A concentrated effort to bring global innovation to businesses in a New York county has brought about a partnership between a law firm and a novel platform for virtual negotiations, coded in the blockchain.

Earlier this month, the Westchester Innovation Network (WIN), an initiative of the “Business Council of Westchester” in New York, announced that a blockchain-based negotiation and contract management platform called DocuWalk would be tested by a law firm for the first time, through an alliance with Fullerton Beck, a litigation firm located in White Plains, N.Y.