{"title": "LexClinic [alpha-to-beta]", "logoImg": "bafkreicsifgapv3venytodrkfvicb4vmtxmid54dkbudgcu4h27z3ik2sq", "website": "https://lex.clinic", "bannerImg": "bafkreihn3rtwnx4tkd4tqj5k3hpa7lm3dlwjh4mijpcu3ru75ljrdm5qgq", "createdAt": 1722952113717, "userGithub": "lex-clinic", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..8TPn8JNXC31kuUWvrZRqt0Q_YM9pX0RvkZcTksaNsSJ6BfYo1mX2FzFtSDACMwLXTsdjSpGwVFDSWD_D9dxxCg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-06T13:48:13.703Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-06T13:48:13.703Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-04T13:48:13.703Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x985ED4631411C7E9715C37cE725547786fBbf384", "hash": "v0.0.0:NTH4Wii0DsnRjDNuiNpH5cyUHyXiZbTJ7DRR2upqwv0=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#lexclinic#173394432"}}}, "description": "# past\nLexClinic alpha was a successful minimum viable potential-charity:\n\n1. We walked many new web3 projects through our $300 legal risk checklist and 2 hour legal information session based on the project's answers to the checklist:\n\n* This enabled these web3 projects to make informed decisions about their legal future. \n\n* It also taught law students how to properly interview people about their legal needs and how to expand past not just thinking rationally about what the law means, which is taught in law schools, but also thinking creatively about how to ethically achieve the project's goals.\n\n* After going through the checklist, many projects progressed onto starting the 501(c)3 charity designation process with the pro bono support of one of the best law firms in our industry.\n\n2. We did some open source general legal research at low cost:\n\n* An obvious value-add since law students already spend quite a bit of their time doing legal research. The Clinic's research opportunities exposed them to key players in our industry as well as key concepts in our industry.\n\n3. Big picture: we figured out how to further law is a public good, likely to be considered an educational charity, while also doing actual applied work.\n\n* One of the key insights was that trade schools teach with journeyperson apprenticeships. \n\n* Another insight, as that we do not offer any confidentiality, which helps projects.\n\n* There are now have barred lawyers who graduated from LexClinic alpha.\n\n# present\nWe are now transitioning to LexClinic beta:\n\n1. We have the Ixian Tech law firm managing the Clinic, so that we can ensure projects do not detrimentally rely on students.\n\n* One of the problems we experienced during the alpha stage was that we should in no way interfere with student academic performance while also being responsible with projects.\n\n2. The Clinic is now a $300/yr subscription or invite Patronage managed by Hats Protocol.\n\n* This makes onboarding simpler, and in theory should be easier to build out as a protocol so we can continue being as decentralized as is reasonable.\n\n3. Houses are deemphasized for now.\n\n* Critical mass was not big enough in the alpha stage to develop a 'surname legacy' culture, but we did successful integrate existing projects as houses into the Clinic that wanted to use the Clinic's protocol for business logic, so we'll continue doing that.\n\n4. We are going to administer the [inverted-precedent](https://github.com/lexclinic/Grants) legal engineering grant invention.\n\n* The Clinic's test pilots should be a good fit for properly testing this important rough consensus and wisdom cultivating over time concept. \n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "lexclinic"}