Cooperative Legal Tech

I'm always thinking ahead to the next big thing. I'm forever hunting for new technologies to improve my practice, and I think of myself as a true futurist who tries to stay ahead of the curve.

I'm also a team player. I thrive when working with a team of talented individuals working towards a common goal. I believe that there's strength in numbers and that working together always produces better results than working alone.

I believe that collective action is more effective than individual action. When we work together, we can challenge the dominance of the legal-tech market leaders and level the playing field. We can make a real difference and create lasting change in the legal industry.

Blockchain enables stronger collaborations between groups by creating a secure and decentralized way to store and share data. This allows for more transparency and trust between collaborators and leads to better results.

Blockchain also enables enforcement of individual intellectual property rights by creating a secure and tamper-proof way to store and share data. This allows for greater transparency and trust between parties and ultimately leads to better results.

That's why I'm starting a new collaborative project. I'm temporarily calling it the Shalalaw EXP, short for experiment and experience. I had planned what kind of blockchain project I would pursue, what governance would look like, and who I would bring on the projects. But then I thought, "Why not make those choices part of the project?"

Right now, the project is on paper only, but here's the general outline:

The project would be technically run through a DAO. The EXP DAO would be a walled garden, where participants are vetted, KYC'd contributors to the project. EXP DAO would be a governance system wrapped in a legal wrapper (TBD: Coop, LLC, C-Corp), and it would hold full or partial stakes in sub-DAOs.

The sub-DAOs are where projects would live and permit people to participate in projects in a self-determined scope. Those projects could be managed via Dework (or other similar platforms) to reward contributors in a well-documented manner. This would allow new project groups to quickly form without the bureaucracy of a large organization.

The current project ideas include, in broad strokes, a contract management platform, dispute resolution services, legal tech hackathons, and tech services for lawyer platforms.

If you want to be part of the conversation, join the effort, or learn more, you can check out the Github page or the Discord Server.

Let's see what happens!