My name is Rebekah Hall and I am a 3L at Alexander Blewett III School of Law, and a fellow for the ATJ Tech Fellowship. Under About you can find out more about my background and my weird hobbies.

So why am I starting this blog? Part of the reason is because this blog is a requirement for fellows in the ATJ Tech Fellowship, and fellows need to do a few blog challenges. I’ll tag those challenge posts. The other reason I’m starting this blog, though, is to explore the newly developing world of legal tech. This is going to be a platform for me to discuss what legal tech is, why we need it, and some of the amazing examples of it out there.  The field of legal tech is fascinating, because it combines all different types of law under one umbrella, as well as providing a new way to realize access to justice.

The name “Beta Phase” comes from the world of software.  The beta version of a piece of software is when the software is released before it’s finished, to let users play around with it and to let developers to find bugs they wouldn’t have even thought to look for. This is the phase that legal tech in general is in. We’re nowhere near a finished product, and we have a lot to learn about what’s possible with it!

Hopefully you enjoy what you read here and stick around for more!