MaRS’ new LegalX cluster hopes tech can save lawyers from themselves
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Solomon and Jason Moyse, the manager of legal business solutions at Elevate Services, are the two masterminds behind LegalX. So those pressures are what are starting to really hit legal, and there’s a lot of resistance to it by lawyers, particularly at large firms as they’ve made a good living by following a model that’s been around for a long time.” “When people around the world think of legal innovation, the number one spot in the world they’re going to think about is LegalX at MaRS,” Solomon added. It’s gonna be this amazing synergy between all of these things.” The event kicked off with pitches from LawScout, a MaRS-based legal tech startup that connects small businesses with legal services, and Beagle, an interactive contract analysis company currently participating in the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator program in Seattle. The panelists included Monica Bay, a Fellow at CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics; Sanjay S. Kamlani, executive director of Matterhorn Transactions; Mitch Kowalski, author of Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21st Century, Dan Lear, director of industry relations at Avvo Inc.; Cian O’Sullivan, founder of Beagle; and Noah Waisberg, CEO and co-founder of Kira Inc. One issue that was often brought up was the industry’s resistance to change, and how lawyers could address that. Innovation and disruption in law looks a lot like any other sector; it’s people focused on solving a problem very effectively, efficiently and better than someone else has.” Kowalski expanded on that point, saying that lawyers need more freedom to fail.
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