Europe’s first Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. Hackney Community Law Centre (HCLC) is an amazing charity employing solicitors and paralegals to provide free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs.

Working in ‘start-up land’ with huge investments, cool spaces and posh coffee you might not realise life is harder for some of the other residents of Hackney. Despite government cuts HCLC do a great job, but they have many issues delivering legal services that can be solved by technology and in doing so help the most vulnerable people in our community.

The core problem this Hackathon will address is that 50% of clients drop out after one meeting, for a variety of cultural, social and language reasons. HCLC will start the Hackathon pitching three problem statements around these issues.

Prizes up for grabs include:

£1000 worth of startup legal advice, thanks to General Standards

£300 worth of Amazon Prizes, thanks to Crowd Justice and Amazon

Enter via EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legal-geek-law-tech-hackathon-law-for-good-tickets-20549370721 ;

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