Is the Future of Civil Justice Online? Modria Thinks So.

As a young college graduate, Colin Rule might have been mistaken for just another pie-in-the-sky idealist: At Haverford College, Rule majored in “peace studies,” and after graduating, he spent two years volunteering with the Peace Corps in Eritrea.

But as the internet was booming in the mid-1990s, Rule, who had always been interested in technology, was looking for opportunities. He soon saw a way to marry his twin passions: In 1999, Rule got a master’s degree in conflict resolution and technology from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and in 2000 he founded OnlineResolution.com, one of the first companies in the country doing ...