This website, and subsequent paraphernalia was born at the Global Legal Hackathon at Orrick office in San Francisco, on 23rd. Februray 2019.
The initial challenge to work on was “How to craft a wining litigation strategy??” However a quick search on Google for keyword “litigation strategy” revealed that
“Thomson Reuters Westlaw Edge” have done monumental work by compiling/data-mining litigation analytics, to help crafting a winning strategy with data-driven insights.
Of course, there is NO need to re-invent the wheel, so the next challenge picked was “Enable small legal professionals to compete with bigger players”. Now we are living in the age of co-operation, so we replaced the word “compete” with the word “cooperate” because cooperation is also a kind of competition. When two parties cooperate, both parties are winners BUT one party wins more than the other. So, while cooperating, both parties “compete” to win more share of the “common pie”.
Once the challenge of “cooperation facilitation between small and bigger legal player” was selected, we have to determine where are the small & big legal professionals situated. That led to the large English-speaking legal professional’s population in South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Nepal. For bigger legal professional groups, North American lawyers were undoubtedly the first candidate.
While researching the “Litigation Strategy” challenge, it was observed that analytics gathered by artificial intelligence are very useful BUT legal profession affects real flesh and blood human beings, and in order to make a humane decision, the analytics should pass through human intelligence. Now this work of “human intelligence” is time consuming and it is “the time” which big, busy law professionals does not have enough of.
Thus this idea of “Research based eCommerce” between bare-foot lawyers of South Asia, and rich, fat lawyers of North America was conceived. Because of C2C business model, this was appropriately named as “Uber Lawyer”. In German language, I think, Uber means something like “Super”. Indeed, with this cooperation platform, every lawyer, can become a super lawyer.