IE Law School

Law School´s Global League and Ontier, in collaboration with IE and South Summit, have recently launched the Global Legaltech Venture Days, a startup competition that focuses on legal technologies that have a positive impact on major challenges faced by legal operators or legal systems with the aim to improve their operations and promote the cause of justice.

This legaltech startup competition consists of three regionals that lead to a final competition. The first Legaltech Venture Day took place in Singapore, where the Malaysian startup EasyLaw, committed to making law efficient, affordable and simple, was crowned winner. The following Legaltech Venture Days will take place in Chicago on June 15 in collaboration with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and in México on June 20, in collaboration with ITAM.

In each regional event, a group of selected Legaltech startups will pitch 7-minute presentations before a panel of judges, innovators, legaltech experts and leading law firm partners who will ask questions and analyze the viability of the projects. From this initial and regional cohort, the judges will choose a winner to enter a second and final round, which will take place in Madrid during the Law Schools Global League Annual Conference on July 25. The three regional winners will be invited to Madrid, all expenses paid, to compete at the Global Legaltech Venture Day final on July 25.

IE Law School delivers top-notch, innovative, globally oriented and multidisciplinary legal education that breaks traditional barriers to shape the legal professionals of tomorrow.The School benefits from an intensive focus on technology in terms of content and learning methods, promotes an entrepreneurial mindset in students to transform the practice of law, and generates relevant knowledge of business-related areas to create value.