October 24, 2024
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Empowering Women and Advancing Justice Innovation
Angela Conway, leader of the Lady Justice Initiative, discusses her organization’s efforts to support women in legal innovation and provide strategic resources for justice-oriented initiatives. Angela shares findings from her global research on barriers faced by women in law and outlines offerings like executive mentoring, strategic advisory services, and the newly launched “Empowering Women, Building the Future of Law” initiative, which focuses on mentorship, access to finance, and skills development for women innovators. The Lady Justice Initiative offers exclusive discounts to JTA members.
September 26, 2024
Navigating Regulatory Challenges
Ken Friedman, JTA advisor and former general counsel at LegalZoom, shares strategies for dealing with inquiries from state bars, AGs, and other regulatory bodies, emphasizing the importance of transparency and focusing on customer care. He also offers guidance on avoiding legal pitfalls with AI tools and provides a high-level overview of common regulatory challenges within the justice tech industry. As co-founder of L&F Brown Law‘s industry-first practice focused on legal and justice tech startups, Ken offers exclusive discounts to JTA members.
July 25, 2024
Scaling Justice Work with Technology
Sasha Steinberg, founder of Legal Link, discusses the organization’s work training community partners as justice workers to help address legal issues related to poverty and housing insecurity. They empower non-lawyers with legal knowledge and integrating technology tools and are exploring partnerships with tech developers to enhance their programs, including JTA members. Legal Link also supports other states in implementing similar models.
June 27, 2024
Customer Acquisition Strategies
JTA founding member and CEO of HelloDivorce Erin Levine and Michael Stych, founder of JTA member Contend, and other members discuss customer acquisition strategies, focusing on social media, partnerships, organic content, and various funnel techniques to grow their user bases. Insights are shared on leveraging SEO, partnership opportunities, and the importance of understanding market timing for effective growth.
May 23, 2024
AI Integration and Operational Optimization
Nick Chapleau from JTA Mission-Aligned Organization Dodon.AI discusses how AI can streamline workflows in legal tech, focusing on solutions like deposition summaries, medical record chronologies, and document management. He also highlights case studies of operational optimizations, particularly in law firm settings, covering CRM integration, automation, and client communication. Members engage with ideas on improving intake, efficiency, and how similar strategies can support justice tech startups. Dodon.AI offers exclusive benefits to JTA members.
April 25, 2023
Insider’s Tour of new UPL Database
A new UPL database created by Innovation 4 Justice presents an opportunity to fuel change in jurisdictions considering UPL reform. Erin Weaver shares the project and JTA member exclusive early access. While domestic violence was the focus of this project, it was used as a case study to illustrate the need and success of early UPL reform efforts, and the database can be used for any reform effort, as this large-scale replicable framework, supported by a national dataset, can empower policy change.
March 28, 2024
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Justice Tech Business Models
Garrett Ordower, Counsel at JTA Mission-Aligned Organization Scale LLP, discusses the intricacies of setting up a two-company model involving law firms and tech companies. He covers ethical considerations, nonlawyer supervision, financing, and the impact of AI on legal services.
January 25, 2024
Justice Tech Startup Report Review with Kelli Raker
Duke Law Tech Lab‘s Kelli Raker presents her findings on how to best support justice tech startups, current regulatory challenges, funding models, and community insights.
December 7, 2023
2023 End of Year Recap with Maya Markovich
This informal end-of-year gathering discusses 2023 successes and 2024 plans, including accelerator partnerships, strategic alliances, and support initiatives for justice tech startups, while seeking member feedback and sharing individual updates from members.
October 26, 2023
How Engine advocates for Startups
Imani Webb from Engine discusses their nonprofit’s advocacy for pro-startup policies and shares ways startups can engage with lawmakers and get involved in Engine’s initiatives.
September 28, 2023
Free Law Project’s advocacy and tools
Mike Lissner from the Free Law Project shares their work on making legal data more accessible, including efforts to reform PACER, improve judicial financial disclosures, and advocate for judicial FOIA, while highlighting tools and datasets available for legal tech innovation.
August 24, 2023
Gaining Arizona ABS Status
Natalie Knowlton, JTA Advisor, and Chase Hertel from JTA Partner A2J Ventures provide an overview of the ABS program in Arizona, focusing on its application process, opportunities for non-lawyer participation, and compliance requirements for legal tech startups.
July 27, 2023
Amplifying your personal branding
Sameena Safdar, CEO of Amplify Your Voice, highlights the importance of authenticity for justice tech founders, emphasizing engagement and social media to drive business growth.
July 17, 2023
Testing your business strategy in the Utah Sandbox
Regulatory reform experts Natalie Knowlton and Chase Hertel share the details, and implications of Utah’s legal regulatory sandbox, including its framework, regulatory objectives, and the opportunities it offers for innovation in legal services.
May 25, 2023
Designing Justice Tech Solutions
Theory & Principle CEO and JTA Advisor Nicole Bradick shares insights on designing justice tech. The leading development shop for legal tech, Theory & Principle has built custom solutions for law firms, legal tech startups, legal aid orgs and nonprofits with a unique focus on justice tech.
April 27, 2023
Leveraging GPT for Access to Justice
Nick Chapleau of Dodon.AI discusses the various use cases of ChatGPT and large language models in access to justice to assist legal aid providers and consumers by simplifying complex legal documents, automating routine tasks, and improving client intake and case triage. The forum also discussed ethical considerations, including the need for safeguards when using AI for pro se litigants and legal research, as well as potential partnerships between legal professionals and AI to enhance efficiency.
March 23, 2023
JTA Partner Spotlight: Gener8tor and LexLab Accelerator
Claudius Taylor of Gener8tor and Drew Amerson of LexLab share their programs, the difference between accelerators and incubators, highlighting how each supports justice tech entrepreneurs in buidling networks and gaining traction, and how JTA members can get plugged in.
January 26, 2023
Building relationships between justice tech, government, and nonprofits
TA Advisor Katherine Alteneder from Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) shares strategies justice tech community to collaborate with government and nonprofits, focusing on our joint mission to overcome challenges in the justice system.
December 8, 2022
How to measure and quantify your impact
Catherine Griffin, CEO of JTA Partner Impactable X, discusses approaches for justice tech companies to measure their social impact, She shares a framework for identifying and quantifying key impact metrics, emphasizing the importance of aligning these metrics with your company’s core value proposition, and provides examples for creating meaningful impact projections.