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The Main Course: 5 Things You Should Know this Week
ODR and Legal Design: a terrific episode of the Lawyerist Podcast interviewing Shannon Salter on Canada's first online dispute resolution tribunal (with advice on how other communities can do likewise).
It’s Time to Make Cybersecurity a Priority: after almost 1 million law firm passwords were exposed, it's time to do something.
The Coming AI Revolution, Explained: the "Wait But Why" blog has an excellent, long piece on why AI will change everything (in law and beyond).
Global Legal Hackathon is Going to be a Big Deal: here is the ABA Journal's piece on the event, which is Feb. 23-25.
Technically Legal Podcast: I like podcasts, more so if they're about legal innovation & technology. The Technically Legal Podcast is a newcomer and looks promising, with 5 solids episodes already recorded.
A Lagniappe
John Perry Barlow, RIP. Grateful Dead lyricist, rancher, EFF co-founder, cyberspace pioneer. Read JPB's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and reflect for a moment just how far he was ahead of his time when he published it in 1996.
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.
Every day, he digest tons of content on these topics. The goal of Lawtomatic, his newsletter, is to curate the most interesting, valuable, and thought-provoking of these ideas.
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