The Justice Technology Association is a new non-profit trade association composed of legal tech entrepreneurs, consumers, policymakers, and investors created to advocate for using legal technology to close the justice gap.

It is estimated that approximately 75% of the U.S. population cannot afford lawyer fees and do not have adequate access to the legal system.…

You can create a Prenuptial Agreement at Hello Prenup without incurring high legal fees. It is another “pure play” law product website. It was brought to my attention when the co-founders, Julia Rodgers, a family attorney based in Boston, and Sarabeth Jaffe, a software engineer based in Seattle, pitched Hello Prenup on Shark…

SixFifty Technologies LLC. is a relatively new entrant into the automated legal forms marketplace focusing on providing automated employment legal forms and policies to corporations that range in size from 50 employees to 1,000 and larger. Examples of employment law forms include state-specific employment contracts, employment manuals, independent contractor agreements, privacy solutions, and return-to-work…

Gabriel Teninbaum has written a new how-to manual on how to productize legal work, which should be required reading by lawyers and others who are thinking about undertaking a productization of legal services project.  See Productizing Legal Work: Providing Legal Expertise at Scale.

Teninbaum is the Assistant Dean of Innovation, Strategic Initiatives, & Distance Education…

You have an idea – maybe already implemented – for an interactive software application that helps someone accomplish a legal task.  You’d like to make it available to others. Which platform should be used for delivery? What’s the best way to deliver the application to the target market?

Maybe you’re a public-interest-oriented sort who wants…

Estate Planning, traditionally the domain of the legal profession, is about to be disrupted by another new entrant, Vanilla. The company seeks to enable financial planners to offer estate planning services and documents to their clients through a network of attorneys. To be clear, by “disrupted”,  I mean the offering of a comprehensive estate…

Start With the Appropriate Entity

Before starting your journey towards creating a law product or automated legal service, an initial decision you must make is the kind of entity that owns, develops, and licenses the digital application. The choice of the operating entity is the first decision you must make when deciding the develop…

Marc Andreessen quipped in 2011: “Software is eating the world”. The idea of software substitutes for lawyers’ work is a radical idea for some lawyers.

The legal profession is not immune from this development. Law has a high information component. In a large sense, law is information or as Bill Palin, the young lawyer who …

Recently, there has been much discussion of the idea of “productized legal services” as the next transformational strategy that will enable lawyers to make money while they sleep, increase the volume of potential clients, and move away from the tyranny of the billable hour.

Some law firms have developed a product approach as a method…