The legal community seems to be catching the hackathon bug. A group of legal organizations hosted the first Global Legal Hackathon, soliciting pitches for legal technology for innovative legal technology projects, while the recent Women in Law Hackathon used the hackathon model to get attorneys thinking creatively about ways to end the gender pay gap in large law firms.
The Florida Justice Technology Center (FJTC) is hoping that enthusiasm will translate into justice-oriented technology. The FJTC and digital agency Urban Insight, funded by a grant from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) to Tampa-based Bay Area Legal Services, this May hosted its third annual virtual Legal Aid Hackathon, hoping to get legal and technology teams involved in developing technology to help low-income communities navigate legal issues.
