Presenter(s):
Ron Staudt, Chicago-Kent College of Law
John Mayer, CALI
The legal profession is endangered. Law schools are in trouble. New lawyers are unprepared for economic and technological reality. There’s vast unmet need for legal services.
Apps for Justice attacks these four related problems.
The basic idea is to greatly expand programs in which students create software as part of their education. Courses that engage students in creating ‘apps for justice’ – software applications that do useful legal work – can take on many forms.
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction