The use of technology in the justice system must protect and advance the fundamental right and actual delivery of equal access to justice for all. In this, the State of Washington has been a pioneer. The Access to Justice Board and its Technology Committee have been working to assure that technology reduces or eliminates barriers and creates new pathways to equal and meaningful justice for more than 15 years. In 2004, the Access to Justice Technology Principles were adopted by the Washington State Supreme Court with that intent.
After 12 years of considerable change in the nature and use of technology in society generally, as well as technology’s relationship with the justice system, it is essential to evaluate and update the content and implementation of the ATJ Technology Principles. The 1½ day symposium will explore current court and legal system technology, societal and legal technology innovation, and the ATJ Technology Principles themselves through a series of workshops, flash talks, and small group sessions. The Symposium planning is being led by ATJ Technology Committee Co-Chairs Judge Laura Bradley and Emily McReynolds.
If you are not able to attend in person, we will be livestreaming the event here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQaDp-jniA.
On October 31, 2012, Justice Barbara Madsen was unanimously elected by her colleagues to serve a second term as the 55th Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court. As Chief Justice, she is the court's chief spokesperson, presides over Supreme Court hearings and conferences, and co-chairs the state's Board for Judicial Administration. The voters elected Justice Madsen as the third woman to serve on the Washington Supreme Court in 1992, and she was re-elected in 1998, 2004, and 2010.
Justice Madsen, a native of Renton, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1974 and earned her J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1977. While at Gonzaga, Justice Madsen volunteered many hours with Gonzaga's University Legal Assistance Clinic and Spokane Legal Services.
After completing law school, Justice Madsen worked as a public defender in King and Snohomish counties. In 1982, she joined the Seattle City Attorney's Office and was appointed Special Prosecutor in 1984. Mayor Charles Royer appointed Justice Madsen in 1988 to the Seattle Municipal Court bench, where she served as Presiding Judge.
Jim Bamberger has been working for equity and justice at the local, state and national level since he graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law 36 years ago. He has served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow, a staff attorney, litigation coordinator and program director for legal aid programs in Washington and Alaska. He has consulted for the national Legal Services Corporation and in 2005 was appointed by the Washington State Supreme Court to serve as the first Director of the Washington State Office of Civil Legal Aid. Mr. Bamberger serves on many state and federal committees and writes frequently on issues of justice and the delivery of civil legal aid services.
Laura T. Bradley is an Assistant Chief Industrial Appeals Judge who supervises hearing and review/mediation judges at the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals (BIIA). She has been instrumental in developing the agency's accommodation and language access programs. Judge Bradley was appointed to the Access to Justice (ATJ) Board in 2015. She serves as the co-chair of the Technology Committee.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Vint Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at the Internet Society, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the faculty of Stanford University. At Google, Cerf contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet.
Cerf sits on the US National Science Board and is a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cerf is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Computer Society, Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Steve González was first appointed, and then elected, to the Washington Supreme Court in 2012. Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice González served for ten years as a trial judge on the King County Superior Court hearing criminal, civil, juvenile, and family law cases.
Justice González is passionate about providing open access to the justice system for all. He was appointed by the Supreme Court to the Washington State Access to Justice Board and served on the Board for seven years, including the last two years as its Chair.
Donald Horowitz is a former King County Superior Court Judge, and has been in both private and public practice. He chaired the ATJ Board Committee which resulted in the State Supreme Court adopting the Access to Justice Technology Principles to assure that the use of technology in the justice system doesn’t perpetuate or add barriers to access to and use of the justice system, but instead eliminates barriers and creates opportunities for access to and delivery of quality justice for all. He is a member of the UW Information School’s Senior Advisory Board.
Emily McReynolds is the Program Director for the Tech Policy Lab. A collaboration between the University of Washington's Law School, Information School, and Computer Science & Engineering, the Lab focuses on emerging technology with the goal to strengthen and inform technology policy. lShe is the current co-Chair of the Washington State Access to Justice Board Tech Committee.
Mark O'Brien is the co-founder and Executive Director of Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit that increases access to justice for the poor and other vulnerable populations through innovative uses of technology, collaboration and volunteer mobilization. Founded in 1998, Pro Bono Net has built web platforms to support public interest lawyers, build broad based justice partnerships, and empower people in need to solve their own legal problems. Prior to starting Pro Bono Net, Mark spent eight years building a nationally recognized pro bono program at Davis Polk and Wardwell. He has served on the advisory boards of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Public Service Program and the Public Interest Law Alliance (Ireland), and is a member of the Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee of the New York City Bar, and of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he co-teaches the Technology, Innovation, and Law Practice Practicum.
Brian Rowe is a lawyer & techie at Northwest Justice Project, managing the National Technology Assistance Project and teaching at the University of Washington and Seattle University. Brian lectures on Privacy Law, Cyborg Rights, Ethics, Copyright and Information Policy. Find him online at Twitter, Instagram and Youtube @sarterus.
Tanina Rostain is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. She received an MA in Philosophy from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, she clerked for Ellen Ash Peters, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She practiced law for several years, returning in 1996 to Yale Law School as a Keck Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture. In 2008-09, she was a faculty fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School (winter term). Between 1999 and 2011, Professor Rostain was on the faculty of New York Law School, where she was the founder and co-director of the Center for Professional Values and Practice.
Richard Zorza was in 2013 described in a Resolution of Recognition by the Conferences of Chief Justices and State Court Administrators as having been “prolific in his production of influential scholarly articles, ground-breaking education curricula, innovative protocols and toolkits, [as having] served as the foremost ambassador and crusader for the cause of self represented litigants in the United States; and [as one whose] service has been marked by exceptional accomplishments which have benefited innumerable litigants and courts throughout the nation.” Now semi-retired, he has worked for the past twenty-five years on issues of access to justice, technology and legal ethics. Founder and Coordinator Emeritus of the Self Represented Litigation Network, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Zorza is also a former public defender, legal services attorney and justice technology designer. His book, The Self-Help Friendly Court: Designed from the Ground Up to Work for People Without Lawyers, was published by the National Center for State Courts in 2002.
Bob Boiko is a Principal Lecturer for the UW Information School. He teaches social networking technologies, information architecture, and system design. Over the last 15 years, he has designed, programmed and released numerous gamified, flipped and socialized learning systems that have been used by thousands of students. Prior to the iSchool, Bob founded Chase Bobko, a Web content and development company. Recognized worldwide as a leader in the field of content management, he has designed and built systems for some of the world's top technology corporations (including Microsoft, Motorola and Boeing) and leading NGO’s (including the UN, Gates Foundation and World Vision). Bob is internationally known for his lectures and workshops and has keynoted conferences in over a dozen countries. He is author of the books "Content Management Bible," "Laughing at the CIO," "Information Systems from the Info Out," and the science fiction novel "The Last Chameleon." Bob recently founded LearnTogether, a company that creates peer2peer, social learning systems for professionals.
Laura T. Bradley is an Assistant Chief Industrial Appeals Judge who supervises hearing and review/mediation judges at the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals (BIIA). She has been instrumental in developing the agency's accommodation and language access programs. Judge Bradley was appointed to the Access to Justice (ATJ) Board in 2015. She serves as the co-chair of the Technology Committee.
Emily McReynolds is the Program Director for the Tech Policy Lab. A collaboration between the University of Washington's Law School, Information School, and Computer Science & Engineering, the Lab focuses on emerging technology with the goal to strengthen and inform technology policy. lShe is the current co-Chair of the Washington State Access to Justice Board Tech Committee.
Donald Horowitz is a former King County Superior Court Judge, and has been in both private and public practice. He chaired the ATJ Board Committee which resulted in the State Supreme Court adopting the Access to Justice Technology Principles to assure that the use of technology in the justice system doesn’t perpetuate or add barriers to access to and use of the justice system, but instead eliminates barriers and creates opportunities for access to and delivery of quality justice for all. He is a member of the UW Information School’s Senior Advisory Board.
Claudia works to improve how legal non profits and courts provide services to low income communities and how those without lawyers obtain the remedies they need from various forums. She joined Pro Bono Net in 2008 to deliver online forms as a cornerstone piece in the access to justice continuum. Prior to that at Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland she started the Legal Advice Line.
Chip Phillips is the IT Manager at Columbia Legal Services. Chip has been working in IT for over 20 years as a network architect and systems engineer and has a broad background in telecommunications and internet services. Chip is a proud graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH where she first became involved in social justice issues as an activist for the LGBTQ community.
Brian Rowe is a lawyer & techie at Northwest Justice Project, managing the National Technology Assistance Project and teaching at the University of Washington and Seattle University. Brian lectures on Privacy Law, Cyborg Rights, Ethics, Copyright and Information Policy. Find him online at Twitter, Instagram and Youtube @sarterus.
Judge Michael J. Trickey has been on the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 1 since May 1, 2014. He is currently the Acting Chief Judge for Division 1. He served on the King County Superior Court from 1996-2014.
He was the Presiding Judge of King County Superior Court 2006-2007. He was the President Judge of the statewide Superior Court Judges’ Association for 2005-2006.
Judge Trickey graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 1979. He received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley and at Claremont McKenna College. He started his legal career as a public defender and was in private practice for fourteen years before becoming a judge.
