{"id":20750,"date":"2017-09-07T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/?p=20750"},"modified":"2017-09-07T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:20:35","slug":"nominated-ft-innovative-lawyers-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/nominated-ft-innovative-lawyers-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re nominated for FT Innovative Lawyers Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, we launched Legal Geek by accident when Jimmy Vestbirk was looking for a new business opportunity and his market research has turned into the largest legal startup community in the world, with over 5,000 active members. We are so pleased to be acknowledged in the Financial Times Lawyers Awards. Jimmy Vestbirk says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards are one of the most respected awards in the industry and it is a huge honour to be part of this event. Thank you to everyone who nominated us! The Legal Geek Community has grown from nothing to an incredibly strong and active community, but there have been moments of doubt, and definitely blood, sweat and tears! Being acknowledged for this award makes it all feel worthwhile; from the bottom of my heart I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has shared on our journey so far. High fives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Over the last year alone we have:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travelled to 5 countries on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/legal-geek-road-trip-2017\/\">Road Trip<\/a> and interviewed over 50 legal startups in Betty, our vintage VW camper van<\/li>\n<li>Organised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/event\/online-courts-hackathon-2\/\">Online Courts Hackathon<\/a> with Richard Susskind, HMCTS and SCL with over 200 attendees<\/li>\n<li>Helped several legal charities with free websites and advice through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/law-for-good\/\">Law for Good<\/a> initiative<\/li>\n<li>Organised several meetups to increase diversity including Women in LawTech and Lawyers of the Future<\/li>\n<li>Helped the Conveyancing Regulator understand and predict future regulation<\/li>\n<li>Relaunched our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/startup-map\/\">legal tech landscape map<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Launched our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/legal-geek-of-the-week\/\">Legal Geek of the Week<\/a>\u00a0feature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, we launched Legal Geek by accident when Jimmy Vestbirk was looking for a new business opportunity and his market research has turned into the largest legal startup community in the world, with over 5,000 active members. 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