The Global Legal Hackathon 2019 Inspires Legal Innovation Around the World
Three teams from around the world were selected as winners at the Global Legal Hackathon 2019 finals gala for developing the most innovative solutions to problems faced by the legal world.
NEW YORK, May 10, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Global Legal Hackathon 2019 finals gala on Saturday, May 4 brought 12 teams together from around the globe in New York City to present their final projects aimed at solving an issue faced in the legal industry. To conclude the four-month competition, three of the teams were selected as winners by an esteemed panel of judges.
The winners for the three categories of solutions were:
- Uthority (Germany) –Access to Justice
- Legal Shapers (Romania) – Business of Law
- Intelilex (Poland) – GROWL
The winning teams began developing their solutions in February during the first round of the hackathon. Following the second round, 12 teams were chosen out of teams from 41 cities to move on to the finals gala in New York City hosted by White & Case LLP. Prizes for the winning teams provided by Olenick, Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co - FBC (Israel) and Integra were valued at more than $20,000. The first place teams developed the following solutions in order to help solve a problem in the legal world:
Uthority – 82% of people experience difficulties to comprehend legal language in the letters they receive from the authorities. Solution: An app allowing you to take a picture of the letter with OCR functionality, giving a quick summary of the most relevant information in 'normal' language and suggesting next steps. Further functionality: contact information of the authorities and governmental consulting bodies, list of legal service providers, a range of templates relevant to the identified legal topic.
Legal Shapers –Lawrelai is designed by Legal Shapers to be your first trusted legal travel advisor, easily accessible via Facebook's Messenger App. Lawrelai's uniqueness consists of its global coverage and of its free component of reliable and up-to-date legal information to most common occurrences while travelling abroad. In case of immediate need during your travel, Lawrelai offers personalized legal assistance based on a fee, through its verified local legal professionals.
InteliLex –InteliLex helps lawyers find the content they already created any time in the past within seconds by directly integrating with Microsoft Word and by using Machine Learning algorithms. InteliLex suggests relevant parts of text while a document, such as a contract, is being written.
In its second year, the Global Legal Hackathon 2019 was the largest legal innovation event of all time, with around 6,000 participants from 24 countries and 46 cities competing. The GLH has inspired collaboration and innovation with one goal in mind, rapid development of solutions to improve the legal industry, world-wide. By bringing some of the best minds in law and technology from around the world together, participants had the opportunity to form teams around an idea for a solution and develop them into viable applications.
The Global Organizer of the GLH, Pierson Grider, stated, "The intention of the GLH is to give people from around the world a platform they may not otherwise have. We want anyone who has an idea, whether it's about how technology might be able to solve a legal industry problem or how it might give more people access to legal aide, to be able to develop their solution and demonstrate it to a global audience. The support from our sponsors, host cities and participants is what makes that possible and we are very grateful."
Following the Global Legal Hackathon, the winning teams and finalists will work to continue developing their solutions with the potential to change the legal industry for the better.
SOURCE Global Legal Hackathon 2019
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