2. Professor Jeannette Eicks Vermont Law School Center for Legal Innovation

3. Realities of Today

4. Domestic Violence

5. Limited Resources

6. Scale Affordable Legal Services Poverty Law Clients

7. 2.3 Legal Problems Each Year Middle Class Families Have Middle Class Families Have

8. They Do Not Seek Legal Advice They Do Not Seek Legal Advice They Do Not Understand Their Problem Is a Legal One

9. Consumer Alienation Consumer Alienation “We need to restructure legal services from the ground up and focus on clients, not lawyers.” – Jim Sandman, LSC

10. A troubling thought: Our Access to Justice challenge is a feature of our current system.

11. More Efficient Courts and Legal Practitioners

12. Small Innovations Borrowed from Other Industries

13. What Is Cybersecurity? Lawyers and technologists agree that cybersecurity Protects information and computational systems from attack, damage or unauthorized access Impacts national security, corporations and individuals Has proactive and reactive aspects Has grown as a field and deserves attention Alternative Legal Business Practices

14. Predict Outcomes and Prevent Mistakes

15. Sustaining Innovation

16. Disrupting Innovation

17. Bigger Change Is Coming

18. “Lawyers need to see our legal services challenges not as problems, but as opportunities.” William Hubbard, Former ABA President

19. Law Students Bring New Ideas and New Energy

20. DIY Apps – the Legal Hackathon

21. Legal Hackathon Course 2 or 3 credit course Open to J.D. and undergraduate students Involved stakeholders in legal and policy field​s Vermont agencies, legislature & judiciary Choice of projects Prototyped web and mobile apps Stakeholders, faculty and other interested parties judged apps

22. Project Charter – the project plan Goals Scope Assumptions Risks Constraints Deliverables Schedule estimates Criteria for success

23. Flowchart of legal logic

24. Rapid application prototyping tool

25. Iterative process - teams and stakeholders Parallel tasks for team members Presentations and judging

26. The Apps: Text-a-Lawyer Pocket Lawyer (now OccupyLaw) Pocket Lawyer Agricultural Lease Agreement (sustainability)

27. Immediate Student Outcomes Portfolio J.D. advantage careers Scope management Project management via Agile (scrum meetings) Plain English conveyance of legal concepts Collaborative work Formed partnerships with customer/stakeholder Detailed understanding a specific area of the law Responded to legal needs of underserved Long Term Student Outcomes

28. Hackathons Foster the Ideas of Tomorrow

29. Empower Change Leaders

30. Questions?