Legal Hacking for Beginners: How to become a Legal Hacker

Update 10.10.2016

• First talk will start 19:15 sharp!!!

• All talks in German, but English-speakers still welcome: summaries in English and conversations afterwards too

Update 30.09.2016

Dear Legal Hackers!

We now have a confirmed list of speakers for our event on October 10 2016.

The event will start at 19:00 PM. Talks will start around 19:30.

Now to the good stuff. We will have 4 speakers which are a mixture of veterans and new comers in the legal tech scene. All of them have at least one current legal tech project they are actively working on.

In no specific order we will hear a talk around 20 minutes each by the following guests.

Law & AI
"Understanding Legalese - Semantic Text Analysis based on Formal Language Models"

by kristall from cbase

• kristall is a legal tech native, studying both law whilst working as a legal tech software developer on formal language analysis. His groundbreaking software allows businesses and law firms alike to heavily automate labor-intensive processes around text analysis.

Digital Legal Practice
"From digital waste to digital gold - Tapping New Revenue Streams as a Digital-First Law Firm"

by Florian Daniel

• Florian Daniel is a Berlin-based lawyer specialized in IP, IT, Media and Competition Law. With his law firm "multimediarechtler" he follows a digital-first strategy, transforming the meaning of legal practice today. Based on a heavily software-automated process, his law firm can handle huge case loads, which enables them to create completely new revenue-streams for a boutique-sized law firm.

Access to Justice

"Fighting with equal weapons - Enabling Internet Users to defend themselves against Germany's Cease-And-Desist Industrial Complex"

• by Beata-Konstanze Hubrig and Dirk Engling aka erdgeist

Beata-Konstanze Hubrig is a lawyer fighting for the rights of users in a digital reality. Dirk Engling is a freelance software engineer, contributor to a variety of open source projects, and spokes person for the German hacker's association Chaos Computer Club. Together, Beata and Dirk have built a free-to-use service for German internet users to fight the country's unique copyright-enforcement industry.

If you're as excited as me about those amazing speakers, then be sure to come on October 10 to cbase Berlin. For those who haven't been to the location yet: it's a bit hard to find. It's in the third backyard of Rungestrasse 20. There's a sign at street level.

Cheers,

Florian, @heckerhut

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Dear Legal Hackers!

How did you become a legal hacker? How do you hack the law? Maybe you're just starting out, curious about what legal hacking exactly is and how to achieve legal hacker status. In any case, we're interested to meet you at c-base Berlin on October 10 2016 around 7pm local time.

c-base is one of Berlin's most original institutions for those with a hacking mindset. If you haven't been there yet, you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that such places still exist and are full of active, friendly people, who are welcoming even to lawyers ;-) Thanks to kristall from c-base for making this possible!

In this upcoming meetup we want to hear interesting stories from those of you who have been hacking the law with software, services, new revenue models, or maybe just an Excel Sheet.

If you have an interesting story to tell, feel free to get in touch with me, so we can work something out.

More details will follow as soon as we have a confirmed list of speakers.

Best wishes and keep on hacking,

Florian