The 2019 Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI) was held July 20, 2019 and was the fourth conference produced by the Program on Law and Innovation. On July 20, 50 courageous people gathered at Vanderbilt Law School for a day-long interactive unconference designed to explore our human relationship with the fear of failure, the power of intelligent failure, its (necessary?) role in driving innovation across the legal industry, and more.
With curiosity and open minds, we shared stories, asked questions, hatched plans—all with a transparency and vulnerability that comes from true collaboration in a safe space.
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The 2018 Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI) took place on April 30, 2018, and is the third annual conference produced by Vanderbilt Law’s Program on Law and Innovation. To engage in both a broader and more inclusive discussion about how to move the legal profession forward through innovation, SoLI’s mission is to break down traditional silos across the legal profession by facilitating connections and collaborations to create meaningful and measurable innovation across legal education, legal practice, and our systems of justice.
In 2018, SoLI brought together thought and action leaders across legal education, legal practice, and legal technology to seed both practical innovations along with big ideas and concrete calls to innovation action. Three rounds of “ignite” talks included a primer delivered by an industry leader, who was followed by three short, dynamic talks from legal professions from across education, technology, and practice sectors. The full roster of speakers and the schedule can be found here.
By day’s end, legal professionals from across the spectrum — including law school deans, law librarians, in-house counsel, practitioners from both small and AmLaw 100 firms, legal operations professionals — collaborated with participants from other industries — including business, medicine, engineering, design, technology — to forge connections and design projects for turbo-charging innovation across the traditional silos.
The PoLI team also began planning for SoLI 2019, which will iterate on the SoLI mission and model to bring even greater collaboration to legal innovation going forward.
American Lawyer/law.com: Breaking Down Silos Between Tech, Firms and Academia to Reach Innovation
ABA Journal: SoLI and Its Facilitators Seek to Spur Innovation
ABA Journal: Conference to Tackle New Approaches for Law Schools, Lawyers and Legal Technologists
ABA for Law Students: Embracing Experiential Learning
Ahead of the Curve (ALM/law.com legal education blog): Interview with Cat and SoLI coverage
Legal Tech News/Law.com: Breaking Down Silos: SoLI's Pitch for How to Join in Legal Change
LawSites (legal blog): Four Upcoming Law School Conferences on Innovation in Law
LawSites (legal blog): Can Non-Lawyers Bring More Benefit to the Legal Profession? (post-SoLI)
Above the Law: Do it #SoLI Style: All Together Now (post-SoLI)
Legal Executive Institute: 6 Questions with Larry Bridgesmith
Reinventing Professionals (legal blog): The Power of Cognitive Diversity and Radical Collaboration
Alix Devendra (SoLI facilitator) blog post on SoLI
Law Geex (legal blog): SoLI in the top 5 things in legal tech
Latitude Legal (SoLI sponsor) SoLI Summary (blog post)
LegalTech Blog (legal blog based in Europe): SoLI Announcement
Evolve Law Blog: Major Strides Forward for Women in Legal Tech
Attorney at Work (legal blog): Three Takeaways from LegalWeek 2018
LegalIT Insider: SoLI Announcement
LegalIT Insider: Major Strides Forward for Women in Legal Tech
Market Intelligence (legal blog): SoLI promo
Biz Journals: SoLI Press Release
Yahoo Finance: SoLI Press Release
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Vanderbilt Law School's conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, held in April 2016, attracted much media attention. Speakers included Richard Susskind , international speaker, independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments, and author of Tomorrow's Lawyers and The Future of the Professions, and Andrew Arruda, whose firm ROSS Intelligence helped build ROSS, the world's first artificially intelligent attorney, on top of IBM Watson.
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Vanderbilt University: Provost appoints Online Education Committee - Vanderbilt will take stock of its resources for online education through the work of a new provost-appointed committee to ensure that the schools and colleges receive the needed support for these offerings, which advance the university’s mission of educating the whole student while encouraging lifelong learning. Professor Cat Moon is among the committee members.
Cat Moon to be a keynote speaker for the 2019 Legal Design Summit on November 13 in Helsinki. She will also be coaching the BrainFactory, a 3-day design sprint with law students leading up to the Summit.
Forbes: An Institute for Law and Innovation -
Law.com: Ahead of the Curve: Welcome to Campus, Gen Z - Wake Forest law professor Laura Graham discusses Gen Z and what law schools need to know about teaching them; the University of Pennsylvania Law School makes attorney well-being part of its mandatory professional responsibility course; and Vanderbilt's Program on Law and Innovation launches a hands-on certificate program for practitioners.
Business Wire: Vanderbilt Law School Launches New PoLI Institute Immersion-Based Programs and Certificate in Law and Innovation - Vanderbilt Law School and its Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) officially launched the PoLI Institute and a new Certificate in Law and Innovation program. The PoLI Institute introduces a practical educational opportunity for both practicing attorneys and legal professionals, reaching far beyond the impact of hourly CLE courses.
Washington Lawyer: Law School in the Modern Era - Article highlights classes focused on the real-world aspects of practicing law. J.B. Ruhl, director, program in law and innovation, is quoted and the Program on Law and Innovation is featured.
Bitcoin: Legal field embraces promising use cases for blockchain tech - On April 7, attorneys and tech luminaries gathered at Vanderbilt University for “Blockchain and the Law,” a conference dedicated to the future of distributed ledger technology in the legal realm. The event, sponsored by Vanderbilt Law School’s Program on Law and Innovation, along with several local law and media firms, offered a chance for leaders at the fledgling cross-section between the worlds to give brief, TedTalk-esque presentations to a wider audience. Larry Bridgesmith, adjunct professor of law and coordinator of POLI, was quoted. The story also ran in Nasdaq.
The Huffington Post: Vanderbilt affiliates’ PredictGov uses machine learning to forecast Congress - A new website that forecasts Congressional bills’ success predicted the Affordable Care Act replacement bill would be shelved, awarding it a 15 percent chance of enactment. PredictGov, which uses big data and artificial intelligence to reach its conclusions, is the invention of a team of researchers that includes J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, and John Nay, a Vanderbilt doctoral student in integrated computational decision science. Ruhl and Nay are quoted. A similar story was also posted on Mashable .
The Young Lawyer (American Bar Association): Opinion: Try (legal) hacking around - J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, writes about the growing importance of “legal hacking,” which involves bringing together legal and technological experts to solve practical problems of community access to law and justice.
The National Law Journal: Preparing lawyers to be practice-ready in a tech-driven world - Getting law students practice-ready by graduation has always been a challenge for law schools, but many schools have begun to look beyond traditional legal training to enable students to compete in an increasingly tech-driven legal market. Larry W. Bridgesmith, adjunct professor of law and coordinator of the Program on Law and Innovation, is quoted. (Subscription required). A related story was posted by Law.com.
Professor Larry Bridgesmith: Should "Prevention" Be a Core Principle of AI? Intraspexion trains a Deep Learning algorithm, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), to learn about certain types of legal threats, and eventually provide in-house attorneys with an early warning of the risks. This AI functionality has been developed to avoid or prevent litigation. Read more
Music City Legal Hackers Take First Place at Georgia Bar Legal Hackathon - The Music City Legal Hackers, a group sponsored by Vanderbilt Law School's Program on Law and Innovation that brings legal professionals and computer experts together to explore technology solutions for legal practice problems, took home the first-place prize of $2,000 at the Georgia State Bar Association's first legal hackathon in Atlanta Sept. 12-13.