Under the onus of climate change, the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy, and the strain of a ballooning population on a city with century old infrastructure, it is starkly apparent that the quality of life in New York City will depend on progressive sustainability planning and management, none of which would be possible without adequate fostering of eco-tech solutions. Eco-tech … Read More
First Legal Hackers India Meeting Tackles Net Neutrality Debate
Legal Hackers India is off to a strong start! Here’s a note from organizer Kanan Dhru: Legal Hackers India had its first meet-up in Delhi on 25th April 2015 from 5 pm to 6.30 pm at Kunzum Travel Cafe, Hauz Khas Village. This maiden informal LHI meet-up brought together a group of practicing lawyers, techies, economists, law students, engineering students, and … 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
Let’s Talk PACER
DC and NY are gearing up for back-to-back talks on PACER, the federal courts’ online court records system. Carl Malamud is hitting the road, and is speaking at both events, to discuss, among other things, a full day of PACER protest to take place on May 1, 2015, in honor of Aaron Swartz. If you’re interested in participating in Carl’s campaign, check … Read More
NY Video: Open Patent Licensing for Fun and Profit
A traditional patent license involves a payment for permission to use a new technology. But a series of new licensing models are bringing the power of open innovation into the patent arena. Can these new licenses help improve the patent system or win the patent wars? Will they incentivize R&D and attract top engineering talent? Will they stand up in … Read More
NY Video: 3D Printing in a 2D Legal Landscape
3D printing is most certainly the next major disruption in distribution since Napster. Yet unlike file-sharing, 3D printing takes the digital into the physical realm, giving it the potential to challenge nearly every imaginable industry on Earth. With daily stories of printed spaceship parts and custom bikinis beside headlines like “3D printed organs for all”, can the legal community hope … Read More
Stockholm Talks Drones
Legal Hackers’ first EU chapter is getting some great publicity after their most recent event on civilian drones. The DC Chapter did a Drone BBQ last summer, so this is a theme Legal Hackers worldwide are wrestling with. Here’s a note from Stockholm’s organizer, Robert Gullander: Stockholm Legal Hackers organized an event on Jan 27 focusing on the opportunities of … Read More
DC: Le Hackies a Stunning Show of Civic Tech
Last week, DC Legal Hackers put on the organization’s first awards show to recognize people and projects that have made important contributions to Legal Hackers worldwide. The event was well-attended, great music was playing, and tacos were deeeeee-licious. Not to mention we got to geek out to all of the awesome work DC’s members put in this year. As you may be … Read More