Since we began in 2012, Legal Hackers has been guided by a singular mission: creating a free, open, and collaborative platform to explore and solve pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Today, as the largest grassroots legal innovation movement in the world, Legal Hackers is excited to partner with LexBlog to create a virtual home for each of our … Read More
Celebrating Five Years of Legal Hacking
2017 marks five years since a handful of recently graduated law students in New York City started a Meetup group called “Legal Hackers” that sought to bring lawyers, technologists, and policy makers together to discuss issues at the intersection of law and technology. Since then, the movement grew quickly — from a second chapter in Washington, D.C. started by original … Read More
Legal Hackers Congress: Part 3
We opened this morning with Jameson leading an impromptu session on the shared goals of all Legal Hackers, with the group brainstorming a list of descriptors to guide our remaining discussions. John E. Grant then built on that activity with an interactive presentation on project management and efficient collaboration skills for lawyers, introducing discussion processes that our group would use … Read More
Legal Hackers Congress: Part 2
The afternoon session began by featuring insights from two of the largest Legal Hackers chapters: New York and DC. First, we heard from Meetup GC and LH advisory board member David Pashman alongside NYLH organizers Warren Allen and Tariq Badat, who shared their perspectives as tech-enabled in-house counsel retaining outside firms. Next, the DC crew took the floor as Rebecca Williams recapped … Read More
Legal Hackers Congress
Legal industry innovators from around the world are converging in Chicago this weekend for the first-ever Legal Hackers Congress! With representatives here from Chicago, Detroit, New York, DC, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Nashville, North Carolina, Miami, and even Stockholm, Sweden, we could not be more excited to celebrate the growth of our community. Kicking things off last night, Jonathan Pasky moderated … Read More
Bogota Legal Hackers Is Alive!
We are proud to announce the first South American chapter of Legal Hackers. Daniel Santiago Acevedo has spearheaded the Bogota, Colombia chapter, and we are pumped to hear about their first event Thursday March 12. Until then, buena suerte, Bogota!
Legal Hackers Korea!
Sean Hayes has formed the first Asian chapter of Legal Hackers in Korea. Message from Sean: I am excited to announce that Legal Hackers is, now, in Korea. I will organize the first couple of meetings – we are, presently, discussing topics and a good location for the first meeting. If you are interesting in joining (no fees), please drop … Read More
Boston Globe Article
Check out this awesome article about Bill Palin, his submission to Code the Deal, and the upcoming Boston chapter of Legal Hackers. Young lawyers seek to shake up legal profession with mobile apps–Boston Globe
HP IDOL OnDemand Now a Sustaining Partner of Legal Hackers
Legal Hackers is proud to announce a new sustaining partnership with HP IDOL OnDemand (part of HP Big Data). With the assistance of HP IDOL OnDemand, Legal Hackers hopes to continue the international growth of its now several-thousand-members organization. Legal Hackers and HP IDOL OnDemand recently teamed up on Code the Deal, a three-day hackathon in September of 2014 that challenged participants … Read More
Legal Hackers Summit?
Some people have expressed an interest in holding a small convention of legal tech, innovation and hacking groups around the world. Let us know if you would be interested in attending something like this, what you’d like to see when you get there, and (perhaps most important) how much you’d pay to get yourself there (consider lodging, travel, and other … Read More