2025 LWOW Sprint Winning Teams + Projects of Worth
WINNER (GOLD and AUDIENCE WINNER):
PROPER-TEA
(SPONSORED BY Ballard Spahr)
Real Estate at Stake: How can we modernize real property recording in the United States so that it is accessible, streamlined, and secure?
For U.S. homebuyers, Proper-Tea is a property intelligence platform that scours data points from official databases and online sources to deliver a contextualized, easy-to-understand report on any home. It combines smart analytics with the perspective of someone who’s lived in the home and neighborhood for years—offering insights that go beyond the MLS listings, like the neighbor who renovates endlessly or the street that floods every spring. From ownership history to environmental risks and unspoken quirks, Proper-Tea gives homebuyers the real tea—saving time, money, and surprises. Proper-Tea: We Give You the Real Tea... On Property!
Team Members: Steve Mehr (Ballard Spahr), Mari Cruz Tabaoda (Lexington Consultants), Ian Norris (Fortun), Pepo Dobrev (iManage), Nigel Adams (University of Buckingham), Brooke Penny (Deakin Law School), Sagar Subramanian (Bucerius Law), Geremy Miller (University of Buckingham), Beatriz Peeters (IE Law).
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WINNER (SILVER):
APERTIA
(SPONSORED BY White & Case)
Kill Bill: How can we promote efficiency and innovation in law firms dominated by billable hours?
For law firm lawyers doing transactional work (like M&A and corporate finance), Apertia is a tech-assistant embedded into the firm’s existing matter management system that recommends the most effective legal tech solutions to use. Apertia analyzes intake data at matter opening, then provides a recommendation to the partners along with proof of concept—providing examples of successful use, projected cost and time savings, user feedback, and client consent templates. Once approved, it notifies the junior lawyers and legal tech team so that all the lawyers involved can more confidently implement tech at the beginning of a transaction. Apertia helps optimize lawyer capacity, reduce write-offs, and turn their legal tech from an underused resource into measurable value. Apertia: Because Tech Fatigue isn’t Billable.
Team Members: Holly Cook (White & Case), Jess Bates (White & Case), Kendra Voogdt (White & Case), Nivetha Yoganathan (White & Case), Phyllis Dealy (ReInvent the World), Neil Campbell (NatWest), Natalia McLaren (University of Bath), Anna Singh (MiamiLaw), Rory Janes (University of Buckingham).
Final presentation here available with password only.
WINNER (BRONZE):
HSB"C"
(SPONSORED BY HSBC)
Transforming External Advice into Internal Advantage: How can HSBC’s in-house legal team collect, organize, and safely utilize external legal advice received across multiple practice areas, customer segments, and product categories—regardless of the format (email, advice notes, file notes, phone notes)—to minimize redundancy, and to ensure correct usage and consistency?
For HSBC’s 1,200+ in-house lawyers, HSB"C" is a centralized legal knowledge platform that shares past external legal advice received by the bank so that inhouse lawyers can deliver faster, more consistent solutions to the bank's business challenges. “C” works by uploading legal advice from law firms into a secure, searchable database, confirming relevance with HSBC counsel, and indexing both the firm’s advice and the internal response. Lawyers can then instantly search for prior work, avoiding duplicate requests of external advice and costly rework, and accelerating turnaround. By leveraging HSBC’s institutional legal memory, “C” turns sunk costs into strategic assets. HSB"C": Your Legal Knowledge, Banked.
Team Members: George Edward Malster (HSBC), Joe O'Callaghan (HSBC), Alex Titmus (HSBC), Maurus Schreyvogel (EY), Rachel Coleman (Pinsent Masons), Helena Costa (Católica Global School of Law), Kylie Prieto (MiamiLaw), Rory Mayes (University of Buckingham), Victoria Guevara (Austral University).
Final presentation here available with password only.
AUDIENCE WINNER (PART 1):
KNOW-KIA
(SPONSORED BY DENTONS & NOKIA)
Making Sustainability Sustainable: How can Nokia disseminate complex sustainability regulations that impact multiple business areas in a way that is centralized and efficient and that promotes the understanding of—and compliance—with the relevant regulatory provisions for each business area?
For Nokia's global legal and compliance teams, Know-KIA is an AI-powered tool that streamlines ESG compliance by instantly connecting the right people across teams, regions, and product lines. Know-KIA replaces ad hoc, time-consuming outreach with self-learning recommendations based on user input, project tagging, and AI-enhanced profiles. By reducing delays and duplication and ensuring the right people are involved at the right time, it lowers compliance risk, saves time, and reinforces Nokia’s reputation as an ethical leader. KNOW-KIA: Connect & Comply.
Team Members: Carin Holmes (Nokia), Diane Doumit (Nokia), Tommi Kolehmainen (Nokia), Elouisa Crichton (Dentons), James Batham (Dentons), Mark Cruickshank (NatWest), Dina Mullings (Dentons), Liza Kipiani (Bucerius Law), Avighna Ramdoo (ISIT), Adele Dang (University of Sydney Law School).
Final presentation here available with password only.