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"Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of professional service and, in particular, the way in which the IT and the Internet are changing the work of lawyers. He has worked on legal technology for over 30 years. He lectures internationally, has written many books, and advised on numerous government inquiries.
Richard lectures internationally and has been invited to speak in over 40 countries and has addressed audiences (in person and electronically), numbering more than 250,000. He has written and edited numerous books, including Expert Systems in Law (OUP, 1987), The Future of Law (OUP, 1996), Transforming the Law (OUP, 2000), The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005), The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (OUP, 2008), Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2013), and has written around 150 columns for The Times. His work has been translated into 10 languages."
You can follow Mr. Susskind on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/richardsusskind and on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsusskind and his website is (obviously) http://www.susskind.com/
New Mexico OneSource Website
Our friends at Lexum shared that they have recently brought the new NMOneSource.com website online with their legal research/indexing software system. The website “introduction” says:
“Welcome to NMOneSource.com 2.0! Free, online public access to the master database of official state laws, published by the New Mexico Compilation Commission, is now available to the citizens of New Mexico. NMOneSource.com is the official legal research tool of the New Mexico courts and legislature. Search and retrieve annotated statutes and court rules, appellate court opinions, and more from the collections below.”They now use a suite of Lexum technology including Decisia, Qweri, and Lexbox. Our good friend Pierre-Paul Lemyre provides full details in his blog post about the project here.
Podcast: Blockchain: Is It Your Court’s Future?
Our friend, Pete Kiefer shared news about his podcast with NCSC colleagues, Ms. Di Graski and Mr. Paul Embley. The discussion includes aspects of blockchain that prevent electronic hacking and the “the potential for securing the authenticity of court documents and even identities.” But it also asks, “(a)re we willing to pay the cost of Blockchain technology?”
Click here to connect to The Court Leader podcast episode.
Maricopa County (Phoenix) Arizona Unleashes a Jury Bot
Just kidding about the headline there. An article on azcentral.com describes the new “jury bot” named “Estrella” who “can help answer many questions about serving”. You start the conversation by clicking on the “question mark” on the lower right corner of the web page. Then Estrella pops up on the browser as shown below.
Estrella can be used with a smart phone or computer and “if the system doesn’t know the question, it will connect you to someone in the jury office who can help.”
Congratulations.
Tech Competence for Judges
Lawyer blogger (LawSites.com), podcast host, and technology enthusiast Bob Ambrogi writes in an article on the abovethelaw.com website that “those who set the conduct rules for judges issue a wake-up call” for tech competence. Bob notes that in his blog he has kept a tally of states that have adopted the Duty of Technology Competence as defined by the American Bar Association Model Rules of Profession Conduct.
Comment 8 to Model Rule 1.1 reads:
“Maintaining Competence
To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject.”Bob argues that judges intersect in “myriad” of ways with technology including “courtroom presentation and recording technology, evidence and discovery involving digital sources”, “deciding cases involving issue of technology”, “understanding the cultural and sociological implications of technology” and, “(e)thically using technology and social media in their own professional and personal lives”.
There are other examples and discussion points listed in the rest of the article. Recommended.
Windows 10 version 1903
Last, I am writing this post after doing the “features update” to my laptop. It took over two hours to install so make sure you give it plenty of time. The update does have quite a bit of new ‘eye candy’ and seems to have reduced the processor workload. Here is a nice article on all the new features at “howtogeek.com”
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