When should court forms ask for user pronouns? See https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/docs/question_library/pronouns

Our lab helped the #Massachusetts appeals court add appropriate pronoun questions to several guided interviews at courtformsonline.org, and we made the questions reusable across all of our forms.

#A2J #AccessToJustice #Pride #law

Our paper about https://ratemypdf.com at #ICAIL was awarded the best paper award for the innovative applications track! Validation of wide interest in our concept of improving court forms for #SelfRepresentedLitigants and #AccessToJustice

You can read it here:
https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/docs/complexity/complexity/#download-and-cite-our-paper

#Readability #A2J #accessibility #law

Live tomorrow at 10 a.m. EDT, Chief Justice Wagner will update Canadians on the work of the country’s highest court and take questions from journalists. Watch it live on http://CPAC.ca.

#CdnLaw #a2j

En direct demain à 10 h HAE, le juge en chef Wagner présentera une mise à jour sur le travail de la plus haute cour du pays et répondra aux questions des journalistes. Regardez-le en direct sur http://CPAC.ca.

#CdnLaw #a2j #CSC_en_français

Thrilled that my cover story on #LLMs (e.g., #ChatGPT) is seeing the light of day. Topics:
- Potential to improve #legal practice
- Opportunities for firm #businessmodels
- Benefits of Legal LLMs (Foundational Models)
- Opportunities for #Courts + #A2J)

https://www.mnbar.org/resources/publications/bench-bar/articles/2023/05/24/we-need-to-talk-about-chatgpt

On #AI, #LLMs (e.g., #GPT-4, #Dolly2), consider:

1. #Law binds everyone (ignorance ≠ excuse)

2. Law = "free" — but in US, costs money (e.g., PACER's $0.10/page)

3. Access to Justice (#A2J) = massive problem. 80% of #legal needs unmet

RESULT: Best justice money can buy?

What if a solution — #FoundationalModel for law — helps all of the above?

RELATED: The UK is investing £100 million to build a #FoundationalModel #LLM. Government #data = LLM's foundational model

https://www.engadget.com/the-uk-is-creating-a-100-million-ai-taskforce-143507868.html

5. My other #A2J concern was briefly mentioned in a different panel (I’m forgetting by whom): Court & Agency bottlenecks.

When people mention Access to Justice they frequently are thinking of access to initiating proceedings. But if courts or agencies have processing bottlenecks downstream of initiation (spoiler alert: they do), then using tech / AI to facilitate initial filings will increase overall backlogs and lengthen processing times for everyone. See: Little’s Law. 5/

4. There was lots of optimism around the potential for GPT powered tools to improve #A2J, but a few folks, including Gillian Hadfield, recognized a scenario where an AI / legaltech arms race will accelerate the distance between “haves” and “haves-nots.” I strongly share this view.

Pablo Arredando of CaseText / Co-counsel inadvertently supported this concern with his remarks around how excited the anti-union labor & employment firm Fisher Phillips (a Co-Counsel launch partner) is. 4/

As a champion for #ProBono work, Chief Justice Richard Wagner was happy to meet @PBSCUBC volunteers working on access to justice initiatives at @AllardLaw.

#PBSC #a2j #AccessToJustice

Visited the the 3d Appellate District #California Court of Appeals building & State Law Library space to learn from peers how to talk to #legislators about library value and encourage them to support public #law libraries' role in access to #justice. #a2j #funding #LawLibraries #libraries #Sacramento #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #photography

Chief Justice Richard Wagner was pleased to speak at an event for Juripop in Montreal.

#ProBono #a2j #AccessToJustice

Le juge en chef Richard Wagner a eu le plaisir de prononcer une allocution lors d’un événement organisé par Juripop à Montréal.

#ProBono #a2j #AccèsÀLaJustice #CSC_en_français

Now available, the Court’s 5th annual Year in Review. This report provides an informative and engaging account of the work of the Court.

#a2J #AccessToJustice #CdnLaw

https://scc-csc.ca/review-revue/2022/index-eng.html

La 5e rétrospective annuelle de la Cour est maintenant disponible. Ce rapport fournit un compte rendu informatif et attrayant des travaux de la Cour.

#a2j #AccèsÀLaJustice #DroitCdn

https://scc-csc.ca/review-revue/2022/index-fra.html #CSC_en_français

Can #ChatGPT Revolutionize Access To Justice In India? #a2j https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2023/02/14/can-chatgpt-revolutionize-access-to-justice-in-india/

Interesting results from our first analysis of 15,000 US court forms: average reading grade level of about 10th grade! Experts suggest targeting 4th grade for self-represented litigants. With @brycew and @SuffolkLITLab

#a2j #AccessToJustice #courts #readability

Job opening: Justice Innovation Lead, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and Legal Design Lab, Stanford Law School #a2j #accesstojustice #legaltech #legaldesign #legalinnovation
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/justice-innovation-lead-stanford-law-school-20260

Good evening good folx of the #Fediverse :fediverse: In tonight's #ConnectionList #FollowFriday #Introduction post, where I use my high follower count to connect us more richly, I'd like you to meet:

@CriticalAI is an #InterDisciplinary initiative at #Rutgers which is taking a critical perspective to all things #AI. I've been to several of their seminars featuring folks like @emilymbender and @vukosi and they're fantastic!

https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/

@sglassmeyer is Sarah and they're a #law #librarian and into #LawTech #A2J, and #InformationScience 👋

Dr @irisvirus is Iris and they do #crystallography #DataProcessing at #LawrenceBerkeley #researcher #academic. They're new here, let's give them a warm welcome 👋

@shenki is Joel and he's into #OpenSource, #EmbeddedSystems like #Arduino and is also a #runner #running 👋 (big ups for the regex-in-less tip btw!)

@nitashatiku is the #tech #culture reporter at the @washingtonpost - warm welcome to #Mastodon, Nitasha! 👋

@cobalt is a #Disability advocate, #CareGiver, and is into #technology, #science, #photography and #geology. Based in #Phoenix #Arizona 👋

@passamezzo is a #musician, #historian and #mother. Into #EarlyMusic, #EarlyModern #Tudor #Folklore 👋

That's all for tonight, don't forget to post your own connection lists so we can connect the Fediverse! ❤️

Looks like Browder gave up his air pod courtroom representation idea: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151435033/a-robot-was-scheduled-to-argue-in-court-then-came-the-jail-threats

#AI #UnauthorizedPracticeOfLaw #upl #AccessToJustice #a2j

This is concerning, from an access to justice perspective - Manitoba's Court of Appeal is operating with 4 vacancies, including the Chief Justice position. Hopefully we will soon hear of new appointments to this Court: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/01/24/going-to-need-appointments-manitoba-court-of-appeal-judges-bench-at-half-strength

#A2J #MBCourts #Courts #AccessToJustice