Congratulations to Legal Hackers Panels @ SXSW 2015

Several Legal Hackers members, friends, and collaborators have been accepted to present on panels at South by Southwest 2015!  We hope to see you all there in March! Nicole Bradick & Noah Waisberg – Will Your Next Lawyer Be a Machine? Jameson Dempsey, Amy Wan, Dan Lear & Phil Weiss – Legal Hackers: A Global Movement to Reform the Law … Read More

Preserving and Promoting the Mission of Legal Hackers

Legal Hackers, We are writing today to announce two measures that we hope will strengthen our community.  It’s hard to believe we’ve been around for over 2.5 years now.  We have produced numerous panels, demo nights, and hackathons, expanded into several cities in the US and EU, and are continuing to grow.  Legal Hackers has graduated from a meetup to … Read More

Congrats to our Code the Deal Participants & Winners

We had a great time at the event, and we look forward to the next one! A special congratulations to our winners: First Place – Obsidian Redline Second Place – SKerator Third Place – DocVault A few pics below.  More here.      

Welcome to Stockholm Legal Hackers!

We are pleased to announce our newest chapter, Stockholm Legal Hackers. Stockholm Legal Hackers is managed by: Robert Gullander, Founder & Director Magnus Steen, Director Egil Martinsson, Assistant Organizer

New York Innovators Challenge Attorneys And Developers To “Code The Deal”

NEW YORK: A community of technologists and legal professionals are competing in what appears to be the first hackathon that will challenge contestants to build technology that solves common problems in transactional legal practice. The hackathon, named “Code the Deal,” is hosted by New York Legal Hackers and Nixon Peabody, and sponsored by HP, Shake, DiligenceEngine, and Clio. Code the … Read More

Welcome, LA!

We are pleased to announce that Legal Hackers is successfully expanding its reach across the globe.  Los Angeles now officially houses an amazing and active new Legal Hackers chapter.  We are so excited to see them thrive! Legal Hackers LA is organized and coordinated by Amy Wan and Aria Safar.  You can also Be on the lookout for more new … Read More

NY Legal Hackers Tackle Net Neutrality in a Non-Neutral Net

The FCC recently received over 1.1 million public comments from citizens, businesses, and community organizations on the Commission’s response to recent court rulings that severely limited its authority to regulate the internet as an “information service” under Title I of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.  It was under Title I that the FCC had previously enforced net neutrality–or the principle that … Read More