Schellenberg Wittmer was a sponsor of HackZurich 2019 – Europe's largest Hackathon with 550 participants from more than 60 countries on September 27-29.
The firm's team, comprising of partner Pascal Hubli, senior associates Marcel Jakob, Fabio Elsener and Amalie Wijesundera, associates Floriane Zollinger-Löw and Luka Groselj, trainee lawyer Helen Reinhart and senior IT project manager & business analyst Johana ten Hove represented the LegalTech Chapter in cooperation with Kellerhals Carrard, Niederer Kraft Frey, and Swisslex.
During the 40-hours hacking marathon hackers developed solutions for the challenges arising from the advent of technology in the legal industry. The winning team – "Legislatory" – developed a dashboard for aggregating the status, evolution and the amendments to draft federal bills and more.