Lawyers, Developers Team Up in Hackathon to Revamp Legal Industry
The winning team of a “Global Legal Hackathon” recently hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe aims to provide a platform to fund and expedite class action suits using blockchain technology.
February 27, 2018 at 04:38 PM
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The winning team of the recent “Global Legal Hackathon” hosted by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco seeks to provide a platform to fund and expedite class action suits using blockchain technology.
The nine-member group, consisting of an Orrick lawyer, two law students and six engineers and developers, came together on Feb. 23 at Orrick's San Francisco office to participate in a worldwide hackathon designed to create concepts and technical solutions to address justice and law practice issues.
“It is not that the legal industry is reluctant to adopt the technologies, it's just the design problems the legal industry faces are much harder,” said Mohamed Shakir, who brought with him a team of five engineers and designers from consulting firm Keystone Strategy LLC. Shakir is a technical engagement manager and head of Keystone Labs.
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