LSC's 2019 Innovations in Technology Conference: Full Schedule

The 2019 Innovations in Technology Conference will be held at the JW Marriott New Orleans, 614 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA. All attendees must register using the conference registration website.

4:30pm CST

Legal Aid Hackathon Presentations

You’re invited to watch the presentations from the Legal Aid Hackathon – a pre-conference event sponsored by the Legal Aid Drupal Users Collective. The objective of the hackathon is to develop open source tools and Drupal solutions to improve access to justice. Start your conference experience with inspiring technology developments that increase access to justice!

Tuesday January 8, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
Ile De France Ballroom 3rd Floor

General Session

6:00pm CST

Legal Tech Startup Talks

This new session will showcase 5-6 innovative legal technology startups that are addressing the access to justice crisis. Each startup group will have 10 minutes to share their product and perspective and discuss its implications for the legal aid community. While this isn't a pitch competition, we hope it will lead to an important dialogue about bringing new ideas into the access to justice space.

Speakers

Nathaniel Baca

Founder, Walden.ly

Justin Brownstone

Litigation Counsel/VP of Sales, Gavelytics

Before joining Gavelytics, Justin spent most of the last decade as a litigator in Big Law and at a Los Angeles litigation boutique. Justin graduated in the top 10 of his class at the UCLA School of Law, where he was also a Managing Editor of Law Review. He earned his undergraduate... Read More →

Tom Martin

CEO and Founder, LawDroid

Tom Martin is a legal bot advocate, lawyer, author and speaker. He is CEO and founder of LawDroid Ltd. (a legal AI company dedicated to helping lawyers automate their law practice). Tom is also co-founder of Vancouver Legal Hackers, advisor to ATJ Tech Fellow Program, member of ARAG... Read More →

Dorna Moini

Founder, HelpSelf

Dorna is the founder of HelpSelf, a no-code document automation tool allowing legal aid to create powerful platforms to streamline repetitive work - without the help of a developer. The software has been called the "easiest document assembly tool" and it takes just 10 minutes to learn... Read More →

Thomas Officer

Desiner, Cofouonder, Community.lawyer

I lead Design at Community.lawyer, a "no code" app builder and marketing platform for legal service professionals. Designing legal services means rethinking (1) people; (2) process; and sometimes (3) tech. If tech is part of your legal design work, you should leverage off-the-shelf... Read More →

George Simons

Founder, Lawble

Tuesday January 8, 2019 6:00pm - 7:30pm CST
Ile De France Ballroom 3rd Floor

General Session

8:30am CST

Welcome and Opening with LSC President Jim Sandman

Speakers

Jim Sandman

President, Legal Services Corporation

Jim Sandman has been president of the Legal Services Corporation since 2011. Jim practiced with the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP for 30 years and served as the firm's Managing Partner for a decade. From 2007 to 2011, he was General Counsel of the District of Columbia Public Schools... Read More →

Wednesday January 9, 2019 8:30am - 9:15am CST
Ile De France Ballroom 3rd Floor

General Session

9:15am CST

Opening Plenary: Rapid Fire Tech Talks

This fast-paced and informative general session will feature 6-minute talks highlighting a variety of topics in legal technology and access to justice. Each presenter will have 20 slides that are advanced automatically every 20 seconds. The rapid-fire talk topics in this session are:

Head in the Cloud? You Better Know the Ethics Too - Mark C. Palmer
International Developments in Access to Justice - Roger Smith
Lawyer Websites, Access to Justice & Behavioral Economics - Renee Knake
Legal Tech Sustainability Begins with Integrating the Future Lawyer - Sara Agate
The History of Legal Services from 2019 to 2039 - Will Hornsby

Sara Agate

Future Lawyer 2019, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

Sara Agate has been embracing tech for several years in telehealth as a thought-leader on how urban communities face similar access to healthcare services issues as rural areas. She joins the legal tech space with a focus on bridging the gap between health, law, and tech. She is on... Read More →

Will Hornsby

Lawyer, The Law Office of William Hornsby

Will Hornsby served as staff counsel at the American Bar Association from 1988 to 2018, where he advanced models and policies to improve the delivery of legal services to those of moderate incomes. In this role, he fostered unbundled legal services, self-help centers, lawyer incubators... Read More →

Renee Knake Jefferson

Professor of Law, University of Houston

Renee Knake is a Professor of Law and the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center. In 2019, she will be the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneruship and Innovation at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She is an author of two... Read More →

Mark C. Palmer

Professionalism Counsel, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

Advocating #professionalism for @illinoiscourts | @UIllinoisLaw Adjunct Professor | father, husband, attorney, traveler #legaltech #futurelawMark C. Palmer serves as Professionalism Counsel under the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism to facilitate the promotion... Read More →

Roger Smith

Professor, London South Bank University

Roger is an English lawyer who has worked in a variety of NGOs. He authors a website and blog on global developments in technology and access to justice for the Legal Education Foundation (law-tech-a2j.org).

Wednesday January 9, 2019 9:15am - 10:00am CST
Ile De France Ballroom 3rd Floor

General Session

5:15pm CST

Rapid Fire Tech Talks

If you had six minutes to share an idea, best practice, or show off a technology project, what would you talk about? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically every 20 seconds? Around the world, geeks have been putting together events like this to share their ideas. This plenary will feature a series of short presentations highlighting innovative technology projects and ideas. It will be fast-paced and informative! This session will feature talks on:

20 Tips for Making Great Videos - Sart Rowe
A Framework for Measuring Online Legal Resources: The Drake Equation for Legal Aid - Laura Quinn
Alexa, Drop in on Legal Aid - Steven McGarrity
Automate Your Social Media Now - Maureen Jouhet
Free Set of Universal Icons for North American Legal Sector - Tanu Padath
Introducing A2J.org - John Mayer

Speakers

Maureen Jouhet

Content Director, Illinois Legal Aid Online

As Content Director at Illinois Legal Aid Online, Maureen helps lower the barriers to the law for lower-income Illinois residents. Maureen is energized by the possibilities of technology. A hard-core content strategy evangelist and creative professional, she understands the importance... Read More →

John Mayer

Executive Director, CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction)

Executive Director of CALI - law school consortium. Developers of A2J Author and hosts of A2J.org. Not a lawyer, 30 years working in tech, legal education and access to justice.

Steven McGarrity

Executive Director, Community Legal Aid, Ohio

Steven McGarrity is the executive director of Community Legal Aid Services in northeast Ohio. Mr. McGarrity started with Legal Aid as an attorney, focusing his practice on family law and consumer debt. In his time with Legal Aid, he has held various management positions, including... Read More →

Tanushree Padath

Designer, Transcend

Tanu is a former Biologist turned Designer. Her many responsibilities at Transcend include proofing multi-lingual projects, editing plain language documents and designing documents for readability. But by far, her favorite project has been spearheading the Legal Icons Project - a... Read More →

Laura Quinn

Principal, Laura Quinn Consulting

Laura is an independent consultant specializing in the intersection of technology, user experience, and research to improve access to justice nationwide. Formerly the founding Executive Director of Idealware, she's helped organizations including Ohio Legal Help, the Florida Justice... Read More →

Sarterus Rowe

National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator, Northwest Justice Project

Sarterus Rowe is the National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator, Northwest Justice Project, Seattle. He is a techie-lawyer and access-to-justice wizard at NJP where he runs LSNTAP.org the Legal Service National Technology Assistance Project. He has produced over 1000 YouTube... Read More →

2019 IntroducingA2Jorg JohnMayer pptx

Thursday January 10, 2019 5:15pm - 6:00pm CST
Ile De France Ballroom 3rd Floor

General Session