February 1st, 2019 | New York City

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What is Inspire.Legal™?

Too often, legal technology and innovation conferences simply rehash the same tired conversations and revolve around the brightest, shiniest new tech widgets in the market–widgets that frequently feel like solutions in search of problems.

Inspire.Legal™ is different.  We’re gathering together a diverse set of lawyers, clients, technologists, and other legal innovators to crowdsource a curated set of the most pressing problems facing our industry, collaborating to better understand and define the challenges crying out for more focus and inspiring creative new solutions through interactive programming and ecumenical dialogues.

Poor lawyer-technologist communication

 Effective communication channels rarely exist between the lawyers in the trenches experiencing acute pain and those with the technological skill or innovation experience to help

A legal innovation echo chamber

 Legal innovation conversations often happen in bubble starved of original thought and rife with recycled ideas and regurgitated tropes

Immense status quo inertia

The legal industry faces immense obstacles to progressive change–the combined force of which provides for an immense pressure to continue business as usual

A deeply Balkanized legal ecosystem

Despite often facing similar challenges, players in different regions of the legal landscape rarely have opportunities interact, ideate together, and cross-pollinate learning and inspiration

The Legal Problems Forum

The programming revolves around the “Legal Problems Forum,” a workshop-driven effort to crowdsource and curate two outputs:

Legal Problems Report

A report identifying those legal problems and gaps in the legal market that should be priorities for legal innovators moving forward.

     

    Request for Startups List

    A list identifying the companies/products tomorrow’s legal innovators should be building.

       

      Come prepared to contribute!  (To get the ball rolling, we’ll be asking for a Problem Statement in connection with registration.)

      The Unpanels

      In addition, to challenge and inspire attendees as they prepare for their Forum sessions, our Luminaries will lead provocative, interactive discussions to dive deep into key issues on the most critical fronts on the legal innovation landscape, including:

      • firm/client collaboration;

      • training the lawyers of tomorrow;

      • actionable analytics;

      • productization;

      • the evaluation of legal tech;

      • the composition of legal-service-delivery teams;

      • the evaluation of outside counsel; and

      • knowledge management in the age of security.

      The Unpanels will feed into our Forum workshopping, so stay tuned for descriptions as we analyze the Problem Statements you submit!

      Location & Schedule

      Inspire.Legal™ will take place on February 1, 2019, at New York Law School (185 West Broadway New York, NY 10013).

      Our Luminaries & Unpanel Moderators

      We’ve recruited a couple of dozen thought leaders in legal innovation to help us keep the discussion focused on where it can do the most good and season the process with a healthy dose of market intelligence and legal innovation experience.

       

      Vishal Agnihotri

      Vishal Agnihotri

      Ryan Alshak

      Ryan Alshak

      Haley Altman

      Haley Altman

      Alma Asay

      Alma Asay

      Ralph Baxter

      Ralph Baxter

      Joe Borstein

      Joe Borstein

      Nicole Bradick

      Nicole Bradick

      Paul Branscombe

      Paul Branscombe

      Leslie Brown

      Leslie Brown

      Phil Bryce

      Phil Bryce

      David Cambria

      David Cambria

      Felicity Conrad

      Felicity Conrad

      Jared Correia

      Jared Correia

      Anthony Crowell

      Anthony Crowell

      Nicholas d'Adhemar

      Nicholas d'Adhemar

      Matt D'Amore

      Matt D'Amore

      Patrick Delaney

      Patrick Delaney

      James Desjardins

      James Desjardins

      Monet Fauntleroy

      Monet Fauntleroy

      Casey Flaherty

      Casey Flaherty

      Carlos Gámez

      Carlos Gámez

      Chris Grant

      Chris Grant

      Joe Green

      Joe Green

      Lauren Hakala

      Lauren Hakala

      Bill Henderson

      Bill Henderson

      Aaron Katzel

      Aaron Katzel

      Catherine Krow

      Catherine Krow

      Emily Huters

      Emily Huters

      Christian Lang

      Christian Lang

      Mirra Levitt

      Mirra Levitt

      Dan Linna

      Dan Linna

      Bruce MacEwen

      Bruce MacEwen

      Anna McGrane

      Anna McGrane

      Adam Meisel

      Adam Meisel

      Hari Osofsky

      Hari Osofsky

      Evan Parker

      Evan Parker

      Jeroen Plink

      Jeroen Plink

      Augie Rakow

      Augie Rakow

      Dan Rodriguez

      Dan Rodriguez

      Rob Saccone

      Rob Saccone

      Jeff Sharer

      Jeff Sharer

      Nicola Shaver

      Nicola Shaver

      Ed Sohn

      Ed Sohn

      Janet Stanton

      Janet Stanton

      Mike Suchsland

      Mike Suchsland

      Richard Tromans

      Richard Tromans

      Jae Um

      Jae Um

      Anand Upadhye

      Anand Upadhye

      Bas Boris Visser

      Bas Boris Visser

      Tunji Williams

      Tunji Williams

      What types of "legal problems" are we talking about?

      That’s up to you!  One of the great hurdles in legal innovation is that too few front-line lawyers and clients are in the room for the dive-into-the-weeds-type legal innovation conversations.  Moreover, lawyers, clients, and other would-be-consumers of legal services are often facing the same sorts of challenges in different parts of the legal market, and the balkanization of the legal landscape prevents constructive cross-fertilization and insight-sharing.

      Inspire.Legal™ is an effort to break down these barriers and spark the conversations we’re not having. We’ll put our heads together to understand and define where our industry’s collective focus should be. 

      It all starts with you: the registrant Problem Statements

       To get the ball rolling and the juices flowing, every registrant (including our Luminaries) will identify one compelling un-addressed problem they’re facing that they believe is crying out for a solution.  We’ll be building on and refining that preliminary problem set on Feb. 1.

      You can lean more about the problems we’re trying to address and how the registrant problem statements should work by clicking the button below.

      What goes on the "request for startups" list?

      In addition to some big, complex challenges facing the legal industry, there’s LOTS of low-hanging fruit that innovators can and should harvest.  (We lawyers tend to be very risk-averse, which means that not as many domain experts have taken the leap to fix their own headaches as you might expect!)

      When we identify problems that have clear, discrete, but as-of-yet unmet solutions, we’re going to put them on a public list so tomorrow’s innovators and can easily pick up one of these pre-vetted balls and just start running.

       

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