Technology
- A New York City Bar Association podcast explores the partnership between Microsoft and the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project to streamline and scale the DACA renewal process for Dreamers. [4/17/25]
- RAILS (Responsible AI in Legal Services) at Duke Law has compiled a table of resources on access to justice, tech innovation, and regulation. [4/14/25]
- A self-represented litigant deployed an AI avatar in a prerecorded video presentation before an appellate panel of New York State judges, the New York Times reports. Fortune also reports. [4/4/25] An article in Business Insider (paywall) reports on the fallout. [4/11/25]
- An article in Forbes covers the Stanford CodeX and DLA Piper Law Track Conference of the UN AI For Good global platform. [4/10/25]
- The Georgetown University Law Center’s Global Perspectives on AI and the Law talks are now live. [3/19/25]
Regulatory Innovation
- California Assembly Bill 931 on consumer legal funding has moved out of the Assembly and been referred to committee in the Senate. [4/21/25]
- The UPL lawsuit against LegalZoom is heading to arbitration, Law360 reports. [4/17/25]
- An article by Joanna Goodman in the Law Society Gazette discusses ongoing conversations about legal regulation and legal culture in response to the Post Office scandal and other high-profile incidents involving lawyers. [4/11/25]
- An ABA Journal article covers a discussion at ABA Midyear on regulatory innovation and the efforts undertaken in Arizona. [4/10/25]
- Law360 reports (paywall) that KPMG and Google Cloud are partnering to co-develop offerings for AI-assisted contract review, research, and document analysis for KPMG Law US, operating as an alternative business structure in Arizona. [4/9/25]
Courts, Rules & Access to Justice
- The Texas House of Representatives Family & Fiduciary Relationships Subcommittee is considering HB 3819 that would require probate courts to allow parties to appear remotely for hearings in uncontested cases. [4/22/25]
- A New York Times Magazine article explores the human face of unrepresented litigation. [4/17/25]
- A recap and the recording of Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession’s conference “Inequality, Access to Justice, and the Rule of Law” is now available. Rhode Center Co-Director David Freeman Engstrom leads a panel discussion on The Future of Access to Justice. [4/11/25]
- Bob Ambrogi covers the recent release of the Stanford and LA Superior Court project report, on LawSites. [4/10/25]
- The National Center for State Courts has released a Tiny Chat on Referrals.
- Rhode Center Co-Director Nora Freeman Engstrom appears on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything Podcast to discuss the civil justice gap. [4/4/25]
- A new project has launched that is exploring how a range of funding models might be deployed to support the work of U.K. organizations providing free legal advice; the research is a collaboration between the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the Access to Justice Foundation, and the University of Surrey. [4/1/25]
The Profession
- Researchers from the Australian National University and University of Melbourne published findings from a survey on lawyer wellbeing, workplace incivility, and ethics. [4/16/25]
