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The latest news about the Duke Law Tech Lab
Legal Innovators: Duke Law Tech Lab
Attorney at Law Magazine
October 1, 2019
Durham-based start-up Courtroom5 won the $ 5,000 grand prize at Duke Law Tech Lab’s third annual Demo Day on Sept. 20. It was the culmination of a three-month pre-accelerator program for promising early-stage legal technology companies. Read more.
Online platform for pro se litigants wins grand prize at Duke Law Tech Lab Demo Day
Duke Law
September 23, 2019
A Durham-based start-up offering tools and resources for pro se litigants took the grand prize at Duke Law Tech Lab’s third annual Demo Day, the culmination of a pre-accelerator program for promising early-stage legal technology companies. Read more.
5 startups to pitch their legal platforms at Duke Law Tech Lab demo day
WRAL Tech Wire
September 19, 2019
Duke University’s Law Tech Lab is graduating its latest class of startups this Friday at a demo day event. Read more.
LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator picks 2 Triangle firms
WRAL Tech Wire
September 11, 2019
Two emerging startups from the Triangle are among the nine firms selected for the fourth cohort of the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. Read more.
Duke Center on Law & Technology selects 12 early-stage companies for pre-accelerator program
Duke Law
June 25, 2019
Twelve early-stage legal technology companies, including five with a core mission of expanding access to legal services, are participating this summer in the Duke Center on Law & Technology’s online pre-accelerator program, Duke Law Tech Lab. Read more.
Duke Law Wants to Help Early-Stage Startups Weather Legal Tech Challenges
Legal Tech News powered by Law.com
June 21, 2019
The third-year pre-accelerator program not only helps budding companies through general startup challenges, but also through roadblocks specific to a legal industry sometimes resistant to change. Read more.
Duke Law ‘Pre-Accelerator’ Picks 12 Startups, Links to LexisNexis Accelerator
Artificial Lawyer
June 18, 2019
The Duke Law Tech Lab, run by Duke Law school, has launched its latest legal tech incubator with 12 companies. This is the third year the programme has run, which they describe as a ‘pre-accelerator’. The project will potentially then feed some of the top cohort members into the LexisNexis legal tech accelerator, also in the US. Read more.
Future Law School. What does it look like?
Forbes
February 12, 2019
Crises in the justice systems across the world leave a huge imprint on the legal education system, which already has enough internal and external problems. Even reputable universities in the world are now actively seeking innovative solutions and people who are able to provide them with a qualitative push in the direction of improving the efficiency of educational services. Read more.
Startup Competition Guide: Accelerators targeting legal tech companies
Vator
December 20, 2018
Accelerators targeting legal tech companies include Tech Lawyer Accelerator, Duke Law Tech Lab and LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator. Read more.
News Archive
Event Spotlight: Hello Divorce Wins at Duke Law Tech Lab
Attorney At Law Magazine, NC Triangle Edition, Vol. 6 No. 6
December 2018
Duke Law Tech Lab caps three days of legal technology events with Demo Day
Duke Law
October 23, 2018
A start-up offering a do-it-yourself divorce platform won the grand prize in Duke Law Tech Lab’s second annual Big Ideas Demo Day competition, capping three days of events devoted to showcasing emerging legal technologies and innovative companies and entrepreneurs leading them. Read more.
Evolve the Law Podcast: Jeff Ward
Evolve the Law Podcast
October 19, 2018
Jeff Ward is the Director of the Duke Center on Law & Technology, which coordinates Duke’s leadership at the intersection of law and technology with programs like the Duke Law Tech Lab, a pre-accelerator for legal technology companies, and the Access Tech Tools Initiative, employing human-centered design thinking and available technologies to create tools to enhance access to legal services.
Seal Software and the Duke Law AI Showdown – #TheRealThing
Artificial Lawyer
October 11, 2018
At the invitation of Duke Law professor, Jeff Ward, last week Steve Harber and I, along with our Seal Software colleagues, Scott Ripps and Ian Walker, had the pleasure of collaborating with the Duke Center on Law and Technology, and law school students from Duke, UNC and Wake Forest, to test just how effective real AI can be for the analysis of thousands of corporate contracts in just a few hours. Here’s what we did. Read more.
Why more law schools are prioritizing technology integration
EdTech Magazine
August 23, 2018
Universities are investing in video conferencing, artificial intelligence and more to ensure future lawyers remain competitive and prepared. Read more. Or, read it in French.
Duke Law Tech Lab teams will present innovative ideas at Oct. 5 Demo Day
Duke Law
August 22, 2018
Seven teams have been chosen to participate in the Duke Law Tech Lab, a 10-week accelerator program for legal and civic service start-ups. Read more.
Duke Law's lab could make Durham a legal tech hub
WRAL Tech Wire
April 14, 2017
While last week’s Duke Law Tech Lab Demo Day was the first in the nascent Duke-based accelerator’s history, it signaled the start of an effort grand in both ambition and scope. Read more.
Duke Law's lab could make Durham a legal tech hub
WRAL Tech Wire
April 14, 2017
While last week’s Duke Law Tech Lab Demo Day was the first in the nascent Duke-based accelerator’s history, it signaled the start of an effort grand in both ambition and scope. Read more.
