What exactly is a hackathon, anyway?!
Timely post from VAILL team members Emily Pavuluri and Kyle Turner, about legal hackathons and our upcoming Hacking Pro Bono event at Vanderbilt Law School on Saturday, April 12.
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New on the VAILL Substack:
Women+AI: Notes from the W+AI Summit
Wherein we recap all the recaps of the inaugural WAI Summit!
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🚨 Nerdy legal tech alert! 🚨
The HACKING PRO BONO website is *live* and so is registration!
April 12, 2025 @ Vanderbilt Law School
Anyone who cares about scaling access to legal help and wants to have fun is welcome!
hackingprobono.org
Let’s stop talking about the justice gap and start building real solutions. Who’s in? 🙋♀️🙋♂️
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-pr...
🔥 The best ideas will help real people get the legal help they need.
🎯 How to get involved:
✅ Register your interest now - link in comments!
✅ Form a team or join one at the event.
✅ Help reimagine access to justice!
This is NOT your typical legal event. It’s a high-energy, solution-driven hackathon where:
⚡ Teams will collaborate to build innovative solutions.
⚖️ Legal and tech professionals will join forces to rethink pro bono delivery.
💻 No coding skills? No problem! We need diverse minds to make an impact.
lawyers, legal aid leaders, technologists, social scientists, UX designers, access to justice advocates, and other experts, along with anyone who’s experienced the legal system firsthand (the users!) to tackle one big challenge:
👉 How can AI and technology supercharge pro bono legal services? 👈
We know traditional pro bono alone can’t bridge this gap. But what if technology could help multiply our impact?
💡 Enter HACKING PRO BONO. 💡
On Saturday, April 12, 2025, we’re bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of changemakers:
🚀 Calling all changemakers! 🚀
The justice gap is massive: 260 million legal problems arise each year in the U.S., and over half go unresolved. For low-income individuals, the numbers are even worse—only 8% of legal issues get professional help.
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Hot off the press from The AI of Law Substack:
Lab practicum students share their AI manifestos, in the form of advice for law students.
Lots to learn here, no matter where you are on your learning journey 👇
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Friends who signed up for the Women+AI Summit List, check your inbox! We sent out important info today about how you can be part of designing the W+AI.
If you're curious and want details before we post them on the event website www.womenandaisummit.com, it's not too late to sign up for The List 👇
Each day operates independently, so you can jump in anytime. We're sharing a lesson a day for 10 week days, but designing so you can go through the lessons at your own pace.
Find Day 5 here, and sign up if you'd like them to appear in your inbox auto-magically:
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Wrapping up week #1 of Exploring GenAI with VAILL by experimenting with a favorite use of the tech:
➡️ Helping streamline and automate the everyday stuff that slows you down (and often just isn't very much fun) ⬅️
It's not too late to check out our super lightweight e-course via Substack 👇
The W+AI Summit site is live! And will have lots more info very soon
👇
womeandaisummit.com
On February 1, 2025, I am co-hosting the inaugural Women + AI Summit at Vanderbilt Law School.
This is an interdisciplinary, interactive event focused on supporting women in their journeys to engage with, build, and influence the use and development of AI.
How might we do this?
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The only way to know? Give it a try! 🔥
You can follow along via Substack and even sign up to get the remaining 7 days in your inbox! 👇
vaill.substack.com/p/exploring-...
Rolling right along, we're now on Day 3 of Exploring GenAI with VAILL! 🤖
Today, we experiment with using a GenAI tool for content creation, from brainstorming to drafting. 📄
The key here? 🔑
Exploring with a tool to understand how (and if) GenAI can augment content creation in *your* workflow.
Day 2 of Exploring GenAI with us has dropped!
Today, we begin exploring the art 🎨 of prompting. If you're new to GenAI tools, we offer a semi-structured way to start.
And, even if you're an experienced prompter, this is a chance to brush 🖌️ up on your skills!
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Thanks so much for the positive feedback, @christianbrownesq.bsky.social! And for sharing with your followers. 🔥
Finally, we think everything is better with a buddy. 👯♀️
So we shared some ideas on how to explore GenAI with buddies, here 👇
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And before you jump into Day 1, check out this post.
Which we called Day 0. Because, it's before Day 1. 🔥
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👋 Hello and welcome to Day 1 of Exploring GenAI with us, the VAILL team!
Day 1 of 10 launched today on our Substack.
It's a light-lift email course designed for legal folks who are new to GenAI.
You can check it out here 👇
vaill.substack.com/p/exploring-...
Yes, it's a Saturday *and* the first day of a holiday break, and I've spent much of my time today working because I'm so *excited* to be putting finishing touches on a project that's been in the queue and is finally shipping!
VAILL's first e-course 🚀 "Exploring GenAI with Vaill" 🚀
