{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What\u2019s Next in Legal Tech? A Podcast From Stanford\u2019s FutureLaw","description":"Duration: 22:08 The legal profession is hardly immune to the changes being wrought by technology. And Stanford University\u2019s CodeX Center\u2014a partnership between its law school and computer science department\u2014has been a significant contributor to those changes in recent years as an incubator for legal tech startups. Among the companies that have roots at CodeX are Bay Area legal analytics firms Lex Machina and Ravel Law. CodeX also has tried to give lawyers and other industry professionals a glimpse over the horizon with its annual \u201cFutureLaw\u201d conference. If there was an overriding theme&amp;nbsp;at this year\u2019s event&amp;nbsp;on April 6, it was that the current law firm model is unsustainable and isn\u2019t serving the needs of clients or society generally. University of Southern California Law Professor Gillian Hadfield, in a keynote, said that one survey of large company general counsels showed 70 percent would not recommend their primary law firm and that 80 percent are reducing the work they send out. &amp;nbsp;  RELATED ARTICLE:&amp;nbsp;Bigger Data, \u2018Tech Terror\u2019 and Diversity Disparities Mark CodeEx\u2019s Fifth FutureLaw &amp;nbsp;  In this&amp;nbsp;podcast, we take you inside the FutureLaw conference to hear from some of the speakers and attendees about how technologies like legal data analytics are evolving, how law firms can make themselves more efficient by embracing them, and what the limitations are. It\u2019s not all doom and gloom. \u201cI don\u2019t think that the law firm or the lawyer will go away, that they will be completely disrupted and there will only be robo-lawyers,\u201d said Roland Vogl, executive director of CodeX. \u201cI think a lot of those technologies that we\u2019re talking about are lawyer-enhancing.\u201d ","author_name":"Unprecedented","author_url":"http:\/\/unprecedented.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5735928\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/16915170"}