The Le Hackie Awards is DC Legal Hackers' annual event to celebrate the incredible achievements of the legal hacking community in the Washington DC area.

Le Hackies 1 (2014) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: Fastcase

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Free Law Founders

Legal Hacker of the Year: Dave Zvenyach

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Capitol Bells (Ted Henderson)
• Coding for Lawyers (Dave Zvenyach)
• @CongressEdits (Ed Summers)
• Contact Congress (Electronic Frontier Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, and 150 civic hackers)
• Free Law Project — Oral Arguments (Brian Carver and Michael Lissner)
• Legal Citation Hackathon (DC Legal Hackers with contributions from Alan deLevie, Ben Dixon, Eric Mill, Joshua Auriemma, and Dave Zvenyach)
• oversight.io (Eric Mill)
• Patent Board Ferret (Trent Ostler)
• SCOTUS Mapping Project (Colin Starger)
• @SCOTUS_servo (Dave Zvenyach)

Le Hackies 1 Press

Le Hackie 2 (2015) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: YouTube (Google) for its Fair Use Protection Program

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Open Technology Institute

Legal Hacker of the Year: Kirsten Gullickson

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Clean Slate (Briane Knight)
• CommonForm (Kyle Mitchell and Ansel Halliburton)
• Councilmatic (Datamade)
• DC Council Modern Codification (David Greisen)
• E-regulations (CFPB, Jen Ehlers and/or Will Sullivan of 18F)
• Footnote Citation Analyzer(Wendy Knox-Everette)
• GitHub Licensing (Ben Balter)
• NYT Clerk (Jeremy Bowers)
• SCOTUS diffs (Supreme Court of the United States)
• link (Joshua Tauberer)

Le Hackies 2 Press

Le Hackies 3 (2016) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: Upturn

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: TechCongress

Legal Hacker of the Year: Kat Duffy & Bill Hunt

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Computer Security Tools and Concepts for Lawyers (Kendra Albert)
• Every CRS Report (Daniel Schuman and Joshua Tauberer)
• Law Journal Openness Analysis (Sarah Glassmeyer)
• Legal Informatics Research Network / Democratic Deliberation Dissertation (RC Richards)
• MD Expungement (Matthew Stubenberg)
• Open Beta/DATA Act (Becky Sweger, Kaitlin Devine, Christina Ho)
• Open IRS 990 Data Lawsuit (Carl Malamud)
• PACER Cost Analysis (Free Law Project)
• Perpetual Lineup (Georgetown Law)
• White House Open Source Policy (Alvand Salehi, Matt Bailey, Tony Scott, Cori Zarek)

Le Hackies 3 Press

Le Hackies 4 (2017) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: Mozilla

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Georgetown University Law Center

Legal Hacker of the Year: Brad Heath

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Computer Programming For Lawyers (Paul Ohm, Jonathan Frankle, Ethan Plail, et al)
• "Digital Deceit" (Dipayan Ghosh, Ben Scott)
• Digital Security Training (Matt Mitchell, Alexandra Ulsh, Shauna Dillavou, Wendy, Eric Mill)
• "Evaluating The Effects of Police-worn Body Camera" (The Lab @ DC's Anita Ravishankar, David Yokum)
• FCC comment analysis (Chris Sinchok, Nathaniel Fruchter)
• "From Voicemails To Votes"(Open Gov Foundation)
• Housinginsights.org (Code for DC)
• "'Partisan' Gerrymandering Is Still About Race" (Kate Rabinowitz, Olga Pierce)
• Represent (Propublica's Allison McCartney, Derek Willis, Jeremy Merrill)
• Technology in Pro Bono Week (Washington Council of Lawyers' Aiofe Delargy and Michael Lukens)

Le Hackies 5 (2018) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: Impowerus.com

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Center for Democracy and Technology

Legal Hacker of the Year: Carl Malamud

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Article One (Open Gov Foundation)
• Case.law Access Project (Adam Zeigler; Harvard Innovation Library)
• Canting Tribe NDA (Kyle Mitchell)
• Computers and the Law (American University Washington College of Law)
• Justicetech.info (Jason Tashea and Lindsey Barrett)
• Learned Hands (David Colarusso and Margaret Hagan)
• Raheem.ai (Brandon D. Anderson)
• Right to Repair Advocacy (Kyle Wiens, Kit Walsh; Librarian of Congress and US Copyright Office)
• Sourcelist (Susan Hennessey; Brookings)
• Unsolved Homicide Database (Steven Rich; Washington Post)

Le Hackies 6 (2019) Winners

Le Hackie Company of the Year: Community.Lawyer

Le Hackie Organization of the Year: Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress

Legal Hacker of the Year: Jonathan Pyle

Legal Hacks of the Year:

• Actionable Auditing:Investigating the Impact of Publicly Naming Biased Performance Results ofCommercial AI Products (Inioluwa Deborah Raji & Joy Buolamwini)
• Binding Operational Directive 20-01 (draft), Develop and Publish a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS))
• Caselaw Access Project Case Browser and Trends (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)
• Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc. (Eric F. Citron et al)
• hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp (Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. et al)
• Northwestern Open Access to Court Records Initiative (Northwestern University)
• Rules as Codes Show and Tell (ICAIL)
• The Future of Facial Recognition Is Not Fully Known: Developing Privacy and Security Regulatory Mechanisms for Facial Recognition in the Retail Sector (Elias Wright)
• Turbotax investigation series (Justin Elliott, Propublica)
• UT Legal Services Sandbox (UT Courts)