Wow – our biggest and best online courts hackathon yet!!

What an AWESOME 24 hours of fun, coding, building, hustling, competing, eating pizza, hanging out and high fives. A personal career high for Jimmy Vestbirk was a high five with the Lord Chief Justice. The hackathon embodied everything that is amazing about the Legal Geek community. We had a crazy attendee rate of 210 out of […]

Live feed our Online Courts Hackathon

This weekend we are planning a huge hackathon which had over 400 applicants from around the world, including teams from Russia and Australia. Wow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXiAPxsUDOQ In the spirit of collaboration we are providing a live feed of the hackathon available for those who can not make it: For more information see: www.onlinecourtshackathon.com Love Legal Tech? Check […]

Final leg of the Legal Geek RoadTrip

After awesome events in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and Paris we got up at 4am to drive back to London and get parked on the pavement in Canary Wharf outside Thomson Reuters offices. We heard from: Lucinda Case, Managing Director Thomson Reuters Legal UKI Jimmy Vestbirk, Legal Geek Julien Lasala, Nextlaw Labs/Dentons Garth Watson, Libryo See all the photos on Facebook: You […]

Paris Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After awesome events in Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels we arrived with high expectations in Paris on our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. Stay up to date with our event on our dedicated Road Trip page. For our Paris event we collaborated with Open Law and Village de LegalTech to organise a startup pitching event: We met and […]

Brussels Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After awesome events in Amsterdam and Berlin to open our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. Stay up to date with our event on our dedicated Road Trip page. For our Brussels event we collaborated with Legal Tech Belgium to organise a startup pitching event: We met and interviewed in Betty: @tprlegal @LawboxBe @OnSolAtt lex.be See […]

Dentons and Nextlaw labs: what’s next?

Europe is a hotbed for legal innovation, which is why we set out on our road trip to get the latest on how startups are changing this industry for the better. Berlin is one of the key centres for LawTech in Europe, and it’s also where you’ll find some of the key minds behind Nextlaw […]

Berlin Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After an awesome event in Amsterdam to open our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. For Berlin we collaborated with the ELTA Conference to organise an after party and interview people outside the venue in Betty. Jimmy also chaired a 15 person fireside chat on LawTech with meetups around the world. We met and interviewed in […]

Amsterdam Leg of Legal Geek Tour complete

What an amazing start to the Legal Geek Road Trip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. We met and interviewed 10 startups in The Hague and Amsterdam and jointly hosted a startup drinks in WeWork with Dutch Legal Tech with over 40 amazing guests. Congratulations to all the winning startups who won free startup travel tickets […]

Legal Geek hits the road

If you’ve been following the Legal Geek story since we got started, then you’ll notice that our Startup Map has become an authority for LawTech in the UK. But we know we’ve only scratched the surface of all the cool ways that lawtech startups can change the legal industry for the better – not just […]

What’s the point of hackathons anyway?

When lawyers want to change something they tend to put a big, hierarchical team together. A partner or two to take the big decisions and all the credit; associates to run things day to day; assistants and paralegals to do the actual work; maybe a project or business manager to keep things moving. So while […]