2021 Projects of Worth
LWOW Sprint X Inc.
Better Boss
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Topic Challenge: Managing the Hide & Seek of a Virtual World: How can lawyers find opportunities to be better managers online?
Your Efforts Appreciated: Better Boss is a tool that helps law firm partners be better managers in a virtual and non-virtual world, by ensuring the types of rewards and interaction they provide to their associates are organic, personal, impactful and motivating.
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DeStigo
Sponsored by MOVELAW
Topic Challenge: Mental Floss: How can we destigmatize mental health issues in the legal profession?
Destigmatising Mental Health Issues in the Legal Workplace: DeStigo is a mobile app which creates awareness of lawyers’ cognitive bias against mental issues via an assessment quiz, which when taken, contributes to the understanding that stigmatisation of mental health exists.
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Envisage
Sponsored by iManage
Topic Challenge: Law by Design: How might digital channels and design thinking be leveraged to improve access to existing legal advice for the people who need it the most?
Information.Integration.Immigration: Envisage is a platform that provides individualized digital playbooks to help international students and graduates manage the entire visa application process by generating personalized checklists, estimated timelines, an in-app community and bespoke consultation.
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EthiQuery
Sponsored by HSBC
Topic Challenge: "Follow Your Conscience": How can in-house legal teams ensure the ethical use of AI and Big Data?
Ethics in Design: EthiQuery is a software solution that helps businesses integrate, train, and track ethical analysis at the process level throughout their AI development cycle, from conceptualization through commercialization.
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EVA
Sponsored by LATAM
Topic Challenge: Personal Protection: How can the legal profession protect against domestic violence and abuse during the pandemic?
Recognise the Signs: EVA is an online questionnaire tool to educate young women on the early signs of domestic abuse, prior to any violence, by exposing and validating the early signs of abuse, and encouraging action to seek help and professional support.
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Legalcy
Sponsored by Paul Hastings
Topic Challenge: Multidisciplinary Approach that Matters: How can law firms capture and share information about law firm matters with their internal multidisciplinary professional service providers so that they can add value that matters?
Leveraging the Legacy of Legal: Legalcy is a knowledge management platform that helps law firms capture, retain, access, and share complete, accurate and detailed on-going matter information to help the law firms win more RFPs and new business.
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Legal Spot
Sponsored by Spotify
Topic Challenge: Legal Eye in the Sky: How can Legal foresee new opportunities to drive revenue for Spotify?
Ideas Faster to Market: Legal Spot is a 3-step online questionnaire which evaluates the nature of legal advice by collecting a simple set of metadata through online forms to determine how the inquiry is categorized.
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Lighthouse
Sponsored by Spotify
Topic Challenge: A Roadmap to Roads Less Travelled: How can Legal leverage learnings to operationalize, measure, and enhance efficient expansion into new geographical markets?
Bringing Your Data to the Light: Lighthouse is a search engine extension for Spotify’s legal teams, which synthesises data by extracting contract information housed in Docusign CLM to make contract discovery faster and more simple.
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Litigaide
Topic Challenge: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How might litigation funding help severely injured people get the home health care they need without having to give up the farm?
The Care You Need…Care Free: Litigaide is a socially-driven home healthcare funding company which helps injured people find, receive, and pay for the in-home medical assistance they need whilst their cases are being litigated.
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Loop-On
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Topic Challenge: Breakfast of Champions: How might clients and law firms collaborate around their organization's common purpose so that people are energized and businesses thrive?
Loop-On: an add-on tool that can be integrated with a firm's existing human resources and client management software to manage client relationships, communications, and employee expectations to bridge the gaps between women, firms and clients, when women go on maternity leave.
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MariTime Track
Sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland
Topic Challenge: Steering Clear of the Iceberg in Global Marine/Energy Deal-making: How can the global business community jointly overcome the costly, tumultuous, and often deal-breaking "battle of the forms" when negotiating cybersecurity and privacy contract provisions in cross-border contracting?
Contracting RelationSHIPS: MariTime Track is a legal management tool designed to monitor and record the progress of maritime supply contract negotiation; reminding parties of the most neglected parts of the dealmaking process, with all steps immutably recorded by private blockchain.
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Motivise
Sponsored by iManage
Topic Challenge: Sharing is Caring: How might we establish a culture of knowledge sharing among legal professionals that mirror different generations' expectations of collaboration and technology?
It's Time for Your Firm to Motivise: Motivise is a technology solution designed to motivate lawyers within law firms to share structured data and implicit know-how through gamification.
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RQR
Sponsored by HSBC
Topic Challenge: Knock Knock, Who's There?: How can in-house legal departments more efficiently manage the front door to legal so that the right work is triaged in the right way?
Recurring Question Reply: RQR is an AI-enabled chatbot for retail bank employees that finds answers to routine questions that retail customers have, so that clients can get answers faster and lawyers can spend their time on work that adds value to their institutions.
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Shine
Sponsored by White & Case
Topic Challenge: Future Proofing: How might law firm leaders better leverage and maximize the diversity of our professionals to revolutionize our business?
Diversity by Design: a work allocation tool that prevents unconscious bias in work allocation by matching skills, experience, and interests of associates to client matters based on client and firm expertise and diversity goals
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T-COG
Sponsored by UnitedLex
Topic Challenge: Practicing What We Preach: How can Legal ensure that the right digital transformation tools are selected, adopted, assessed, and integrated in a way that drives value?
Translating Law into Technology: T-COG is an online go-between platform for lawyers and IT to help translate legal needs into the right tech, by letting users plan, perform and perfect the selection, adaptation and implementation of a new digital tech tool within in-house legal departments.
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Valoro
Sponsored by White & Case
Topic Challenge: Measuring for Success: How can law firms collaborate with clients to identify and maximize the value of their relationships with external legal and professional service advisors?
A Path to Value: Valoro is an unique software platform for law firms that helps keep track of the delivery of value-added services promised by law firms during the RFP process, and ensures law firms always keep and deliver on the promises made to clients.
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2020 Projects of Worth
LWOW Xed
In 2020 LWOW Xed, all topics were sponsored by Jim Ferraro of the Ferraro Law Firm
CogniSwift
Topic Challenge: Accessing Accessibility in the Innovation in Law: How can we make the law marketplace (including communities of change agents) more inclusive and more accessible to people with disabilities?
Healthcare Funding Assessments made simple. Are you a caregiver seeking government funding for your loved one with dementia and feeling overwhelmed? CogniSwift is a web based tool that simplifies an otherwise expensive, complicated process so that you can care for all of your loved ones and regain balance in your life.
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Co-op Esports Foundation
Topic Challenge: Unpriming the E-Sports Pipeline: How can we ensure that e-sports are more inclusive and enable more diverse players?
Safe space. Safe place. Safe gaming. For female esports players who dream of becoming professional gamers, the Co-op Esports Foundation creates and maintains a safe-space to pursue their dreams. By devising a toolbox of resources which promote diversity and inclusion in esports, we offer support to players who experience gender hostility and other forms of harassment. The Co-op Esports Foundation will solve the industry’s gender pipeline problem and shape the future of the industry through establishing best practice techniques.
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EcoEsquire
Topic Challenge: Making Carbon Neutrality a Reality: How can a law firm develop processes to reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact?
Saving the planet, one piece of paper at a time. EcoeEquire is a freemium tool designed for senior lawyers to help them track and offset their printing and paper usage. The tool helps lawyers approximate their paper usage and translates their environmental impact into metrics they can actually understand. They can then use EcoEsquire to offset their emissions in whatever way speaks to them the most.
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ElderProtech
Topic Challenge: Seniors and Scams: How can machine learning or other technology be used to protect the elderly in the age of the machine?
Helping our elders to save their savings. Concerned that the senior citizens you know and love are being scammed out of their life savings by imposters? ElderProtech is a fintech startup specializing in safeguarding senior citizens’ life savings using machine learning to interface with wire transfer transactions at banks. By automatically detecting scams, alerting banks and seniors of suspicious transaction details, and preventing funds from leaving the seniors' accounts, ElderProtech works to help you to "save their savings!"
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FaseIt
Topic Challenge: Innocent but Forever Guilty on Google: How can we help people who were charged with a crime and subsequently cleared or acquitted combat Google search results that continue to depict them as criminals?
Unmasking the threat of facial recognition technology. FaseIt is a platform to educate and empower those vulnerable to the inaccurate application of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). FRT attempts to identify or verify a person from a digital image or a video frame by comparing selected facial features from a set of images within a data base. The current methods used show a bias in the technology slated against people of color. We are committed to informing and empowering those affected through education, referrals to legal resources, and our own diverse data set.
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Greenable
Topic Challenge: Making Carbon Neutrality a Reality: How can a law firm develop processes to reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact?
Lawyers at the intersection of sustainability and profitability. What if we told you that sustainability and profitability could both be at the forefront of your business model? Greenable is a tool that helps law firms reduce their carbon emissions by measuring the carbon output of lawyers and their teams, engaging them to hit reduced carbon targets, and rewarding those teams that meet their targets with the ability to work on socially beneficial projects.
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HonestFunds
Topic Challenge: Duties to Donors: How can law-related non-profits track and share their use of donated funds to show donors’ tangible impact without stifling the nonprofits’ ability to fund operations?
Transparent Donations Made Simple. HonestFunds is a tool that allows the donor to choose the specific allocation of their donated funds. It also helps keep track of those funds so that the donor can know the real impact of the donation, which allows donors to stay engaged with the donation and encourages future donations! Nonprofits now have a way to display their projects and expenses in a transparent and easy manner.
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Just Donate
Topic Challenge: Duties to Donors: How can law-related non-profits track and share their use of donated funds to show donors’ tangible impact without stifling the nonprofits’ ability to fund operations?
Making a world of difference. Just Donate provides a simple, social and powerful platform for legal non-profits to present their impact and finances. This allows legal non-profits to access more donations from private individuals while giving donors the transparency they deserve. Just Donate is making a world of difference to those who want to make a difference in the world.
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LEAP
Topic Challenge: Accessing Accessibility in the Innovation in Law: How can we make the law marketplace (including communities of change agents) more inclusive and more accessible to people with disabilities?
The intelligent inclusion platform. Helping visually impaired law students LEAP into their future legal career! LEAP is an intelligent inclusion web based platform that allows leverages expert research, data driven market insights and user feedback to increase transparency and accessibility to the legal marketplace. By engaging with LEAP, legal organizations of all types can increase the value and output of their Diversity and Inclusion programs, and assists law students with career development removing the clutter between the classroom and opportunity.
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Oraculi
Topic Challenge: Lessons Learned or Lessons Lost for Law School Graduates: How do we design effective, durable, and shared methods for recent law school graduates to learn from each other’s experiences, apply those lessons today and tomorrow, and not recreate the wheel?
Empowering your future. Imagine an app that matched you with a mentor to guide you, peers with similar interests to motivate you, and that provided you with tools to enhance your resume and prepare for interviews, all with the objective of helping you plan your future. You don’t have to wish or imagine anymore, join us in the journey to empower your future with Oraculi.
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OurSpace
Topic Challenge: Lonely Isle: How can we expand legal literacy for isolated communities within populated nations, such as the LGBTQ+ community?
Your Education. Your Choice. OurSpace provides transgender youth and their parents with a quick and easy method of finding trans-friendly schools. OurSpace positions itself as a space for both discussion and reviews, and connects its users with the educational professionals and services they may need.
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Project Innocent
Topic Challenge: Innocent but Forever Guilty on Google: How can we help people who were charged with a crime and subsequently cleared or acquitted combat Google search results that continue to depict them as criminals?
Let Innocent People APPEAR Innocent again! Is a previous criminal charge or mugshot causing you to have an online presence that is inhibiting you from possible employment and causing social embarrassment? Do you think it’s unfair that inaccurate information of your arrest shows up on google search and there is no cheap and fast fix for this? At Innocent we empower you with tools to repair and control your internet reputation – because your innocence is your truth!
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PUBLICO
Topic Challenge: Putting the Pro into ProBono: How can entities better prepare attorneys for ProBono assignments?
We handle the pro bono, so you can help the public. Publico reduces the time spent finding the perfect pro bono opportunities. We list the pro bono cases in your area, and using key data points we break these down by the estimated time required, the skills necessary, and the extent of participation that you intend to commit. We connect pro bono clinics with lawyers who are looking to engage with pro bono but are worried about the time commitment.
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Scele
Topic Challenge: Lessons Learned or Lessons Lost for Law School Graduates: How do we design effective, durable, and shared methods for recent law school graduates to learn from each other’s experiences, apply those lessons today and tomorrow, and not recreate the wheel?
The skills you didn’t know you needed. Scele is a web and app based learning platform for law students searching for their first ‘Big Law’ job. Scele will help law students to raise their EQ and build essential soft skills missing in traditional legal education, such as communication and interpersonal skills. This streamlined and easy to use app keeps an overwhelming task easy so students can focus on becoming more confident and prepared before entering into a very competitive market.
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Theria
Topic Challenge: Lonely Isle: How can we expand legal literacy for isolated communities within populated nations, such as the LGBTQ+ community?
Your freedom is your right. Theria provides an essential solution for domestic violence victims living in areas where their abuser may preclude them from adequate legal assistance, through the “conflicting out” method. Victims are often declined requests to get legal help regarding domestic violence, frustrating for both the victim and law firm or legal clinic/community center. Theria helps to match victims and legal assistance providers in quick and discrete manner, all within 24 hours!
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United Pro Bono
Topic Challenge: Putting the Pro into ProBono: How can entities better prepare attorneys for ProBono assignments?
Precision Pro Bono Pairing. United Pro Bono is a global service platform for small law firms of 10-25 lawyers that makes pro bono work for lawyers more easily accessible and valuable by providing time estimates, info on level of expertise required, global networks, and skills training. United Pro Bono pairs lawyers and pro bono clients streamlined with the infrastructure and resources of a ‘big firm’. United Pro Bono removes the administrative obstacles that often keep lawyers at smaller firms from taking on fulfilling and meaningful pro bono work!
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2019 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Sponsored by LATAM
Topic Challenge: Fasten Your Seatbelt: How can airlines protect consumer data from cyberattacks and other data security breaches?
Taking cybersecurity to new heights. AirWareness is an educational initiative to increase the cyber resilience of passengers. With curated videos and cybersecurity tools, AirWareness protects passengers against data breaches in the air.
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Sponsored by LegalZoom
Topic Challenge: Far is a Figure of Speech: How can we provide broader, more efficient access to legal services in rural communities?
Record. Report. Restore. Constelação is an app that allows indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest to record human rights and land rights violations and report them to international aid organizations in order to restore their rights.
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Sponsored by Elevate Services
Topic Challenge: Rise of the Machines: How can the increasing use of drones be effectively regulated and how might technology be used to enforce regulation?
Draw, Fly, Share. Draw is a user-friendly app to help drone pilots fly safely, providing users with real time information about drone regulations. Users have access to the latest drone-related media to personalize their experience and change the ease and safety of flying forever.
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Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Topic Challenge: Navigating Uncharted Waters: What role can payment providers (like Visa) play in collaborating with new entrants (like FinTech startups) to navigate regulations and drive industry transformation?
Think big, grow big. FinBig+ is a business development tool for large payment companies to share expertise with growing FinTechs to navigate current regulatory and compliance issues. FinBig+ bridges the knowledge gap between global corporates and start-ups to fuel innovation.
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Sponsored by Legal Mosaic
Topic Challenge: Tough Gig: How can technology be used to give gig workers a deeper understanding of their legal rights and responsibilities?
Crowd bargaining & knowledge sharing for the gig economy. Klustr is an e-commerce marketplace that connects merchants and insurers to gig workers by offering discounted goods and services. Klustr also provides a platform that brings gig workers together in order to share their knowledge and bridge the gap of the gig economy.
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Sponsored by The Ferraro Law Firm
Topic Challenge: Fake News and the Search for Truth: In the age of information accessibility, how can we prevent the spread of false facts so that justice is served?
Lighting the way. KOMOREBI is a virtual reality training tool that helps police officers recognize and control the effect of their implicit gender biases and increase empathy with domestic violence victims so they can provide better assistance in the future.
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Sponsored by Eversheds Sutherland and Link Asset Services
Topic Challenge: Justify Me: How can in-house really know that legal tech enhances their value while keeping business and the bank account in mind?
The search is over. Legal Genie is a smart, secure & cost-effective tool that detects email attachments, prompting in-house lawyers to upload them to a centralized, searchable platform. This enables retrieval + review of specific clauses and vital information across 100s of contracts.
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Sponsored by Cozen O’Connor
Topic Challenge: Back to the Future: How can law firms best use past case outcome data for future initiatives?
Turn your data into legal insights! NOMOS is a platform for subrogation lawyers that collects, normalizes, and presents key information for their firm’s subrogation cases. NOMOS offers legal insight to help subrogation lawyers learn from the past, gain a competitive advantage, and elevate client service.
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Sponsored by Leah Cooper Consulting
Topic Challenge: Anti-tech Tool: How might in-house legal teams shift current processes to bypass the need to purchase a contract management system?
Finding efficiency one task at a time. PROCESS P.I. is a diagnostic toolkit enabling corporate legal teams to identify inefficiencies and improve client service. Using an automated questionnaire, PROCESS P.I. identifies issues and creates a detailed report to highlight optimizations and recommend solutions .
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Sponsored by iManage
Topic Challenge: Are You Feeling Me: How can law firms, in house departments and technology providers collaborate for better business outcomes?
For smarter business engagements. ProPosal is an AI-driven solution that cuts the response time for request-for-proposals by automatically searching and suggesting best practise answers, using the firm’s most successful proposals as a data source. ProPosal also identifies internal areas of expertise.
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Sponsored by Microsoft
Topic Challenge: Tech for Good: How might advancements in tech and AI be used to empower immigrant families in the United States?
Effective Pro Bono Work — Share Your Story. Publico is a platform that enables pro bono volunteers to easily access the training and knowledge they need; providing the greatest return on their time for the causes they care about.
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Sponsored by White & Case
Topic Challenge: Redesigning the Playing Field: How might we create a hiring process for law firm candidates that takes into account a more meaningful slate of indicators of capability and fit, and does not rely inequitably on a candidate's academic pedigree and/or professional or social network?
Don't try to beat the rat race. Join The Rat Race. The Rat Race creates an accessible and level playing field for aspiring lawyers. Law firms can use The Rat Race's gamified skills-assessment tool to evaluate the attributes and non-academic skills of law school graduates, resulting in a simpler application experience
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Sponsored by Spotify
Topic Challenge: Making Your Voice Count: What role might Spotify play in broadening access to podcast creation and dissemination?
Finesse and express. SleekCast is a technology company that responds to the professional podcaster’s need for accurate market research and instant feedback on quality. Its software uses data analytics & AI to reduce time and uncertainty around producing an impactful, high-quality podcast.
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Sponsored by HSBC
Topic Challenge: Chains of Change: How can distributed ledger technology impact the way in which banks deal with their clients and how can it be used to improve the legal interactions between them?
Syndication made smart. SmartSyndi is a software solution for managing syndicated loans. Powered by blockchain coupled with smart contracts for seamless automation, SmartSyndi provides users with an efficient, convenient and auditable system for managing their syndicated loan transactions.
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Sponsored by Accenture
Topic Challenge: Organizing Chaos: How can distributed ledger technology facilitate advances in identification management in the foster care system?
Seeing their Past, Protecting their Future. VIDI is a blockchain-powered platform that allows foster parents, regional lead agencies and case managers to have immediate and easy access to the most current health information for children in Florida's foster care system.
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LWOW X
SPONSORED BY THE FERRARO LAW FIRM
Topic Challenge: Getting to Know You: How can we prevent cognitive bias from negatively impacting the law school admissions process?
Find the swan within yourself. Duckling is a platform that helps law school applicants combat implicit biases in the admissions process by using a chatbot so that they can bring out their most unique self in their personal statement.
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Topic Challenge: Tough Gig: How can technology be used to give gig workers a deeper understanding of their legal rights and responsibilities?
Online searchable Gig contract database that translates GIG Companies' contracts into simple language so that current and future gig workers can better understand the contract terms, provisions, and work conditions of their GIG company and others so that they can find the GIG company that best matches their preferences.
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Topic Challenge: Benevolence and Benefits: How can SMEs help their employees access the legal services they need in a way that avoids on- and off-the-clock waste and disruption?
Lead your employee out of the legal maze. Green is a chatbot that helps employees of SMEs identify the type of legal problem they are facing and connects them to the existing online legal resources that can help them resolve their personal legal problems and allow them to better focus at work.
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Topic Challenge: Going Green: How can distributed ledger technology be used to protect the environment?
#DontBeTrashy. Infinite Use decreases plastic pollution by incenting students on campus to use re-useable containers with a rewarding a gamified community-building experience.
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Topic Challenge: Fake News and the Search for Truth: In the age of information accessibility, how can we prevent the spread of false facts so that justice is served?
Lighting the way. KOMOREBI is a virtual reality training tool that helps police officers recognize and control the effect of their implicit gender biases and increase empathy with domestic violence victims so they can provide better assistance in the future.
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Topic Challenge: Save our Students, Protect our Schools: How can we best prevent gun violence in secondary schools?
Take the first step! LEAP is a warning collection tool for highschool students to anoymously report suspicious or harmful behavior by other students to their teachers to help schools prevent gun violence. Using chatbot technology, LEAP is school-based students can anonymously report suspicious behavior by other students on LEAP. This info is provided to teachers at the school so the teachers can collect, assess, address warning signs.
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Topic Challenge: Helping Heroes: How can technology increase veterans’ legal literacy?
Your transition, our mission. LeVet is a non-for-profit virtual world where soon-to-be and female veterans can 1) find reliable legal information in plain language about the discharge process, 2) connect with other women in similar situations and 3) share their experience anonymously to support soon-to-be female veterans navigate the discharge process.
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Topic Challenge: Helping Those Who Don’t Know They Need It: How can ProBonoNet reach audiences who are in need of our services and don’t recognize their needs fall under the umbrella of what ProBonoNet does?
Putting the pieces together. Pazzle is a virtual organization that helps low-income parents of autistic children understand and access the already-existing free legal services offered by ProBonoNet to help them advocate for their children's educational rights. It raises awareness among low-income autism parents that probononet can help them by hosting an all-virtual art challenge for autistic children along with hashtag and social media advertising.
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Sponsored by Holland & Knight
Topic Challenge: Decoding Diversity: How can blockchain be used to incentivize and enhance transparency of diversity within law firms in a way that comports with global privacy laws?
Building Legal Diversity Block by Block. BILD is a blockchain-powered verifiable, transparent, and uniform system to track diversity statistics across law firms.
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Sponsored by LATAM
Topic Challenge: Complying in the Sky: How might we use technology to manage regulatory compliance across the many territories in which we fly?
Your air compliance controller. ComPilot aggregates and assesses the timeliness, reliability, and content of aviation regulatory updates for legal and compliance professionals in Latin America.
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Topic Challenge: Make Good With What You’ve Got: How can existing resources be leveraged to provide quality legal information and services to refugees returning home after conflict?
#RebuildWithUs. Ghairat uses secure mobile technology to facilitates the land application process for returning Afghan refugees.
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Sponsored by Linklaters
Topic Challenge: No Dodo: Given the increasing use of technology and a tighter focus on costs, how should we develop the skills, judgement, and creativity of the next generation of lawyers?
Connecting legal expertise to tech solutions. Kentra helps lawyers work smarter while ensuring law firms get maximum value from their investment in legal tech products.
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Sponsored by Janders Dean
Topic Challenge: Friend or Foe: How can lawyers close the access, information, and relationship gap for Australia’s aboriginal juvenile offenders?
A community-based support platform. Kite equips at-risk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with a case management and alert tool that integrates their local communities and social support networks. Winner, Best Presentation
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Sponsored by Clyde & Co
Topic Challenge: Cultivating Resilience: How might blockchain and decentralized networks be utilized to help close the insurance protection gap in emerging economies?
Protecting Tomorrow's Farmers. Koneksi facilitates blockchain identity management for insurance companies servicing rural crop insurance markets.
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Sponsored by Leah Cooper Consulting + Cate Campany Consulting
Topic Challenge: Size Shouldn’t Matter: How can an in-house legal team be relevant to law firms and vendors regardless of spend?
Your intelligent client relationship builder. KYLe strengthens stronger, deeper relationships between firms and clients through a series of simple questions yielding intelligent insights.
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Sponsored by Interlaw
Topic Challenge: Smooth Operator: How can we use technology to enhance our cultural competency and gain a competitive edge when operating across international markets?
Your legal software advisor when expertise is needed. Loreto Solutions is a legal tech advisor to small- and medium-sized law firms navigating their tech tool purchasing and implementation decisions.
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Sponsored by Pinsent Masons + Kier
Topic Challenge: Expect the Best, Plan for the Worst, and Prepare to be Surprised: How can we improve lawyer’s project management skills from planning to execution to outcomes?
When time is of the essence and your project is paramount. MatterLinc - moving forward matters. MatterLinc is a proprietary software platform that provides secure, speedy information transfer customized to clients' preferences and needs.
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Sponsored by Spotify
Topic Challenge: Steward of the Arts: What role can Spotify play in assisting unknown and emerging artists with the knowledge, tools, and legal services necessary for global success?
Keeping your rhythm alive. Rytmos provides undiscovered music artists with a platform for promotion, gig booking, and legal and business resources. Winner, Best Overall
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Sponsored by Pinsent Masons + Royal London
Topic Challenge: Contractual Gold: How can AI be used to mine and leverage contract data to facilitate proactive compliance, legal risk monitoring, and to observe market trends in real time?
Harmonize your legal process. Satori drives value, efficiency, and engagement with in-house legal teams by optimizing repetitive, low-risk contract negotiations.
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Sponsored by LegalMosaic
Topic Challenge: Ready or Not: How can startups prepare for a GDPR world?
The link between Fintech startups and GDPR compliance. SERO equips Fintech startups with customized, cost-effective information, tools, and resources to achieve GDPR compliance. Winner, Neota Logic Prize
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Sponsored by HSBC
Topic Challenge: Knowledge Management or Mismanagement: How can knowledge management be utilized to help legal functions?
Keep your Knowledge at Hand. WALBot optimizes in-house knowledge management and efficiency by automatically identifying, tagging, and uploading external legal advice. Winner, Best Commercial
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Sponsored by Miami Law
Topic Challenge: Calm After the Storm: How can we best facilitate legal aid after a natural disaster?
Rebuild, Together. Weaver is a membership-based e-marketplace and matching service for homeowners and low-skill repair workers. Winner, Best Idea
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Sponsored by Microsoft
Topic Challenge: Redemption Song: How can technology help former prisoners forge a path from freedom to independence?
One opportunity can change everything. WE RISE provides formerly incarcerated women in California with resources for reintegration and empowerment.
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SPONSORED BY THE FERRARO LAW FIRM
Topic Challenge: Justice for One, Justice for All: How can we support self-represented litigants when they go it alone?
Be your own advocate with AlliMoni in your corner. AlliMoni simplifies and streamlines the process of enforcing alimony payments in Florida.
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Topic Challenge: Redemption Song: How can technology help former prisoners forge a path from freedom to independence?
Bounce over employment bars. BounceBack is an interest-based, localized job opportunity filter for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Topic Challenge: Calm After the Storm: How can we best facilitate legal aid after a natural disaster?
Connected Communities. Chorus is a social networking app that connects victims of natural disasters by increasing collaboration and communication on a local level during the recovery process.
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Topic Challenge: Justice for One, Justice for All: How can we support self-represented litigants when they go it alone?
Lighting the way for self-represented litigants. JusticeWay is an AI-powered app that assists self-represented litigants navigate the divorce process in Florida.
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Topic Challenge: Guarding the Greatest Generation: How can technology protect aging populations from cybercrime?
On the internet, nobody knows you’re lying. Except us. Maskoff is a machine learning fraud detection solution to protect aging populations from scammers on dating platforms.
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Topic Challenge: Redemption Song: How can technology help former prisoners forge a path from freedom to independence?
Map your way to independence. Redemption League uses mapping to provide former prisoners with tools needed for reintegration, redemption, and future success.
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Topic Challenge: Calm After the Storm: How can we best facilitate legal aid after a natural disaster?
More than money. Smart Donations is an online crowdsourcing platform that allows local providers of disaster relief to receive project-specific funding from international donors and, simultaneously, enables donors to track the use of their money.
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Topic Challenge: Guarding the Greatest Generation: How can technology protect aging populations from cybercrime?
The key to a cyber safe life. TechKey is a cybersecurity app that protects senior citizens from falling victim to online scams.
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2017 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: Client Confidentiality in the Digital Era: How can Law Firms Strengthen their Cybersecurity Measures?
Breaching walls since 2017! Breach is a corporate espionage themed computer game that solves cybersecurity woes through experiential learning. Users adopt the mindset of a spy or hacker and play as an agent who works for a company that is looking to gain a competitive advantage through cyberattacks.
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Sponsored by LATAM
Topic Challenge: Carrots and Sticks: What should be done when signatory countries and courts fail to uphold international obligations?
Claim Assist Service: Let AS handle the claim! Claim Assist Service provides airlines with a more efficient and streamlined process to handle customers' lost baggage claims.
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Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Topic Challenge: Cogito ergo sum: how can cognitive technologies transform the way financial institutions deal with the impact of regulatory change on their lending documentation?
The future of the financial services is clear. Clear Loan is a training tool for borrowers and an analytics tool for banks. We help reduce consumer complaints raised against banks through educating the consumer and help banks provide standardized evidence of compliance related to borrower complaints' raised during the lending process.
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Sponsored by Avvo
Topic Challenge: Changing Climates, Shifting Needs: How can Alt.Legal leaders take a bigger role in access to justice?
Create an idea, click to join, collaborate to make a difference. Consortio is an online crowdsourcing platform driven by innovative legal service providers and their employees that aims to foster the innovation of and collaboration on access to justice projects.
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Sponsored by Bupa
Topic Challenge: Defying Death by Disclaimer: How Can In-house Lawyers efficiently manage the Legal Risks of Consumer Marketing in a Digital, Customer Centric World?
Write away, the right way. Creative Licence is a user-friendly, AI-based solution that gives marketeers instant feedback on high risk words and phrases as they type. It helps make sure that the copy which comes to the legal team for sign off is already high quality, freeing that team from correcting the same basic errors over and over again and letting them focus on the content that presents the highest risk. It’s like having a lawyer, a compliance officer and a brand guardian in the room with your marketeers, giving them tips as they type.
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Topic Challenge: Weakest Link or Front Line Fighter: How can law firms lead cybersecurity services for clients?
Your business' link to cybersecurity. Hayven is an online marketplace that enables SMEs to find, compare and procure cost-effective cybersecurity services from trusted vendors.
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Sponsored by Janders Dean
Topic Challenge: Friend rather than foe – how can the law enable a better life for migrants held in detention?
Offer your hand. Ithaca is a not for profit web app which seeks to overcome the difficulties faced by refugees in obtaining legal assistance. Ithaca connects refugees with lawyers based upon expertise and needs whilst also providing a platform for the storage and access of legal information and documentation.
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Sponsored by LegalZoom
Topic Challenge: Legal Efficacy, Consumer Demand, and Market Approach: How Can Contract Visualizations Turn From Concept Into Reality?
Bringing visual flow to legal agreements. LAVA.io is a legal tech company that provides visualization software that creates clear, engaging, visual agreements for legal service providers. Through the power of visuals, LAVA.io increases understanding of legal terms and enhances comprehension of obligations and ramifications of legal agreements.
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Sponsored by Eversheds
Topic Challenge: The Role of In-house Counsel is Evolving Fast: How Can Lawyers in Law Firms use Technology to Keep Up?
Leave it to LEA, your Legal Expertise Aggregator. LEA is an app that helps declutter your life by aggregating and curating all your relevant legal news and industry updates in one place.
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Sponsored by Interlaw
Topic Challenge: Lawyering beyond borders: How can global legal practices streamline multi jurisdictional working by leveraging virtual tech?
Global legal answers, 24/7. Lexi is an interactive chat bot that allows members of an international legal network to get answers to frequently asked substantive legal questions as well as a referral to the fittest attorney in the foreign jurisdiction for their international issue.
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Topic Challenge: Strategize This: How can external counsel help in-house counsel manage legal as a business?
Keeping legal and business in the loop. Looper is a post-signing contract lifecycle platform for modern businesses and legal departments. Using AI capability to analyze contracts, Looper presents key obligations, dates and information in an intuitive way. By using Looper, in-house legal and business departments will be able to find and monitor their contracts proactively, improving communication and integration between the two.
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Sponsored by Microsoft
Topic Challenge: Legal Department 2020: How can in-house legal departments use AI to realize greater efficiencies?
Your personal contract assistant. Mikey is an internal chat-bot system that is designed to answer contract based questions for companies with in-house legal teams. By creating a new, easy to use platform Mikey helps to reduce time constraints upon legal teams while ensuring a company is still able to get answers.
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Topic Challenge: Mentor? Sponsor? Advisor? What role should law school faculty play in student development?
The science to mentorship that helps you grow. OrGo is an app that helps law students and lawyer mentors create meaningful mentorship relationships. OrGo matches students and mentors based on threads of commonality and chosen levels of engagement.
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Sponsored by DiversityLab
Topic Challenge: Blind Vision: How can law firms use technology to reduce bias in the lateral recruitment process?
A blindfold for bias, a must for diversity. Recruit+ is a hiring tool designed to increase diversity and overcome the obstacle of cognitive bias in the hiring process by blinding sensitive information contained in CVs.
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Topic Challenge: A Case in Point, A Point inCase: How can law students better share ideas inside and outside of the classroom?
A case in point, a point in case. Spoticase is an online, student-focused index of court cases in the public domain. Each case is annotated by students, professors, or attorneys with text, diagrams, and videos. These crowdsourced annotations help students better comprehend what they are reading while they are reading it.
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Sponsored by Spotify
Topic Challenge: Growing Pains: How does a legal department stay
functional, flexible, and sustainable from startup to Fortune 500?
Tag it, search it, find it. TagMail is an enterprise email plug-in software for large and rapidly growing companies. It provides an easy and intuitive solution to improve the efficiency of legal departments, by capturing and preserving valuable corporate knowledge buried in their emails. TagMail is a software that will contribute to foster a culture of collaboration in many legal departments
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LWOW X
Topic Challenge: You've arrived, now what? How can lawyers ease the settlement process for new asylum seekers?
The help you need, when you need it. Collaboro is a website that connects immigration lawyers together, enabling them to share their knowledge, resources, and experience. So imagine: a LinkedIn, TEDTalk and Reddit all rolled into one, designed for London’s 4,000 immigration lawyers.
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Topic Challenge: Underage and Underrepresented: How Can We Protect Youth From Cyberbullying?
The wings your child needs for cyberbullying awareness. Fun, interactive and engaging game to be downloaded by parents on the parent´s phone for kids between the ages of 8 and 10 years old (kids still play on parent´s phone), in order to create cyberbullying awareness on kids before kids get their first phone (average: 10.3 years old)
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Topic Challenge: Underage and Underrepresented: How Can We Protect Youth From Cyberbullying?
Your online bandaid. Amibot is a Facebook Messenger Chatbot who provides LGBTQ+ high school kids with first-time comfort and support after they are cyberbullied. By providing first-aid – it is your friend and your counsellor who tells you not only "don't cry," but also the better way to react to cyberbullying and protect yourself.
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Topic Challenge: Friend rather than foe: How can the law enable a better life for migrants held in detention?
Connecting people to law. Connecting community. To bridge the gap of legal information and incoming/settling refugees, HeyMate will connect refugees with legal professionals and organisations through informative events in the public arena. With translation of localised resources, HeyMate will help educate Refugees of their legal rights by connecting them with the legal industry in a new environment.
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Topic Challenge: Homeless Not Helpless: How Can we Create Legal Shelter for Those Without a Home?
Climbing up together. HHelpers is a platform for Hidden Homeless in LA (within an age range of 25-30) who are willing to acknowledge their condition, that provides them with strong and during relationships that help them change for the better and combat the hardships and psychological trauma associated with homelessness by providing connections between hidden homeless and law students (and alumni).
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Topic Challenge: Friend rather than foe: How can the law enable a better life for migrants held in detention?
Lawyer up before you land. When migrants are being held in detention in airports, a gap is created. They can’t get in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer doesn’t have access to the information required to file a habeas corpus petition on behalf of the migrant. Inlet is a platform to pre-emptively submit personal information necessary for a petition against wrongful detention, and automatically connecting it to a lawyer upon detention to kick-start the petition.
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Topic Challenge: Is it really a deal? Assessing
the ethics of plea bargaining
Knowledge. Leverage. Awareness. Plea Negotiator is a web platform that utilizes Amazon machine learning to holistically evaluate plea bargains after trawling through millions of prior criminal scoresheets. Plea Negotiator empowers defense attorneys with the knowledge of what plea deals similarly situated defendant’s have accepted, creates leverage for defense attorneys that can be used during plea bargaining, and creates awareness of inequitable plea resolutions along the way.
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Topic Challenge: Is it really a deal? Assessing
the ethics of plea bargaining
Bridging the knowledge gap between public defenders and first-time offenders. PleaPrimer is a web-based app that helps first-time misdemeanor defendants understand the plea process, ramifications of the plea, and general plea information tailored to the circumstances of their case so they are prepared in advanced to meet their public defender and make the most of that first meeting. PleaPrimer does not provide legal advice; rather, it primes someone to be ready for the plea process.
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Topic Challenge: You've arrived, now what? How can lawyers ease the settlement process for new asylum seekers?
Legal solutions to refugee integration. Free, online, and on-demand. Settle is Australia’s first free virtual legal services platform for refugees. Settle connects those granted a permanent right to stay in Australia with ondemand, pro-bono lawyers to help them overcome the legal obstacles standing between them and integration.
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Topic Challenge: Homeless Not Helpless: How Can we Create Legal Shelter for Those Without a Home?
Legal advice and support for those about to lose their home. When you are about to lose your home, ShelterMe! will guide you through the legal hurdles of obtaining alternative housing. We are reintroducing intimacy and trust to process that has become increasingly impersonal.
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2016 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin
Topic Challenge: Catch 22?: Assessing the ethics programs of M&A targets, partners and suppliers without reference to a specific country's laws or regulations
A+thics uses an objective global standard to help big corporations evaluate and enforce the ethics and compliance of international vendors.
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Sponsored by Holland & Knight
Topic Challenge: How can law keep the sporting industry fair? You be the referee.
ACE is an app to equip tennis players with the awareness, knowledge, and skills to resist the influence of match fixing.
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Topic Challenge: Cooking Up a Secret Sauce: The law school application and admissions process, reimagined
BOND is an online platform that connects law school hopefuls and alumni during the application process to help determine the right fit.
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Topic Challenge: The Right to Rat: Protecting whistleblowers from a bad rap
C.cube is a ratints and data analysis portal evaluating company compliance systems in Japan, China, and South Korea.
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Sponsored by Bupa
Topic Challenge: How can lawyers use technology to help millions around the world live longer, healthier, happier lives?
Caspecto uses cognitive computing technology to turn uncertainty into informed decisions by helping prospective litigants assess the viability of their case and decide whether to sue.
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Topic Challenge: Fight or Flight: Where can/should lawyers go after BigLaw?
Catalyst Squad matches senior transitioning attorneys with startups in need to build thoughtful and innovative companies.
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Topic Challenge: Even Tradition Can Be Enhanced with Technology: How can it improve important protected trial processess?
UniformITy increases access to justice by providing lawyers with information on existing and allowable technology in courtrooms and linking small and medium-sized firms to IT vendors who can implement their technology strategies.
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Topic Challenge: Connecting Lawyers to Social Entrepreneurship: The ultimate two-for? Lawyers give and get
cYOUpid is a legal matchmaking platform of self-rediscovery that connects lawyers to their lost passions.
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Sponsored by Microsoft
Topic Challenge: In a big data world, how should service providers strike a balance between making money and responsibly managing users' data?
Datadam is a data compliancy certification scheme that clarifies what data consumers are sharing when using wearable devices.
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Sponsored by DiversityLab
Topic Challenge: More Minorities at the Top: What will it take to increase and sustain diversity in high-level legal leadership positions in law?
Daycare Buddy is an app that helps working parents keep track of their children in day care.
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Topic Challenge: Growing Pains: How can law firm leaders manage and leverage today's multi-generational firm for the future?
FeedForward is a platform offering instant feedback and recognition to junior associates and empowers partners to identify and measure key talent.
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Sponsored by Legal Zoom
Topic Challenge: Does practice make perfect? How do we find an objective measure of legal quality?
Mana uses artificial intelligence to assess the quality and supporting information of written legal documents.
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Topic Challenge: Forget me not? Helping today's youth gain protection from a right to be forgotten tomorrow
PhotoGuard is a social media app that educates and empowers teenagers to protect themselves against damaging social media posts.
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Topic Challenge: If airlines can do it, why can't law firms? How can law firms profitably disaggregate services without being despised?
Record Cleaners is a do-it-yourself expungent and sealing platform designed to give people with a criminal record a second chance at success.
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Topic Challenge: Microsoft's Hololens, Google Glasses, and Infinity AR: How should augmented reality change the legal marketplace?
RelayIT.legal creates visually dynamic evidence presentations to help small to medium-sized firms better relay their cases to juries.
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Topic Challenge: Even Tradition Can Be Enhanced with Technology: How can it improve important protected trial processes?
Robin's hood is a platform that builds and trains communities to resolve neighborgood disputes via crowdsourced online mediation.
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Sponsored by UnitedLex
Topic Challenge: What's the Recipe: How can general counsel offices measure success internally and across the organization?
RQST is an enterprise-level software application that measures the value in-house counsel provides for senior management.
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Topic Challenge: In the modern new legal landscape, how can we measure success?
Vide is a DIY biographical video app to present and humanize the defendant's story to the judge during court proceedings.
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Topic Challenge: A New Kind of Risk Management for Lawyers: Substance abuse prevention and education for the modern legal profession
An interactive app that educates law students on substance abuse and empowers them with tools and techniques to stay healthy, communicate about challenges, and access supportive resources.
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Topic Challenge: Forces of Change: How can technology aid information management in the European Refugee Crisis?
An online platform enabling German citizens who want to make a positive difference in the European refugee crisis to discover and apply for volunteer opportunities in their local area.
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Topic Challenge: Even Tradition Can Be Enhanced with Technology: How can it improve important protected trial processes?
UniformITy increases access to justice by providing lawyers with information on existing and allowable technology in courtrooms and linking small and medium-sized firms to IT vendors who can implement their technology strategies.
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Topic Challenge: From Lass to Lawyer: How can we empower the girls of today to be tomorrow's female law leaders?
An interactive app and children's history curriculum companion focusing on women leaders and their stories, accomplishments, and contributions.
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Topic Challenge: Getting Schooled: In troubled areas, how can law help enforce women's right to education?
Inertia is a program empowering recent university graduates in the Ukraine to employ their mediation skills in their rural hometowns by resolving disputes, educating others on problem solving skills, and empowering women with communication and negotiation tools.
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Topic Challenge: Lawyers as Leaders: How can lawyers be empowered to create social change?
LexLeader is an interactive app that combines games and lectures designed to increase lawyers' leadership skills, focusing on time management, body language, strategy, leadership, charisma, and voal tonality.
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Topic Challenge: Rethinking Nonprofits: New models for legal aid for vulnerable client populations
A network linking rural communities in Lithuania with legal clinics in Vilnius via phone to broaden access to justice for communities in need.
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Topic Challenge: She, He, We, and Who: Rethinking access to justice in a non-binary world
An online platform for small to medium-sized employers in London who seek to increase their LGBTQ awareness. Rewheel rates employers based on their inclusiveness, culture, and policies, educates employers and employees, and provides a monitoring and reporting function.
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Topic Challenge: Connecting Lawyers to Social Entrepreneurship: The ultimate two-for? Lawyers give and get.
An online platform that prevents financial abuse of the elderly by educating aging citizens and their caretakers about financial scams, rights, and protective tools.
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Topic Challenge: The Right to Rat: Protecting whistleblowers from a bad rap
Whiz is an online platform for would-be whistleblowers to learn about their rights and report suspected violations.
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2015 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: Running for their Lives: How can the Legal Profession help prevent violent crimes against minors so they do not have to flee?
Teach, explore, and protect the best interests of the immigrant child. Advocat is a revolutionary, multilingual interface for minor immigrant detainees and their advocates that uses gamification to build trust and explain and safeguard the best interests of the child.
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Topic Challenge: The Wild Wild West of Arbitration: Are you ready for what really happens behind closed doors?
The New Generation of Arbitration. Arbitr offers startups and small companies a user-friendly way to browse and find emerging arbitrators in a way that makes arbitration more cost-effective.
Topic Challenge: E-Discovery and Legal Process Outsourcing: Commoditization or Democratization?
For Lawyers, By Lawyers. CORE facilitates seamless interaction with LPOs through a cloud-based, centralized workspace.
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Topic Challenge: Weeding through Lawyers: How does a client choose when lawyers claim they are different but sound the same?
Legal Procurement Beyond Pricing. Full Circle offers an efficient online legal procurement service for small to mid-sized companies.
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Topic Challenge: Exits and Re-Entries in the Law Market: Stop-Gaps? Or potential for innovation?
Enabling ambitious women. Using GPS and social networking technology, the GoGetHer app connects moms looking to re-eneter the legal market with a community of women wanting to elevate the role of women in law leadership.
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Topic Challenge: Servicing the lawyers to service the clients: How can technology, new mediums, and global support structures be utilized to help lawyers help their clients?
Keep Your Case Afloat. LawBoat is an online platform that matches lawyers with clients in search of affordable legal services. LawBoat utilizes a proprietary Issue Spotting Matrix to analyze each client's specific legal needs and connect the client with the best fit among LawBoat's database of experienced lawyers.
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Topic Challenge: Legal Entrepreneurs and Venture Capital: Finding a common language in an uncommon ground.
Funding the Future of Law. LegalSeed is an equity crowdfunding platform that bridges the gap between startup infancy and seed funding by vetting and mentoring legal startups, as well as connecting them with accredited investors.
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Topic Challenge: Redesigning the Law Classroom on the cheap: What can we learn from teaching and learning methods outside of law?
Teach to Learn. Learn to Teach. Minerva is an online portal that offers course planning tools, teaching techniques, and nationwide knowledge-sharing to help new law professors succeed inside the classroom and within the world of academia.
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Topic Challenge: Training the Trainers: Which skills should law professors have for 21st century professor-ing?
Where law school adjuncts gather & grow. Project Agora is a nonprofit organization providing law school adjuncts with in-person and online opportunities to collaborate and foster the skills and relationships necessary to be effective 21st century law professors.
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Topic Challenge: Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Finding an Interim Solution for Law Grads Without Jobs
Conquer Compliance, Enhance Yourself. REACH bridges the gap between compliance and culture by training Chinese law graduates in US compliance laws and then facilitating placements with American companies and firms operating in China.
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Topic Challenge: Limited Legal License Technicians: Glorified Paralegals or New roles for increased access to justice?
A Resolution is Just a Click Away. ResoClick is a Canadian mediation firm providing a comfortable, convenient, efficient, and totally virtual solution for parties involved in family law disputes who cannot or do not want to meet face-to-face.
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Topic Challenge: Got Ethics? Making use of bar organizations' ethics opinions
The Right Way to Go. ShowTegrity is an e-learning platform designed to educate law firm support staff on how to properly handle common ethical dilemmas that arise in a law firm setting.
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Topic Challenge: Breaking the Conviction Cycle: How can we empower our at-risk youth after the first offense?
Invest in Good. Social Shift Hub is an online intermediary agency that helps bring quality social projects targeting youth recidivism to life by connecting projects in financial need with willing private investors.
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Topic Challenge: Dinosaurs in Sneakers: How can BigLaw innovate, collaborate and change to avoid extinction and get back in the race?
Collaborate for Growth. Vayu is collaborative software for BigLaw lawyers that facilitates large-scale, global teamwork on complex matters by consolidating communication and work product in a centralized platform.
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Topic Challenge: There's No Access to Justice without Access: How can we deal with disabilities in the courtroom?
Translawit On Demand / Video / Virtual Interpretation Services. VIS Nexus uses video-link technology to bridge the communication gap by providing on-demand virtual interpretation services for UK courts.
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Topic Challenge: Harnessing the Power of Watson: Utilizing Cognitive Technology to help the law firm make better decisions and build a stronger relationship with clients
Navigating Risk to Fast Track Your Dreams. WeSeeRisk is an app that helps entrepreneurs identify, understand, and navigate legal decisions so they can build their dream business without worry.
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Topic Challenge: In a glocal world, how do corporations reduce the dark zone of unknown corporate misconduct? There's got to be a solution
Creating Human Firewalls. WhiteHatters increases cybersecurity protection and builds awareness against targeted phishing attacks through simulation and deconstruction learning.
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SPONSORED BY THE FERRARO LAW FIRM
Topic Challenge: Running for their Lives: How can the Legal Profession help prevent violent crimes against minors so they do not have to flee?
A revolutionary, multilingual interface for minor immigrant detainees and their advocates that uses gamification to build trust and explain and safeguard the best interests of the child.
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Topic Challenge: Limited Legal License Technicians: Glorified Paralegals or New roles for increased access to justice?
A tool to help corporations ensure that third party suppliers comply with corporate ethics and regulations.
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Topic Challenge: Legal Entrepreneurs and Venture Capital: Finding a common language in an uncommon ground
Bridges the funding gap: a showcase for legal startups to connect w/ all types of funders: crowd, angel, VCs.
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Topic Challenge: Goth Ethics? Making use of Bar Organizations' Ethics Opinions
One stop search engine that compiles all ethics opinions across all states by issue.
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Topic Challenge: Training the Trainers: Which skills should law professors have for 21st century professor-ing?
An online community celebrating + spreading great law teaching practices.
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Topic Challenge: Servicing the lawyers to service the clients: How can technology, new mediums, and global support structures be utilized to help lawyers help their clients?
Online platform to help lawyers provide more efficient + effective service by empowering their housing clients.
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Topic Challenge: Redesigning the Law Classroom on the cheap: What can we learn from teaching and learning methods outside of law?
Providing students around the world access to niche courses by helping law professors of these courses online.
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Topic Challenge: Dinosaurs in Sneakers: How can BigLaw innovate, collaborate and change to avoid extinction and get back in the race?
Enabling litigation associates to identify firm lawyers that have worked with the same clients + counsel + judges.
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LWOW X Compliance
Topic Challenge: Anti-Trust Compliance Issues in an International Context
The game that teaches you the rules. A fun, trivia-based game that allows student athletes to learn the rules in the NCAA handbook while tracking the progress of athlete's right to compensation.
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Topic Challenge: Effective Strategies to Prevent Retaliation for Reporting Misconduct
Compliance Produces Results. A secure app for small + med business that provides industry specific compliance + ethics info in real time.
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Topic Challenge: Dealing with the Effects of Mental Health Issues on Ethics-Related Conduct
Mindful Compliance. Raises awareness of lawyer depression with an app promoting wellness by uncovering gaps in law firms' mental health services.
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Topic Challenge: Managing Ethics and Compliance Risk Downstream through the Supply Chain
Fair Play by Fair Work. A platform for self-reporting to protect construction workers' rights when building FIFA World Cup facilities.
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Topic Challenge: Managing Conflicts of Interest Between Companies and Regulators
Let's Work Together to Make our Food Safe! A mobile application that collects consumers' negative reflections about any store or restaurant they have just visited.
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Topic Challenge: Developing Effective Communications Strategies for Ethics and Compliance Topics
Play with your phone and save lives. A one stop application aimed to solve the compliance communication issues faced by companies having off site employees, especially the mid-sized construction companies in India.
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Topic Challenge: In a Glocal World, how do corporations reduce the dark zone of unknown corporate misconduct
Are you hungry? An app that provides Chinese people with information about fast food + the suppliers.
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Topic Challenge: Ambiguous Legal Issues Associated with Investigations and Audits
Play, learn, comply: an app to teach players the NCAA rules and adverse implications from breaking them.
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Topic Challenge: Building Effective Anti-Corruption Initiatives that Target Third Party Intermediaries
Empowerment through knowledge. A software enabling compliance officials to compare legal codes from different jurisdictions to facilitate transactions with third-party intermediaries.
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2014 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: MOOCs, DOCCs, and Avatars, Oh My: How Will We Educate Our Lawyers and Law School Students Tomorrow?
Bitesize legal updates for English family lawyers for smart phones, tablets, and computers.
Topic Challenge: Introducing The New Shareholders: Designing The Optimal Law Firm Ownership Structure in an ABS World.
Accessing Justice from the Cloud. Case Crowdfund is the Kickstarter of personal injury litigation in the United States. We help connect personal injury victims and their law firms with people looking to profit from investing in the legal services industry while furthering access to justice.
Topic Challenge: Coping Alone: How Should Legal Systems Cope With Self-Represented Litigants?
Family matters. Court Companion provides the support and help those who represent themselves in family court need but do not get from the legal system.
Topic Challenge: It’s Not Our Responsibility Or Is It?: Balancing the Commercial Goal of Making Money with the Moral Obligation to Protect Human Rights
Vision through Voice: Providing Companies with true vision into their factories by giving a voice to the workers. FACToryReport is a mobile-based grievance mechanism that collects and reports data and is linked to a certification system to promote corporate social responsibility and increased supply chain transparency.
Topic Challenge: Targeting the Consumer Law Market with Predictive Data Analytics: Big Brother? or My Brother’s Keeper?
Genere Opus helps class action lawyers pinpoint and pursue potential class actions by using big data to identify possible claimholders in Quebec.
Topic Challenge: Court Systems and Technology: If I am a Legal Document Where Do I Go and How Do I Get There?
It’s finally the day you get paid, it’s judgment pay. Judgment Pay is an online portal that harnesses the powers of crowdsourcing to help those who have obtained a favorable civil judgment collect the money they are owed.
Topic Challenge: The More Lawyers Work, the Less They Learn: How Do Lawyers Keep Up on New Law?
Automatic. Relevant. Necessary. LawBytes enables lawyers to keep up on their areas of expertise by instantly providing the latest business and legal information in bite-sized form.
Topic Challenge: Redesigning the Client Legal Memo: How Can Lawyers Create A More Interactive Way to Help Clients Avoid Legal Problems?
Keeping your client in the loop. Legal Loop is an interactive cloud-based website that assists lawyers in keeping their clients updated and informed about their case via a convenient, easy-to-use platform.
Topic Challenge: Practicing Law as a Network Rather Than as a Firm: Best Practices, Best Platforms, Best Rules of the Game
Ironing out the wrinkles in the transition from law firm partner to an active retirement. LegalDiAMOND provides retiring partners with a smooth transition out of the law firm by facilitating meaningful connections to charity organizations.
Topic Challenge: Robot Lawyers: The Future of On-Line Chat Attorneys
LegalLeave is a human resources robot that saves UK companies time and money by ensuring employee leave inquiries meet legislation and company policies and by managing employee leave records.
Topic Challenge: Court Systems and Technology: If I am a Legal Document Where Do I Go and How Do I Get There?
Hear Victims, Help Victims, Protect Victims. Help victims of Human Rights abuses find their voice and share their story. Nirubi is an innovative app interface that provides a secure way for NGOs to gather, record, and share witness testimony.
Topic Challenge: Increasing Access to Justice and Creating New Models of Regulation: How Can the Two Go Hand-in-Hand?
Be #selfless. Be #selfless with ProBonoPro.org, a social media platform that matches law students with relevant pro bono opportunities, allows students to track and certify their pro bono hours, and enables others to publicly endorse students’ skills.
Topic Challenge: Legal Gaming: Can Having Fun Improve Legal Services?
Let gaming get you to the next level in real life negotiations with REALations. Compete, collaborate, and communicate with friends, strangers, colleagues, and even your favorite law professor as you negotiate to win.
Topic Challenge: Secondments: Client Service at its Best or a Second Rate Solution?
Putting secondments first. Second.Me is a virtual platform that allows law firms to maximise their returns on a secondment. Second.Me's proprietary software allows users to capture value typically lost in the secondment review process by enabling knowledge sharing and management.
Topic Challenge: Taking the Solo Out of Solo Practice: Finding The Right Accompaniments to Make Solo Practice a Success
Solo Builders: a website to start, manage, and expand solo attorneys’ practice so that they never fly solo again.
Topic Challenge: Business Advisor, Psychiatrist, Friend, Legal Counsellor, Gatekeeper: Putting the Many Faces of the Lawyer Together in an Integrative Way
Grow your business from the ground up. Spring Now provides practical, interactive, and effective legal and business resources to the modern small business owner operating online. From setup to sale, Spring Now guides small business owners to success.
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Topic Challenge: Practicing Law as a Network Rather Than as a Firm: Best Practices, Best Platforms, Best Rules of the Game
A Legal Network Protecting Children. Created a global network that teams junior and experienced lawyers to tackle difficult human rights cases dealing with children specifically. The under-experienced lawyers receive mentoring and real work experience while qualified attorneys can fulfill their pro bono requirements.
Topic Challenge: Robot Lawyers: The Future of On-Line Chat Attorneys
Create a one-stop legal resource shop for microbrew enthusiasts seeking to turn their hobby into profit.
Topic Challenge: MOOCs, DOCCs, and Avatars, Oh My: How Will We Educate Our Lawyers and Law School Students Tomorrow?
Created a game that teachs risk management skills, making the learning process evolutionary and immersive. LexEdge uses methodology from education theory - using spaced repetition and repeat testing of information to reach the ‘higher levels’ of learning.
Topic Challenge: Increasing Access to Justice and Creating New Models of Regulation: How Can the Two Go Hand-in-Hand?
Created a phone application that reminds defendants in the Miami-Dade Drug Court about their court/drug testing appointments.
Topic Challenge: Court Systems and Technology: If I am a Legal Document Where Do I Go and How Do I Get There?
Hear Victims, Help Victims, Protect Victims. Help victims of Human Rights abuses find their voice and share their story. Nirubi is an innovative app interface that provides a secure way for NGOs to gather, record, and share witness testimony.
Topic Challenge: The More Lawyers Work, the Less They Learn: How Do Lawyers Keep Up on New Law?
Created a research database for lawyers that gives them the research they need. It gets rid of inconsequential or extraneous cases, by organizing the case law within subtopics.
Topic Challenge: It’s Not Our Responsibility Or Is It?: Balancing the Commercial Goal of Making Money with the Moral Obligation to Protect Human Rights.
WORKURIBE provides the information needed by international organizations and the tools needed by local NGOs to protect the human rights of the people in Niger Delta from the exploitation of oil companies.
2013 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: Crowd Source and Open Source Lawyering: Good Job or Flash Mob?
Access 2 Access is a web platform that uses crowdsourcing to provide resources to underprivileged communities.
Topic Challenge: Discovery in the Cloud: Can a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Survive the Age of Technology?
Kickstart your cloud education. Cloud Quickstart is an interactive, online resource educating lawyers about cloud technology and how it can optimize their practice.
Topic Challenge: The New Face of Diversity: Supporting Minority Attorneys in the Local and Global Legal Marketplace
Diversia educates today’s professionals on cultural competencies through interactive gamification.
Topic Challenge: Law Firm Efficiency: Tomorrowland or Fantasyland?
Lawyers efficient way to learn efficiency.
Topic Challenge: Not Lost in Translation: Delivering Legal Services Across Multiple Jurisdictions and Common/Civil Law Traditions
GGL is a membership-based one-stop-shop resource portal that provides attorneys and law firms the information they need to expand their legal services into overseas jurisdictions. By providing business set-up advice, cultural insights, local introductions, and professional services discounts, GGL helps firms by streamlining their expansion processes and connecting them to other members in the GGL community.
Topic Challenge: The Death of the Cover Letter: Rethinking How to Find a Job and Build a Career
JD Handshake matches prospective employers with law students through an online platform. Please email us if you would like to watch the recording of this presentation.
Topic Challenge: Doing Well and Doing Good: New Models for Pro Bono in Legal Education and Practice
Bringing 21st century technology behind 20th century walls. This team created JusticeBeyondWalls, a virtual portal to connect the underserved and underprivileged in American immigration centers with Pro Bono lawyers throughout the United States.
Topic Challenge: Cyber Justice: Using Technology to Provide Legal Services to Underserved Around the Globe
LFAW provides technological solutions for issues women face around the world by empowering them with the knowledge and resources they need.
Topic Challenge: The Law School Law Firm: Can and Should Law Schools be Legal Service Providers?
Ideate. Innovate. Implement. LawVentures is an incubator for business innovations by law students, providing both resources and a physical space for taking ideas to launch.
Topic Challenge: Building a Better Mousetrap: Recreating and Redefining Successful Social Networking by Law Firms and Law Schools
Lawyers Future is a website for lawyers to educate each other on the latest technology and work with IT specialists to improve their capacity and resources.
Topic Challenge: Supermarket Law Firms: Honey, Can You Pick Up Some Ice Cream and an LL.C.?
Revolving around you. LegalAxis is an innovative new business model that delivers basic legal service at a fix competitive cost. LegalAxis increases the access to legal services through a hybrid model where service can be delivered online or at a retail space.
Topic Challenge: The Increasing Importance of Corporate Compliance: More Jobs For Law Grads or Another Threat to Lawyers’ Monopoly?
My Compliance Match is a database for small companies seeking compliance service providers.
Topic Challenge: Crunching Mega Data to Make Decisions: Risks and Rewards of Quantitative Legal Prediction
Your data is the target. Aim to educate yourself. MyDataWatch is an open source website for people to read (in layman terms) the ways in which companies are collecting data to which they may or may not have consented to and how this data is being used by the company. This source provides a discussion forum and best practices on how data should be used to protect the privacy of the consumer in certain situations.
Topic Challenge: A School for General Counsels? How Should Prospective GCs Develop Their Skill Set?
The University of General Counsels is an online platform connecting general counsels to law schools, enabling law students to become more attractive candidates for in-house counsel positions directly out of law school.
2012 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: Trickle Down Justice? Access to Justice for Vulnerable Client Populations
Founded a global NGO featuring a social-network like website specifically designed to unite and connect legal, political, and community advocates around the world who fight against human trafficking.
Topic Challenge: International Arbitration: What’s Under the Invisibility Cloak?
Created a website that, using a "bottom up" approach, allows individuals to share and allow others to learn from their experiences with consumer arbitration when a contractual agreement with an international entity has gone awry.
Topic Challenge: Law School Debt: Students Beware or Law Schools Take Action?
Created a low-cost website using widely available web tools that crunches data and produces invaluable data to prospective law students who are unsure whether taking on the debt of attending a particular law school is a wise financial decision considering the recent job/salary prospects for recent graduates of that law school.
Topic Challenge: Law School Career Services: The Next Generation
Developed a website targeted to law school career services office that allows schools to much better serve the career search needs of their students by providing online tools and resources that are unavailable through more traditional delivery methods.
Topic Challenge: Virtual Legal Education: Can Law Schools Span the Distance?
Designed an all-encompassing, powerful piece of software that puts together a number of the very best features of software products often used in online education to create a one-stop-shop software solution for law schools looking to do virtual education right.
Topic Challenge: Alternative Courts on the Brain: Psychologically Based, but Are They Sound?
Using current psychological and neuroscientific research, created a web-based plug-in for social networking sites like Facebook and Google+ that teaches responsibility and encourages moral decision-making by using cookies and custom-crafted algorithms to inform users when they are making poor posting choices and provide them the opportunity to make a better decision.
Topic Challenge: Alternative Courts on the Brain: Psychologically Based, but Are They Sound?
Developed a web-based professional match-making service that connects start-up companies looking for talented professionals to help build the business with recently graduated, entrepreneurially-minded lawyers who are pursuing a non-traditional career.
Topic Challenge: The Disaggregation of Legal Services: A Service or Disservice to Clients
Built an aggregating website that serves as a one-stop-shop for customers looking for online legal services, allowing them to easily search for a solution across multiple online legal service providers to find the best fit and solution.
2011 Projects of Worth
LWOW Original
Topic Challenge: Fallout from the Legal Services Act: Publicly Held Law Firms and Other New Models of Law Firm Structure and Ownership
Designed an online resource to the Legal Services Act 2007 that provides information on the LSA, offers an external finance matrix for prospective law firm investment, and connects the LSA community by providing a blog and forum for discussion.
Topic Challenge: Finding Common Ground: Regulatory Issues Across International Borders
Conceptualized a global association for legal services regulators and developed an online forum through which national and subnational lawyer regulators could connect, share learnings, and cooperate with respect to lawyer licensing and discipline.
Topic Challenge: Redefining the Smart Lawyer: Professional and Emotional Intelligence Training
Conceptualized an Emotional Intelligence in Legal Practice Test for law students and practitioners, a stand alone course on emotional intelligence for law school professors, and a Post J.D. Certificate in Emotional Intelligence for law schools.
Topic Challenge: Rethinking Value: Alternative Strategies to the Billable Hour
Created a website designed to match individuals looking to buy or sell residential real estate in New York City with lawyers who offer a non-traditional billing structure and who are willing to allow for consumers to bid on their services.
Sponsored by Pinsent Masons
Topic Challenge: AI Transparency and Accountability: How can AI-based decisions for commercial purposes (e.g., recruiting or targeted advertising) be more transparent and less biased?
Building trust in AI recruitment for law firms. AIA is an artificial intelligence aggregation and distribution software for law firms' HR teams to use for screening applications. AIA compares AI HR application softwares to streamline recruitment processes, while also increasing trust and confidence in AI.
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