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Bootlaw: free legal seminar for startups from Winston&Strawn

Posted by evgeny on 23 August, 2008 in Uncategorized

Techcrunch UK recently published a post by Songkick’s founder, Ian Hogarth, on the lack of hacker meetups in the UK. No doubt about it, there are few regular meetups and even fewer good ones, where you can meet all the interesting people from the startup industry.

Of course there is DrinkTank, which is the meetup for startup founders and Minibar, where early-stage companies can pitch to the audience but it’s not enough.

Yesterday’s Minibar was sponsored by Winston & Strawn, an international law firm with offices across the world, including, of course, London. They specialise in technology and they’re quite happy to work with startups even before they raise huge amounts of money. And yes, they’re really friendly!

Last night, Danvers Baillieu from Winston & Strawn announced Bootlaw, “a free boot camp for internet and digital professionals who want to learn more about the legal issues they face”. As far as I know, this is the first and the only free event on legal issues for startups organised by a City law firm. The demand is high: a few people joined the group on meetup.com minutes after if was created.

Generally, legal issues are a problem for startup founders because in most cases they’ve got technology or business background, so I will not be surprised if this event will be heavily oversubscribed. I’m definitively looking forward to it.