Final leg of the Legal Geek RoadTrip

After awesome events in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels and Paris we got up at 4am to drive back to London and get parked on the pavement in Canary Wharf outside Thomson Reuters offices. We heard from: Lucinda Case, Managing Director Thomson Reuters Legal UKI Jimmy Vestbirk, Legal Geek Julien Lasala, Nextlaw Labs/Dentons Garth Watson, Libryo See all the photos on Facebook: You […]

Paris Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After awesome events in Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels we arrived with high expectations in Paris on our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. Stay up to date with our event on our dedicated Road Trip page. For our Paris event we collaborated with Open Law and Village de LegalTech to organise a startup pitching event: We met and […]

Brussels Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After awesome events in Amsterdam and Berlin to open our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. Stay up to date with our event on our dedicated Road Trip page. For our Brussels event we collaborated with Legal Tech Belgium to organise a startup pitching event: We met and interviewed in Betty: @tprlegal @LawboxBe @OnSolAtt lex.be See […]

Dentons and Nextlaw labs: what’s next?

Europe is a hotbed for legal innovation, which is why we set out on our road trip to get the latest on how startups are changing this industry for the better. Berlin is one of the key centres for LawTech in Europe, and it’s also where you’ll find some of the key minds behind Nextlaw […]

Berlin Leg of Legal Geek Tour Complete

After an awesome event in Amsterdam to open our #LGRoadTrip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. For Berlin we collaborated with the ELTA Conference to organise an after party and interview people outside the venue in Betty. Jimmy also chaired a 15 person fireside chat on LawTech with meetups around the world. We met and interviewed in […]

Amsterdam Leg of Legal Geek Tour complete

What an amazing start to the Legal Geek Road Trip organised in collaboration with Nextlaw Labs. We met and interviewed 10 startups in The Hague and Amsterdam and jointly hosted a startup drinks in WeWork with Dutch Legal Tech with over 40 amazing guests. Congratulations to all the winning startups who won free startup travel tickets […]

Legal Geek hits the road

If you’ve been following the Legal Geek story since we got started, then you’ll notice that our Startup Map has become an authority for LawTech in the UK. But we know we’ve only scratched the surface of all the cool ways that lawtech startups can change the legal industry for the better – not just […]

What’s the point of hackathons anyway?

When lawyers want to change something they tend to put a big, hierarchical team together. A partner or two to take the big decisions and all the credit; associates to run things day to day; assistants and paralegals to do the actual work; maybe a project or business manager to keep things moving. So while […]

Shruti Ajitsaria tells Legal Geek the vision behind Fuse (A&O)

Shruti Ajitsaria, Head of Fuse at Allen & Overy, talks about the tech innovation space she is heading up and her own personal interest in technological innovation within the legal sector. The connection between law and technology is suddenly undeniable; particularly over the last year, we have become accustomed to seeing lawyers around the world […]

Free travel grants for startups we meet on our RoadTrip

Legal Geek is excited to collaborate with NextLaw Labs to support the growing legal tech ecosystem in Europe. We are both committed to supporting start-ups that set out to transform the practice of law with technology. This tour of Europe, in Betty, a 1971 VW camper van, sets out to meet and showcase as many startups as […]