Legal Informatics Projects Featured at Open Data Day DC 2013

The program for Open Data Day DC 2013, also called Open Data Day 2013 Hackathon – DC Metro — to be held 23 February 2013 in Washington, DC, USA — includes at least four legal informatics projects:

• Contract/Procurement Visualization Sprint (Visualizing.org) [...]
• Open DC Zoning Data (@andrewsalzberg) [...]
• Parse dates and legal citations from RECAP documents [...]
• Discover Bill Pedigree

The Twitter hashtags for the event appear to be #opendataday #dc

Updates about the Open Data Day DC 2013 activities are available on the event’s hackpad.

If you know of other legal informatics projects to be discussed at Open Data Day DC 2013, please mention them in the comments.

Information about other legal hacking events appears here and here.

HT @JoshData

20-21 January Legal Hackathon re: Trademark Technology, Silicon Valley

Tim Hwang tells us that there will be a legal hackathon focusing on trademark technology, on 20-21 January 2013, in Mountain View, California, USA, sponsored by AttorneyFee.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #TMHacks

Here is a description of the event:

AttorneyFee is holding its first hackathon ever, and we want you to join us! The event will kick off at 10:00 AM on January 20th and go till the next day at 5:00 PM. Copious amounts of caffeine, pizza, and beer will be provided. Come with a team, or come on your own and join a team. Come with an idea to work on, or join our ideation session in the morning to develop an idea. At the conclusion of the event each team will present their project, and the coolest project will win some swag.

The focus of the hackathon will be trademarks. Why trademarks, you ask? We recently finished building three super valuable APIs for trademarks that we hope will enable more open innovation in the space: (i) the AF TM applications API, (ii) the AF TM attorneys API, and (iii) the AF TM logos API. Together, these three APIs should enable devs to build a slew of cool new apps to disrupt the trademark industry. [...]

For more details, please see the complete announcement.

HT Tim Hwang

Law Hack Camp London postponed until April

Amanda Bancroft announced today that the legal hacking event Law Hack Camp in London has been postponed until April 2013.

Bancroft says she will announce precise dates and other details shortly.

The Law Hack Camp Website is at http://lawhackcamp.com/ and its Twitter handle is @LawHackCamp.

HT @_millymoo

Call for Papers: Law Hack Camp, Legal Hackathon, London, 26-27 January 2013

[NOTE: Law Hack Camp has been postponed until April, @_millymoo announced on 6 January 2013.]

A call for papers — with submission deadline of 25 December 2012 — has been issued for Law Hack Camp, a legal hackathon to be held 26-27 January 2013, London, England, UK.

The event is being organized by Amanda Bancroft and Jon Harman.

The Twitter hashtag for the event is #lawhackcamp

The Twitter account for the event is @lawhackcamp

For more details, please see the conference Website and the contact information listed there, or contact the organizers.

Click here for information on other recent legal hacking events.

HT @_millymoo

Posts and Videos on Legal Hacking Events

Several posts and videos have been published about the legal hacking events — the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon (held 15 April 2012); the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, held 18 April 2012; and the International Legislation Unhackathon (held 19 May 2012) — that have taken place in recent weeks (If you know of others, please mention them in the comments):

Here are videos and posts about/from the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon:

• Videos from the Brooklyn Law School Legal Hackathon [on YouTube]
• Videos from the Hackathon [on ustream]
• Nick Allard at BLIP Legal Hackathon
• Bianca Bosker, Legal Hackathon Challenges Lawyers To Think Like Hackers
• David Canton, Legal Hackathon
• Tim Hwang, Horses to Water [slides]
• Lea Rosen, Hack the Law
• sethopia, Hacking the Law [on Slashdot]
• Phil Weiss, Reflections on a Legal Hackathon

Here are posts and videos about the the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition:

• Ron Friedmann, Iron Tech Lawyer Competition at Georgetown Law School
• Nightly Business Report story on the Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition
• Greg Lambert, The Next Generation of Computers Practicing Law

For posts and resources about the International Legislation Unhackathon, held 19 May 2012, click here.

For post and resources about the Open Legislation Hackathon 2012, held 2 June 2012 in Victoria, BC, click here.

Legal hacking is a movement. On Twitter, the hashtags for legal hacking news are #legalhack and #legalhacks. Click here for upcoming legal hacking events.

Legal Hacking Is a Movement

Legal hacking is a movement.

On Twitter, the hashtags for legal hacking news are #legalhack and #legalhacks.

Several legal hacking events — i.e., meetings at which developers engage in coding or other development activities leading to the creation of new legal technologies, or enter their new legal technologies in competitions — are scheduled for the coming weeks [if you know of others, please mention them in the comments]:

• April 18: Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, Washington, DC, USA
• May 12: lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology Unconference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• May 19: International Legislative Unhackathon, San Francisco, California, USA, and online
• June 2: Open Legislation Hackathon, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• June 29: LawTechCamp London 2012: Legal technology unconference, London, England, UK
• July 6-7: Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, Paris, France.
• January 26-27, 2013: Law Hack Camp, London.

For resources about Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, click here.

For post and resources about LawTechCamp London 2012, held 29 June 2012 in London, England, click here.

For post and resources about the Open Legislation Hackathon 2012, held 2 June 2012 in Victoria, BC, click here.

For posts and resources about the International Legislation Hackathon, held 19 May 2012, please click here.

Click here for information about the Legal Hackathon held 15 April 2012 at Brooklyn Law School Incubator & Policy (BLIP) Clinic, Brooklyn, New York, USA. The hashtag for the hackathon was #legalhack. Click here for some video from the hackathon.

Click here for posts and video from recent legal hacking events.

Click here for other upcoming legal informatics conferences.

Thanks to Ed Walters and Roger Skalbeck for suggestions.

[NOTE: Updated 27 October 2012 to add Law Hack Camp, London].

Legal Hacking: Upcoming Events

Legal hacking is a movement.

Several legal hacking events — i.e., meetings at which developers engage in coding or other development activities leading to the creation of new legal technologies, or enter their new legal technologies in competitions — are scheduled for the coming weeks [if you know of others, please mention them in the comments]:

• April 15: Legal Hackathon at Brooklyn Law School Incubator & Policy (BLIP) Clinic, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• April 18: Georgetown Law Center Iron Tech Lawyer Competition, Washington, DC, USA
• May 12: lawTechCamp 2012: Legal Technology Unconference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• May 19: International Legislative Unhackathon, San Francisco, California, USA, and online
• July 6-7: Open Legislative Data in Paris: A Conference of the Third Kind with Hacktivists and Academics, Paris, France.
• January 20-21, 2013: Legal tech hackathon on trademark technology, Mountain View, California, USA [Twitter hashtag: #TMHacks ].
• February 23, 2013: Open Data Day 2013 Hackathon – DC Metro Area, Washington, DC. [Twitter hashtags: #opendataday #dc]
• April 2013: Law Hack Camp, London.

Thanks to Ed Walters and Roger Skalbeck for suggestions.

[NOTE: Updated 20 January 2013 to correct date of Law Hack Camp London, and to add Legal tech hackathon on trademark technology.]

[NOTE: Updated 27 October 2012 to add Law Hack Camp, London.]