• Meet Our Fall '24 Justice Tech Accelerator Cohort!

    The eight startups in our Fall '24 Justice Tech Accelerator cohort will be presenting their products to a panel of judges at our Demo Day event on Nov. 19th—we invite you all to come check it out!

    For more info and to RSVP for Demo Day, please visit Eventbrite.

    BrightWayz

    Co-Founders - Danielle Platt & Mike Moss

    Brightwayz is dedicated to improving access to legal services for underserved communities by leveraging technology to streamline processes and increase efficiency. Their platform aims to simplify legal navigation, making access to resources easier for those who are underrepresented.

    We Decide

    Founder - Wanda Butler

    We Decide is a platform dedicated to helping people navigate legal separation by providing accessible resources, practical guidance, and support tools for individuals going through the divorce process.

    Advocord

    Founder - Nancy Meyers

    Advocord is a life-management platform for all advocates in the role of guardian, conservator, or Power of Attorney to record, manage and share the details of their dependents’ lives.

    descrybe.ai

    Co-Founders - Richard DiBona & Kara Peterson

    Descrybe.ai is a free, AI-powered platform that simplifies caselaw research by offering natural language search and summarization, making complex legal information accessible for both professionals and laypeople.

    Kosigner

    Founder - Nate Western

    Kosigner is a risk model backed platform that aims to improve housing quality for marginalized populations by co-signing for renters with low to no credit or criminal records.

    OpenProBono

    Co-Founders - Arman Aydemir & Nick Colvin

    OpenProBono aims to provide legal information in a faster, easier, and more affordable way. They offer an Open-Source web and mobile AI-powered platform where users can ask questions, verify information, and discover resources to address their legal issues.

    OpenProBono

    Founder - Aparna Komarla

    Redo.io helps government agencies identify folks in the carceral system who are harshly sentenced for low-level offenses and maybe eligible for second-look case reviews under justice reform laws such as Prosecutor Initiated Resentencing (PIR).

    Thurgood

    Founder - Brandon Burns

    Thurgood uses AI to provide legal services to the 160 million annual victims of arbitration-eligible claims. Their client intake product saves attorneys over 200 hours per year, with a take-rate up to 14.4x higher than phone-based evaluations.

  • Spring 2024 Video Series: Artificial Intelligence & the Law

     

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  • Law and the Pandemic

    Check out the latest episode of LexLab's newest podcast.

    UC Law San Francisco has created a podcast series to share insights related to pressing legal questions arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can see the full list of episodes here and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

  • LexBlab

    Our legal tech podcast includes interviews with subject experts as well as recordings of some of our most popular panel events. Take a listen below!

     

    Check out the articles Shane Glynn refers to in the Deepfakes & Politics episode.

    Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security

    by Robert Chesney and Danielle Keats Citron (California Law Review)

    Who Do You Sue? by Daphne Keller (Hoover Institution)

  • Event Recordings

    Recordings of our recent virtual events are available below. Check out our Vimeo page for all recordings.

    Meet the New Cohort

    January 25, 2023, Hybrid

    Six legal tech startups in our accelerator program introduced themselves to the Hastings community and answered questions in individual breakout rooms. Our Spring 2023 cohort includes Aurelian, BackedMe, Briefpoint, The Legal Accountability Project, Ligalio, and Paraply.

    Data Privacy Day with Women in Security and Privacy (WISP)

    January 24, 2023, Hybrid

    Demo Day

    April 21, 2022 Hybrid Event

    Five legal tech startups in our accelerator program introduced themselves to the Hastings community and answered questions in individual breakout rooms. Our Spring 2021 cohort includes: CaseYak, Graphletter, Inkly, JusticeText, and Legal Karma, In addition, students from Professor Alice Armitage's "How to Build a Legal Tech Startup" class pitched their final project idea to a panel of judges.

    CryptoPunks, Copyright & NFTs

    March 3, 2022 Virtual Event

    LexLab organized a discussion about what CryptoPunks and Bored Apes can teach us about NFTs and copyright. This one-hour webinar featured: Brian Frye (Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law); Shane Glynn (Adjunct Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law); Tom Hågen (crypto legal scholar and NFT expert); and Victor Wang (Co-founder of Inkly & former NFT lawyer).

    Demo Day

    April 21, 2020 Virtual Event

    On April 21, six legal tech startups from LexLab's accelerator cohort presented their companies in front of judges, investors, and legal tech evangelists. Our judges were Paul Harmon, Senior Claim Counsel at Travelers; Josh King, General Counsel at RealSelf; Angela McCray, General Counsel at Greenoaks Capital; and Zach Posner, Managing Director at the LegalTech Fund. The companies that presented were Anü, Jade, People Clerk, PwrSwitch, Trokt, and YoTengoBot.

    Cultivating Pipelines for Diverse Legal Professions

    April 1, 2021 Virtual Event

    LexLab and Helena Sowah co-hosted an event on diversity in law & tech. Helena Sowah moderated an exciting panel of legal and tech leaders. The panel included: Avonte Campinha-Bacote, General Counsel at Oura; Angela McCray, General Counsel at Greenoaks Capital; Dawn Myers, Founder and CEO at THE MOST; Brian Patterson, Partner at Gunderson Dettmer; and Sherry Truong, Privacy Counsel at Twilio.

    Meet the New Cohort

    January 26, 2021 Virtual Event

    Seven legal tech startups in our accelerator program introduced themselves to the Hastings community and answered questions in individual breakout rooms. Our Spring 2021 cohort includes Anü, Jade, People Clerk, PwrSwitch, Rain Intelligence LLC, Trokt, and YoTengoBot.