Innovating within the Professional Monopoly: The Law of Unauthorized Practice Meets the Tech Boom

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Channel: Stanford Law School · 2014 · Education

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On April 17, 2014, Stanford's Program in Law, Science & Technology, along with the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics hosted the event "Innovating within the Professional Monopoly: The Law of Unauthorized Practice Meets the Technology Boom" with Professor Deborah Rhode. 

The discussion focused on the emergence of technology-driven legal service platforms, like LegalForce and Legalzoom, and how their business models fit within the well-established black letter law of each state forbidding the unauthorized practice of law.

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