DISRUPTING LAW 2023

🏆 Winner: Claimswift

🌟 Announcing the Winner of Disrupting Law National 2023! 🌟
🚀 We are thrilled to reveal the winner of this year's Disrupting Law National Hackathon. Amidst a fiercely competitive field, one team emerged victorious with their innovative solution.

Congratulations to the Claimswift team! Their AI Chatbot, ClaimSwift, is designed to set up initial personal injury claims and generate essential documents. This innovative solution aims to simplify and streamline legal processes, reducing stress and increasing efficiency for clients and lawyers alike. Watch the video for more details.

🎉 A Special Thanks from The Legal Forecast 🎉
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all participating teams, our supportive partners, especially IP Australia, and the dedicated mentors across QLD, NSW, VIC, and WA.Our thanks also go to the judges (Michael Cristiano, Colin Levy, Julian Ubergang, Holli Sargeant and Schellie-Jayne Price) for taking the time out to watch all of the pitches.

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What is Disrupting Law?

Disrupting Law is a unique 54-hour hackathon for tertiary students focused on finding new opportunities in the legal industry. Disrupting Law allows people to join forces in creating solutions through fast paced, creative and interdisciplinary problem solving. Serving as a platform for idea generation, relationship building and skill progression, participants will be energised and geared up to tackle the next challenge in the legal industry.

Students from a range of faculties and universities come together over a weekend to search for the next best idea to advance legal practice in a novel way. In a process that is deliberately randomised to spark new connections and friendships, student teams are partnered with mentoring law firms. One contestant described the process as “strangers to founders in 54 hours”.

HOW WILL THE WEEKEND RUN?

On the Friday evening, all contestants will gather at their host university for an opening celebration and we will allocate student teams to their mentoring firms.

Students and their law firm mentors will spend 54 hours designing an idea to “disrupt law”.  All teams will pitch to a panel of experienced judges and the public on Sunday evening for a range of opportunities, awards and prizes. We will provide you with food and drink for the entirety of the weekend.  

You must be available for the whole weekend. Part of the fun (and the challenge) is that we randomise teams so you meet new and interesting people with perspectives from other universities and, potentially, faculties. Although the problem space focuses on law, all tertiary students are welcome to participate, no matter their university or degree.  As you must hit the ground running, we particularly encourage those with law and technology backgrounds to apply (but an interest and a measure of enthusiasm will suffice!).