Le Hackie Awards 2014: DC Legal Hackers honor leaders and innovations in the legal hacking community

Le Hackie Awards 2014 — an event, organized by DC Legal Hackers, that honored leaders and innovations in the legal hacking community — were held 3 December 2014 in Washington, DC, USA.

One Twitter hashtag for the event was #legalhack

Click here for a storify of images and Twitter tweets from the event.

Here are the winners of the awards, according to a list sent by Rebecca Williams, co-organizer of DC Legal Hackers:

• Company of the Year: Fastcase, led by Phil Rosenthal and Ed Walters


• Organization of the Year: Free Law Founders, whose many members are listed here


• Legal Hacker of the Year: Dave Zvenyach

Top 10 Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Capitol Bells , founded by Ted Henderson


• Coding for Lawyers , written by Dave Zvenyach


• @CongressEdits , developed by Ed Summers


• Contact Congress , part of The @unitedstates Project


• Free Law Project — Oral Arguments , by Brian Carver and Michael Lissner


• Legal Citation Hackathon , organized by DC Legal Hackers


• Oversight.io , developed by Eric Mill


• Patent Board Ferret , developed by Trent Ostler


• SCOTUS Mapping Project , developed by Colin Starger


• @SCOTUS_servo , developed by Dave Zvenyach

Click here for more information about the legal hacking movement.

HT @DCLegalHackers

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