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NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BALTIMORE, MD PERMIT No. 4903
‘Coding for Lawyers’ Keeps Legal Skills Current
For today’s lawyers, being tech- savvy means a lot more than being able to sort data in Excel. Effective
lawyering requires technological literacy, being comfortable with a variety of data platforms, and even knowing how to write computer code to better manage and interpret data.
This fall, Prof. Colin Starger will co- teach a new course, Coding for Lawyers, with Matt Stubenberg, associate
director of legal technology at Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab. Stubenberg created Maryland’s leading expungement website, MDExpungement. com, and worked as IT director at Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service.
In spring 2020, UB Law will launch a new clinic, Legal Data and Design. Starger is developing the clinic to help
students better understand the rapidly changing field of technology in the context of criminal justice, data privacy and other areas of the law.
Starger worked as a computer programmer before attending law school and is now associate director for legal technologies in the law school’s Center for the Law of Intellectual Property and Technology. He is also the principal
on the SCOTUS Mapping Project, a software-driven effort to map Supreme Court doctrine.
“I’ve been writing code to advance
my academic research and clinical
work for a while now,” says Starger. “It seems like the right time to engage more students in technology-assisted practice. It’s what the market wants and what social justice needs.”
Prof. Colin Starger
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