#a2j — Public Fediverse posts
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Separately from how I feel about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughter, I was amazed that this is what the Supreme Court hosts for its own copy of Humphrey's Executor. It's a PDF/A w/ OCRd text but not searchable outside the opinion (even with site:suprem...). At least NPR found a reasonable web version (tho, with a bit of work, you can deep link to the PDF if you grab their internal hyperlink: https://www.supremecourt.gov/pdfs/USReports/USREPORTS-295_PDFA.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A4006%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22Fit%22%7D%5D ) Linking to, and sharing, law should be simpler.
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Great to be back at the WZB!
It's almost 20 years to the day since I started a research visit here that profoundly transformed my PhD research.
Now thrilled to be participating in this workshop on equal access to justice, with a fabulous line-up of socio-legal scholars from around the globe.
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Looking for a light morning read? How about Chief Justice Roberts' 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.
TL;DR: Roberts raises concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in the courts, emphasizing the need for caution and humility while noting the potential such tech might have for access to justice.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2023year-endreport.pdf
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📣 SSRN DROP
Currently "attending" the JURIX Workshop on AI and Access to Justice at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.¹
I'm remote, but @qsteenhuis is there in-person presenting a paper we wrote with @brycew on the use of LLMs to help with the drafting of guided interviews.
Weaving Pathways for Justice with GPT: LLM-driven automated drafting of interactive legal applications, up now on SSRN @ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4661195
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If you're into #LegalTech or know folks who are, please boost!!! Our annual hybrid conference is back in Boston & online! #LITCon2024 (4/8/24)
Focus: Practical AI in the Real World
Conference site: https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2024
Get notification when registration opens: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3T4471XKgPYZ4dfU2_VV_KprFFDGqCbpE0hOV-ITJuBe_UQ/viewform
Pitch an idea for a rapid-fire talk: https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2024/litbits/
Check out last year’s talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy6i9GFGw5GwuczR7PkFoaKDk2ic78loP
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Looking for a job in #a2j and technology? The new Justice Tech Capstone program at OSU's Moritz College of Law is looking for a Staff Attorney/Fellow. The program is run by the incredible Amy Schmitz, and I'm so proud to have it at Moritz! https://osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job/Columbus-Campus/JusticeTech-Project-Attorney--Staff-Attorney-_R90494-2
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Starting to round the corner on my recent Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, and this short piece from our law college web folks is a nice recap of some of the progress we've made in building out the Rural Reconciliation Project as a really robust, interdisciplinary research space - deeply grateful to Carnegie Corporation for all the support:
https://law.unl.edu/node/4505/
#rural #law #policy #interdisciplinary #land #water #A2J #CarnegieFellow
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It's an early prototype, and there's no guarantee that the bot would be able to do everything that you could do with Scenario Editor, or by writing code in the Test Editor. But it's already clear that a lot of the basic use-cases are within its power, and there are a lot of opportunities to make it better at using Blawx.
The potential here for trustworthy, easy-to-use legal automation for #A2J access to justice seems absolutely massive.
Really big.
7/7
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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CW: profanity inspired by DoNotPay
@sglassmeyer has the better of the quotes in this article on DoNotPay. See https://www.jacobsilverman.com/p/angry-users-want-donotpay-to-pay
“The stakes are high and you can't (pardon my language) just fuck around with people's lives like that,” Sarah. 🔥 🔥 🔥
“My fear is that Browder's cavalier attitude jeopardizes setting back the recent movement behind [using tech to help address the #A2J crisis],” me. 🤓
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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/
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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/
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As a champion for #ProBono work, Chief Justice Richard Wagner was happy to meet @PBSCUBC volunteers working on access to justice initiatives at @AllardLaw.
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Chief Justice Richard Wagner was pleased to speak at an event for Juripop in Montreal.
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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.
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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
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This #PiDay lock in early-bird pricing for #LITCon2023 ($25 in-person/$0 online). Cost of registration goes up tomorrow. Beware the Ides of March! 🗡️🥗
Q: What is LITCon?
A: @SuffolkLITLab's annual #LegalTech con, in Boston & online (April 3rd). We're focusing on collaboration at scale. Our keynote is Daniel Yi from US DOJ's Civil Right's Div. We'll talk #A2J, #AI, #OSS, and much much more.
Learn more & register here: https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2023/
Please boost! We're not on the bird site anymore.
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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/
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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
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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! ❤️