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we all know that we Bank differently we get our news differently we get our entertainment differently we shop differently we all use the new technologies the internet-based platforms the new delivery systems to perform just about every daily task that we used to we all expect that that we will perform and get our services in a different way but one of the last bastions of doing things traditionally is in our legal profession but 86% of the people in our country even below the pad or below the poverty line have smartphones and and it allows us to reach people that otherwise we could not reach and we can provide services for people who we traditionally have not been able to provide services for because of the reach and expansion of Technology it's incumbent upon us to try to bridge this justice gap and reach those segments of society who have not been using lawyers only only one out of four people in the country who has a legal problem goes to a lawyer now there's a latent market of for potential clients for especially for young lawyers to represent if we can modernize our procedures and we can use more creative technologies and we can lower the cost which technology allows us to do we can reach people who do not have access to our justice system or who have chosen not to use lawyers and we can provide legal services to those people and that that not only helps close the justice gap in American helps restore trust in our justice system but it also provides great opportunity for lawyers to lead the way it's just a basic human nature that we want to go to the office and we want to do things the same way we did it yesterday it's it's just easier that way but that's not closing the justice gap in our country it's not moving the needle the traditional one lawyer working on a client matter in the physical presence of that client often is is has kept us from reaching more people if you talk to people at legal services corporation they will tell you that some justice is better than the no justice and often we have tried to cling to a model that we have to do things the same way to provide the outstanding service but by trying to provide outstanding service to a limited group of people there's 80% of the public is getting no legal services so somehow we have to embrace technology we have to think of new ways of doing business we have to make sure that we're trying to reach more people it's it's really important for the strength and health of our our justice system and in people's confidence and belief that lawyers can change and adapt to the way that people want to see their services delivered the ABA has always tried to gather the best thinking that we could pull together on a number of issues we've just completed the work on a task force on the future of legal education and and what we've created through my request of the Board of Governors this year is a commission on the future of legal services what we found was that innovators and regulators and judges and lawyers weren't really talking to each other about ways that we could improve our justice system so what we've sought to do through this commission is break down the silos that have existed among and between different groups of people who who look at the legal system and see that it needs to change but perhaps haven't talked to the people who can help affect that change or lead that change so the Commission on the future of legal services is looking all around the country trying to identify best practices new platforms looking to young lawyers who are already adapting quickly to the changing environment and we're trying to come up with a blueprint for the future of legal services now some of that may suggest to us that there needs to be some rule changes that that that we can modify certain rules that might be limiting in the way that that limit the number of tools and ways that we can deliver legal services not just for the poor in the middle class but for everybody and so we will be looking to this commission on the future of legal services and and hopefully there will be some guidance there and and we can then make a determination once we identify the best practice we can then identify what rules maybe need to be changed to accommodate those best practices I just think Wisconsin is a beautiful state it's always been a state that many of us around the country look to for guidance and and as Justice Brandeis said in new state ice company versus Liebman this the states of the laboratories of innovative thinking in in law and in technology and science and so we're looking at the ABA we're looking to our state bars and and lawyer leaders and local communities to be the source of inspiration and new ideas and better ways of delivering services and hopefully the ABA can pull those ideas together and really develop a way to move forward in our profession but it's really going to come from the from the grassroots of our country and and we're very excited about working with the Wisconsin Bar Association the Wisconsin State Bar and and the lawyers here who do so much and lead nat not only in wisconsin but nationally in so many ways