Updates and Legal Securitizing
As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been delayed as of late here at RRH. Luckily, though, it’s not just because we’ve been sitting around in the living room and eating Funyuns. There’s been two big projects on the hopper:
* A First Project: We’ve been cranking on finding organizational partners and getting spun up to develop our first application that we’re planning on rolling out in early 2011. It’s looking like a neat little initial step in robotic lawyering. Stay tuned!
* Legal Hacking Conference: There’s also been some interest among folks in throwing together a potential legal hacking conference over the summer, in the vein of the geek conference classics like DEFCON or HOPE. The idea would be to bring together folks who are working on legal technology, but also generally doing awesome things in hacking around the constraints of the law. More news on that soon as well!
In the meanwhile, the partners have been watching the recent trend of investments in law suits with much interest. We’ve been putting a good deal of thought into the possibility of creating a commodified legal instrument that’d allow you to easily trade/sell/buy tort claims. This 7th Circuit case seems to permit it, though obviously more research/legal engineering would have to go into it.
