Law for Good is the not-for-profit arm of Legal Geek. We focus on four main areas of work: Sign up to our Law For Good mailing list.
We are looking for pro-bono sponsors to help support us through 2018 - please email helen@legalgeek.co
We help legal charities use tech to improve access to justice
Our work has been recognised by:
CONSULTANCY
Are you a legal charity looking to do a tech project? We have a proven track record of delivering technology projects. We can help from scoping to hiring right through to launch.
Got a funded tech project? Email: helen@legalgeek.co [yes it's .co]
EVENTS AND TRAINING
Upcoming events organised via our Law for Good meetup.
Income Generation Roundtable
Over the past 4 months we have visited every Law Centre in London and we are exploring different ways Law Centres can charge fees to become sustainable. To attend this event please email: hello@legalgeek.co
Law for Good Meetup #1
Hear from 3 amazing speakers, who have changed their charities with technology. What did they wish someone had told them before they started This meetup is perfect for anyone with an interest in pro-bono, legal or advice charities and technology. Signup now [it’s free]
PROJECTS
We work with charities to design and deliver end to end technology projects and maximise their impact through tech. Here are some of the projects we have worked on:
You can also get involved in the Law For Good projects by volunteering with us or suggesting a project.
HACKATHONS
We organise LawTech hackathons for teams of lawyers, coders and UX specialists to design tech solutions for specific problems faced by legal charities.
After the success of the first ever Law for Good hackathon in March 2016 in which the winning team – Freshfields – designed a virtual receptionist for Hackney Community Law Centre, we held our second hackathon alongside the Legal Geek Conference in October 2016.
For our third, and so far the biggest, hackathon we have teamed up with Richard Susskind, the Society for Computers and Law, and The Judiciary to launch an Online Courts Hackathon. 30 teams (who came from as far as Australia) competed in July 2017 to build new concepts for the online courts system. The winning team made up from members of Wavelength Law and the Law Society of England and Wales designed and built “CoLin”, a digital pathfinder made to help an ordinary person identify, understand and resolve typical legal issues.
Make sure to join the Legal Geek community to keep up-to-date with all our future hackathons.
The team
Helen Gazzi
Helen is our Law for Good Manager. Helen was previously a lawyer at Clyde & Co LLP before joining a start up law firm, General Standards. She is also an Innovation Consultant at Law Centres Network, a Personal and Career Coach, WOW Talks Producer, and a Yoga Teacher at Solace Womens’ Aid.
Jimmy Vestbirk
Jimmy is the Founder of Legal Geek. He has over 10 years experience building startups and has started everything from a festival catering business at university to a touch screen software company and a portfolio of online dating sites. Most recently, he founded Legal Geek and is co-founder of F-LEX.
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