- By Gabe Teninbaum
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The Main Course: 5 Things You Should Know this Week
World Justice Project Study: a new survey is trying to understand global access to civil justice, and has some fascinating findings.
Why Excellence in Craft Matters for Lawyers: a thoughtful piece by Ken Grady.
GE and UnitedLex Make a Big Deal...and United Lex claims it'll save GE 30% on legal spend. If this works, get ready for a wave of other major collaborations!
Legal Tech as a Service: Gerry Riskin asks how firms that create new tools for clients can change the industry. A short piece that got my wheels turning.
First Virtual Hearing Held via Smart Phone in the UK: an impressive use of mobile tech to deliver justice efficiently, and a harbinger of things to come (hat tip Mark Dawson).
iNaturalist: if you like nature, tech, or fascinating things in general, this iPhone app is terrific. You open it, snap a photo of wildlife, and it identifies it for you by species. It's like Pokemon Go for grownups (with apologies to the grownup Pokemon players among us). Plus, it's free.
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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