Legal tech and the future of civil justice / / edited by David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University.

• TeilnehmendeR: Engstrom, David Freeman,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, United Kingdom ;, New York, NY : : Cambridge University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 397pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2023).

New digital technologies, from AI-fired 'legal tech' tools to virtual proceedings, are transforming the legal system. But much of the debate surrounding legal tech has zoomed out to a nebulous future of 'robo-judges' and 'robo-lawyers.' This volume is an antidote. Zeroing in on the near- to medium-term, it provides a concrete, empirically minded synthesis of the impact of new digital technologies on litigation and access to justice. How far and fast can legal tech advance given regulatory, organizational, and technological constraints? How will new technologies affect lawyers and litigants, and how should procedural rules adapt? How can technology expand - or curtail - access to justice? And how must judicial administration change to promote healthy technological development and open courthouse doors for all? By engaging these essential questions, this volume helps to map the opportunities and the perils of a rapidly digitizing legal system - and provides grounded advice for a sensible path forward. This book is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

Regulation, culture, markets : the future of legal tech / Benjamin H. Barton -- Lawtech : levelling the playing field in legal services? / John Armour & Mari Sako -- Natural language processing in legal tech / Julian Nyarko & Jens Frankenreiter -- Remote testimony / Renee L. Danser, D. James Greiner, Elizabeth Guo & Erik Koltun -- Gamesmanship in modern discovery tech / Neel Guha, Peter Henderson, & Diego A. Zambrano -- Legal tech and the litigation playing field / David Freeman Engstrom & Nora Freeman Engstrom -- Litigation outcome prediction, access to justice, and legal prediction / Charlotte S. Alexander -- Towards the participatory MDL : a low-tech step to promote tech step to promote litigant autonomy / Todd Venook & Nora Freeman Engstrom -- The supply and demand of legal help on the internet / Margaret Hagan -- Digital inequalities and access to justice : dialing into zoom court unrepresented / Victor D. Quintanilla, Kurt Hugenberg, Margaret Hagan, Amy Gonzales, Ryan Hutchings, & Nedim Yel -- Online dispute resolution and the end of adversarial justice? / Norman W. Spaulding -- Using ODR platforms to level the playing field : improving pro se litigation through ODR design / J.J. Prescott -- The disruption we needed : COVID-19, court technology, and access to justice / Chief Justice Bridget M. McCormack -- Free PACER / Jonah B. Gelbach -- Technological challenges facing the judiciary / Albert H. Yoon -- The civil justice data gap / Tanina Rostain & Amy O'Hara.