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Alexa, Please Transcribe These Court Proceedings: The cost of transcripts are a more important barrier to justice than most people realize

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Alexa, Please Transcribe These Court Proceedings: The cost of transcripts are a more important barrier to justice than most people realize

 

"For years, many solo and small firm lawyers have leveraged technology to support back-end functions such as case management, cloud-based document storage and legal research. But more recently, we’ve seen technology move away from behind the desk and towards the courtroom. The past few months brought news of a chatbot that will enable a consumer to prepare and file a lawsuit against Equifax in small claims court, a tool that enables consumers to file for bankruptcy without an attorney, and a platform that will upload and analyze a complaint and generate and answer and form interrogatories in minutes..."

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