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The Main Course: 5 Things You Should Know this Week
The Important Interplay of Tech and Access to Justice: a terrific interview with Nicole Bradick that lays out the argument.
DOJ Closes Office for Access to Justice: another reminder that technologists and lawyers in private practice need to work on A2J because the government, at least within the Justice Dept., is no longer going to carry out this responsibility
Brave New World (of Policing): facial recognition glasses augment Chinese railway police for passenger screening (thanks to Mark Dawson for this tip!).
Chief Innovation Officers: What do you do? Josh Kubicki on their expanding rolewithin law firms and the challenges that comes along with it.
Contracts and Legal Design: I really enjoyed this piece, which discusses the purpose of contracts and the benefits of designing them the right way.
A Lagniappe
In school, I learned that H20 only exists as steam, water, or ice. Turns out that was WRONG.
About Gabe Teninbaum
(@GTeninbaum) is a professor at Suffolk Law (with additional affiliations at Yale, Harvard, and MIT) focusing on legal innovation, technology, and the changing business of law.
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