Future Law, Free Law? – Slaw

"The second annual FutureLaw Conference took place last Friday at Stanford University. Hosted by Codex – Stanford Center for Legal Informatics this was a conference 'focusing on how technology is changing the landscape of the legal profession and the law more broadly.' Judging by the comments in the storified #FutureLaw Twitter stream it looks like it was a very interesting and successful event. It was also live streamed and the day’s videos will be made available soon for those of us unable to attend ... Richard Susskind opened the proceedings with a talk entitled, 'The Future of Lawyers: From Denial to Disruption.' The first panel on 'Forging an Open Legal Document Ecosystem' really caught my eye featuring a wonderful mix of legal and technology types: Brian Carver (Free Law Project), Thomas Bruce (LII), Paul Sawaya (Restatement), and Julio Avalos (General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at GitHub) ..."