Greetings DC Legal Hackers! We’re excited to announce our new team of co-organizers: Morgan Livingston, Alex Lyte, and Andrew Ware. We’ve recently relaunched the chapter and are eager to reconnect with members of the DC Legal Hackers community. You’re welcome to reach out on Twitter or email if you have ideas to share for future
From 2013-2020, alongside Jameson Dempsey, Alan deLevie, Wendy Knox Everette, and John Chadwell, I co-organized a meetup called DC Legal Hackers in Washington D.C. When Jameson and I (both New York City ex-pats) met up in D.C. to discuss recreating the NYC Legal Hackers meetup community I don’t either of us anticipated how big the
Le Hackies 6 (2019) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: Community.Lawyer
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
Legal Hacker of the Year: Jonathan Pyle
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Le Hackies 5 (2018) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: Impowerus.com
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Center for Democracy and Technology
Legal Hacker of the Year: Carl Malamud
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Le Hackies 4 (2017) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: Mozilla
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Georgetown University Law Center
Legal Hacker of the Year: Brad Heath
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You should research current digital security best practices based on your individual threat model. But for posterity (and insight into organizing training sessions), check out our materials from our Digital Security Training with ACLU DC and Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy in August 2017.
See also Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law
Le Hackies 3 (2016) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: Upturn
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: TechCongress
Legal Hacker of the Year: Kat Duffy & Bill Hunt
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Le Hackie 2 (2015) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: YouTube (Google) for its Fair Use Protection Program
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Open Technology Institute
Legal Hacker of the Year: Kirsten Gullickson
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Le Hackies 1 (2014) Winners
Le Hackie Company of the Year: Fastcase
Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Free Law Founders
Legal Hacker of the Year: Dave Zvenyach
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In April 2012, Phil Weiss and Warren Allen hosted the BLIP Legal Hackathon, an event that would prove foundational for the Legal Hackers community. At the event, the organizers defined a powerful mission statement:
“The goal is to morph and evolve the law on one hand to better serve technologists, enterprises and society, but
