Combining Blockchain and AI to Make Smart Contracts Smarter

Blockchain, the technology behind smart contracts, and AI are quickly converging. Futurists claim this will produce an entirely new paradigm that forever changes how companies write contracts and conduct business. What changes…

Tech will only get us so far; you must first solve a ‘broken system,’ says legal forecaster Jordan Furlong

Founder of Dubai’s first legal services marketplace on how to ‘build a better future’ for law

Legal Advice ME’s Suzanna Kalendzhian discusses innovating in Dubai’s legal sector and hosting the city’s first legal hackathon as part of Global Legal Hackathon

With threats to defund legal aid, how can hackathons help tackle America’s ‘justice gap’?

ABA Fellow and Seattle GLH organizer Amanda Brown discusses how she’s tackling America’s justice gap with tech, the consequences of defunding legal aid, and what it’s like to…

Now’s the time for Romania’s legal sector to be as innovative as its IT sector, say Bucharest law firms

Hristescu & Partners and Bulboaca & Asociatii are hosting a Global Legal Hackathon event in the capital to bring Romania’s tech savvy to the legal sector

How are start-ups in South Africa making the justice system more user friendly?

HiiL hosts Global Legal Hackathon event in Johannesburg to support start-ups that use tech to improve people’s interactions with the justice system

Miller Thomson paves way for social — and structural — innovation in Canada’s legal sector

Miller Thomson lawyers tell us how they encourage innovation both inside and outside the Vancouver firm, including what they hope to see at next week’s hackathon

Students must ‘re-imagine a system that provides justice for all,’ says BYU Law student and hackathon organizer

We spoke to George Simons, student at BYU Law — a Global Legal Hackathon host in Provo, Utah — about how students propel legal innovation

US Congress learns about blockchain’s value—far beyond cryptocurrency

Joint committee hearing explores domestic and international uses of blockchain technology, including identity and contract management

How firms harness the power of a constantly evolving digital world

London co-host of the Global Legal Hackathon — Agile Elephant — shares insights on legal tech developments in London and how their work helps firms ‘make sense of digital’