Lawyers Who Code: Youri Cousineau

Youri Cousineau works as legal counsel in a large Canadian financial group, covering investment products and securities regulation. He is also the founder of Ako Technologies, a startup building blockchain applications for banks to legally issue financial products via blockchain. What kick-started your interest in coding? I was inspired by my brother, who’s a professional developer, and motivated by […]

Lawyers Who Code: The Hon. Mr Justice Birss

Legal Geek is compiling a ‘hack-book’ of lawyers and legaltechies who code. If you code, or are learning to code, we would love to include you in our ‘hack-book’. Drop us a line via [email protected] [yes it is .co]. The Hon. Mr Justice Birss has the job title of Judge of the Patents Court and Supervising Judge […]

Lawyers Who Code: Gordon Cassie – Profile

Gordon Cassie is the CTO at Toronto-based Closing Folders, a platform that facilitates collaboration on corporate and commercial legal transactions. He has been coding for approximately a decade. What kick-started your interest in coding? “As a kid I was always interested in computers. During high school I learned a little bit about web development and […]

Lawyers Who Code: Richard Burnham – Profile

Richard Burnham is a solicitor at Ronald Fletcher Baker and has recently launched LegalTech project Eallium CMS. Eallium is a case management system designed to act as a “firm in a box” that helps smaller firms increase their efficiency. What kick-started your interest in coding? It really took off when I started developing video games […]

Lawyers Who Code: Alistair Wye – Profile

Alistair Wye is the global legal A.I. subject matter expert at iManage and the Head of Presales at RAVN Systems, which was acquired by iManage in 2017. Prior to joining RAVN, Alistair worked as a banking lawyer specialising in leveraged finance. What kickstarted your interest in coding? It all began with a beer! A computer scientist friend […]

Lawyers Who Code: Tara Waters – Profile

Tara Waters is a Partner in the Corporate Transactions practice group at Ashurst LLP. She is also a mentor for the Barclays Techstars FinTech Accelerator programme. Prior to joining Ashurst, she worked for Simmons & Simmons and Allen & Overy. For how long have you been able to code? Technically, I first learned to code […]

Lawyers Who Code: Stuart Whittle – Profile

Legal Geek is compiling a ‘hack-book’ of lawyers and legaltechies who code. If you code, or are learning to code, we would love to include you in our ‘hack-book’. Drop us a line via [email protected] [yes it is .co]. Stuart Whittle is Business Services and Innovation Director and equity partner at Weightmans LLP. He is a […]

Lawyers Who Code: The LegalTech-preneur

Legal Geek is compiling a ‘hack-book’ of lawyers and legaltechies who code. If you code, or are learning to code, we would love to include you in our ‘hack-book’. Drop us a line via [email protected] [yes it is .co]. Taron Khajotia is the founder of Jus Eq (juseq.com), an early-stage mobile-optimised practise management suite for lawyers. He […]

Lawyers Who Code: Andrew Darnton – Profile

Legal Geek is compiling a ‘hack-book’ of lawyers and legaltechies who code. If you code, or are learning to code, we would love to include you in our ‘hack-book’. Drop us a line via [email protected] [yes it is .co]. Andrew Darnton is a former commercial real estate lawyer, who now works at legal engineering business SYKE […]

Lawyers Who Code: The Coder-turned-Barrister

Legal Geek is compiling a ‘hack-book’ of lawyers and legaltechies who code. If you code, or are learning to code, we would love to include you in our ‘hack-book’. Drop us a line via [email protected] [yes it is .co]. Simon Gittins is a former coder who became barrister at 27. He later moved into LegalTech […]