information justice � Information economy �
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
In 2004, the Business Software Association (BSA) and
Microsoft Corporation contacted the government of Indo-
nesia, claiming that the country owed licensing fees for
Microsoft software running on 500,000 computers. The
cost of purchasing licenses to run a single basic functional
computer workstation powered by Microsoft software is
$524.98 USD, which works out to a whopping 47.73% of
the per capita GDP of Indonesia.1 But escaping such an
expense by simply avoiding the use of an operating system
is unfeasible. The operating system is the base-level pro-
gram that bridges the computer’s hardware with all of the
standard programs. A computer without an operating
system is a worthless piece of equipment, incapable of
performing any significant computing tasks.2 Recent
research suggests that the Indonesia case is not a rarity.3 In
his article ‘‘License Fees and GDP Per Capita,’’ Rishab
Ghosh calculated the cost of license fees for Windows XP
based on the per capita GDP. The results were stunning: In
47 of 176 sampled countries, the cost of running Microsoft
Windows plus Microsoft Office was greater than the per
capita GDP of the country.4 In Vietnam, the software cost
M. P. Butcher (&)
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, Crown
Center, Suite 300, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626,
USA
e-mail: [email protected]
1 The $524.98 price tag is based on the Amazon.com price (as of
Nov. 2006) for Windows XP Home Edition ($194.99) and Microsoft
Office 2003 Standard Edition (329.99). Retail price for these is much
higher. In 2004, these were the lowest end of Microsoft’s operating
system and office packs. According the the CIA Fact Book, the GDP
of Indonesia is.
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15. “People are
increasingly drawn
toward the simplicity of
services and service-
enabled software that
just works.”
- Ray Ozzie, former Microsoft
chief software architect
16. Lawyers who use Web-based software
2008 2010 2012
13% 20% 21%
Survey: ABA Legal Technology Survey Report
26. “Technology has leveled the
playing field, enabling solo
practitioners and small law firms
to establish a large-firm-like
presence online and serve clients
in locations that fall outside their
historical/traditional geographic
reach.”
- Technology’s Transformation of the Legal Field,
Robert Half Legal, August 2012
27. “Globalization continues to
transform the legal marketplace,
with more clients confronting legal
problems that cross jurisdictional
lines and more lawyers needing to
respond to those client needs by
crossing borders (including
virtually).
- ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20
36. “Technology is a double-
edged sword. One result is
that we have great new tools
with which to do our jobs.
But at the same time, the
pace of our work — and
therefore of our lives — has
increased with each new
tool.”
39. “To maintain the requisite
knowledge and skill, a lawyer
should keep abreast of changes
in the law and its practice,
including the benefits and risks
associated with technology…”
- August 2012 change to comment to
ABA Model Rule 1.1, Competence
41. “Markets are conversations…
“These conversations are most
often about value: the value of
products and of the businesses
that sell them.”
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
43. ABA Model Rule
on Practice • Practice up to one
Pending year in new state
Admission
ABA Model Rule
on Admission by
• Admission by
Motion motion after 3 years
Uniform Bar
Exam • In use in 10 states
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88% regularly check law-related email when away from the office
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Easy browser access24 X 7 availabilityLow cost of entry and predictable monthly expense
Not just about the cloud.
Document sharingMessagingInvoicingCase updatesSchedulingClient portalsDirectLawInteract with clients onlineLet clients access their case filesAutomate creation of legal forms and collection of information
With virtual comes UNBUNDLINGDirectly selling legal documents
EMPOWERINGConnectionsMobilityGlobal reachCloud technologyLow costCheaperFrom our desk or our beachhouse