Orrick to Host Inaugural Global Legal Hackathon Event

Orrick is proud to be a founding member of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium and to serve as a host for the inaugural Global Legal Hackathon in San Francisco.  This community-building event will tackle service delivery and pain points in the delivery of legal services, utilizing blockchain and other technology solutions, with the goal of reinventing and streamlining legal processes. 

The Hackathon kicks off in 40+ cities worldwide on February 23 at 5 PM Pacific Time.  The San Francisco event is being co-hosted by Lex Machina.

The inaugural Global Legal Hackathon is positioned to be the largest event of its kind. Hosts include major multinational corporations, world-famous universities, innovative non-profit associations, and think tanks. The event engages law schools, law firms and in-house departments, legal technology companies, governments, and service providers to the legal industry globally. The best thinkers, doers and practitioners in law will come together to support a unified vision:  rapid development of solutions to improve the legal industry, world-wide.

Participants from all backgrounds and industries are welcome to join the Global Legal Hackathon, including law firm partner and associates, in-house counsel, IT professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and tech innovators both inside and outside of the legal industries.

To learn more and to register for the event, please click on the links below.