Code & Counsel's Legal AI Community Hackathon: Building Common Ground

Registration: Free and open to the public; advance registration required Eligibility: Ages 18+ Code & Counsel’s Legal AI Community Hackathon: Building Common Ground is a three-hour public-interest design sprint focused on how artificial intelligence, paired with legal knowledge and meaningful human review, can help address everyday legal and administrative challenges facing underserved communities. Participants from legal, technology, product, design, public service, and community backgrounds are welcome. No coding experience is required. Attendees may register individually and be assigned to a team or register with others. Teams of four to five participants will develop a practical concept, workflow, prototype, or demonstration aimed at making legal information, processes, or services easier to understand and navigate. Projects may explore issues such as housing stability, employment and income, consumer protection, public benefits, access to essential services, document organization, deadline awareness, and connections to qualified legal or community assistance. Each team will be asked to identify where AI can help, where legal knowledge is required, and where a lawyer, advocate, caseworker, or other human professional must remain involved. *This is not a legal clinic, and participants should not bring confidential client information, active case files, or personally identifiable information. All projects should use fictional, synthetic, de-identified, public, or properly licensed materials.