Redesigning Legal: Opening the Law for New Opportunities

As part of our Redesigning Legal Speaker Series, on March 31 IAALS and its partners explored the issues surrounding opening up access to the law, resources in the court systems, and the potential for new opportunities. 

Insulation in the legal system is a problem that has long plagued the industry. As evidence of this problem continues to mount in the form of access to justice statistics, financial stress on court systems, and limitations on the growth of the profession alongside the rest of an increasingly digital economy, the case for opening up the profession becomes stronger. However, this progress is not without drawbacks.

The panel featured Katherine Alteneder (Consulting Senior Strategic Advisor, Self-Represented Litigation Network), Carl Malamud (Founder, Public.Resource.Org), and Beth Simone Noveck (Director, Governance Lab, New York University and Chief Innovation Officer, State of New Jersey), whose conversation was moderated by Jameson Dempsey.