“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison
Welcome to LexVirtua! I’m Jami, and this is the corner of law, technology, and business. It’s pretty cool here.
I was in a lunch conversation with an arbitrator colleague who asked me about my experience as a high-tech mediator and arbitrator, and given the news these days, the conversation naturally drifted towards the metaverse and AI. They asked me to explain it, but as I would to someone who was not terribly technical, as they reminded me, “most lawyers aren’t.”
As I explained to them what cryptocurrency was, the difference between mixed and augmented reality, and other new technology concepts, I realized that there aren’t really too many places where this is adequately explained, in the context of legal concerns, and I started to create ideas as to how this might be something useful for me and for the new industry that I find myself in. My love of problem solving and figuring out how disparate areas can align led me here, writing a blog and starting a conversation about how law, ethics and regulation can catch up and integrate with the fastest developing tech concepts in the world, ensuring inclusion, and that those who aren’t as privileged can catch up and have educated advocates pushing that along.
I started LexVirtua as a place where we can start these conversations, learn, and evolve this dynamic and rapidly evolving area– and be a safe space where tech and legal minds can nerd out happily and create new approaches to these exciting new opportunities.
Happy nerding!
Jamian L. Smith