Ashurst Legal Hackathon 2019 in Frankfurt

On 10th and 11th May, our Ashurst Frankfurt Office will be holding the very first Ashurst Legal Hackathon. The idea of the Hackathon is to develop innovative, practicable and marketable digital products over a 36-hour period in a friendly, but competitive spirit. We will have five teams consisting of law and IT students, mentored by an Ashurst fee earner and a member of Ashurst Advance. The teams will be assigned to a use-case which has been selected from ideas generated by Ashurst based on listening to our clients (e.g. building a tool to handle Subject Access Requests (Article 15 GDPR) in organisations) and the participants will be invited to design, code, develop and present a prototype digital product for the assigned use-case.

The Ashurst Legal Hackathon will involve leading Germany-based legal technology company BRYTER. BRYTER is a no-code, AI-powered toolset to turn expert knowledge into interactive modules. Without any coding experience, users can simply draw what is on their minds and the technology turns it into code. Thus, complex decision trees can be simply visualised and enriched with expert knowledge by drag and drop.

Prizes will be awarded at the Ashurst Legal Hackathon for the best development and implementation of the assigned use-case into a digital product that works. Ideally, the result should be a scalable digital product in a prototype version which has the potential to be further developed by Ashurst Advance for our clients.

To learn more on the Ashurst Legal Hackathon event and how to apply for participation in the contest, please read our press release on the event.

In the following video, partner Michael Holzhäuser explains the benefits of the Ashurst Legal Hackathon for our clients.