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Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reform Finds It Is Driving ‘Substantial Innovation’ In Legal Services Delivery with No Harm to Consumers

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A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm. Who will be served by those innovations?

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Jack Rives, Former ABA Executive Director, Joins Rocket Lawyer to Lead New Professional Services Division

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He will also oversee the company’s alternative business structure initiatives in the UK and as part of the Utah regulatory sandbox, seek ABS designation in Arizona, and play a key role in executing Rocket Lawyer’s plans to use artificial intelligence to accelerate lawyer productivity.

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The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J

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In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. We talk often of the justice gap in this country — of the fact that the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems.

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At The TLTF Summit, It Was All About Making ‘Who Luck’ Happen, To Drive the Future of Legal Tech

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A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether an alternative business structure, licensed under Arizona’s liberalized legal regulatory scheme, could deliver legal services in other states. Is there a trickle-down effect in legal tech? I think it does, at least sometimes.

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Two more cases involving religious exercise claims

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Although the mission’s legal clinic is a faith-based organization that expects staff attorneys to “share their faith with clients,” the clinic also engages in providing legal services, and the court found “no indication that religious training is necessary” for such a position. City and County of San Francisco and Berger v.

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