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Please provide details and evidence of your participation.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/lexclinic", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you have a Karma GAP set up? If yes, please provide proof. If not, can you set one up before applying?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Octant aims to become the first self-sustaining global public goods funding ecosystem that balances the common good and individual financial empowerment.\n\nLexClinic aims to be a charity that furthers the goal of law is a public good and is working with network state zuzalu-inspired nodes around the world to establish a network of terra firma dependent and terra firma transcendent enclaves, recognizing how much the EVM settlement layers have already balanced common good with financial empowerment.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how your project contributes to the growth and development of the Octant ecosystem.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Clinic is a community of patrons, some lawyers and law students some entrepreneurs, educating people about web3 law.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project align with the round's focus on community and education within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Get 501(c)3 status. Get 5 more entities 501(c)3 status within 1 year (already got 5 entities that status), streamline the become a patron to be listed on Endaoment pipeline in 1 year, get the journal of legal engineering published in time for Vitalia Safe Harbor II in november.", "hidden": false, "question": "Provide a clear roadmap of your project, detailing future milestones and deliverables. How does this demonstrate your commitment to long-term impact and growth within the Octant ecosystem?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our senior associate at Ixian.tech is running the Clinic's admin and is very knowledgeable in the law, our partnership with law firms is critical to getting our Patron legal services including pro bono, I am working with senior students at TSU law to bring their student body into the clinic. More at https://giveth.io/project/lexclinic .", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your team's expertise and how it contributes to the successful execution of your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Legal templates, improving general legal knowledge. ", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project complement or enhance existing initiatives within the Octant ecosystem rather than competing directly against them?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Patrons buy annual membership and can learn together about the law. Improve the 501(c)3 process and getting a non-profit entity ready to go. Grants from other sources like Endaoment.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your approach to community engagement and how you plan to contribute to a collaborative and constructive funding environment.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Pay students and administrators reasonable wages. Develop out the inverted precedent system described here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nplI7RB3Z9c8vOA2GG7Yo0poNDKOLMTl/view", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you plan to use the funding to maximize your project's ongoing impact within the Octant ecosystem if selected?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have templates and plan to build out more https://github.com/lexclinic/Templates , our legal risk checklist we go through with Patrons, articles in the Journal of Legal Engineering when it's ready.", "hidden": false, "question": "What unique educational content or resources have you created for the Octant ecosystem? How has the community received these? 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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 projects 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: \n\n* We figured out how to further our core value that **law is a public good** but is in a tragedy of the commons that needs to be rejuvenated. \n\n* We will likely be considered an educational charity when we are ready to make the request during our transition to beta, while also doing actual applied work that has a big prosocial impact on prosocial impact projects.\n\n4. Insights:\n\n* After speaking with and learning from our friends at Endaoment, we realized that the accounting requirements for 501(c)3 status are too advanced for our alpha stage, and that we needed an accountable managerial layer in order to meet 501(c)3 requirements.\n\n* Trade schools teach with journeyperson apprenticeships, and in many jurisdictions this is still how lawyers learn to practice law. We can take this applied learning methodology and use it to low-cost help prosocial impact projects in an environment where legal costs are often unethically high.\n\n* We do not offer any confidentiality, and all projects work together in the open. This helps ensure projects do not try, on purpose or accidentally, to get legal services at the Clinic.\n\n* We learned to use the Clinic itself for legal engineering experiments, so-called dogfooding, as a safe way to take on applied legal engineering work. For instance, our [Hats Tree](https://app.hatsprotocol.xyz/trees/10/26) that is continuing to be built as we transition from alpha to beta.\n\nWe now have barred lawyers who graduated from LexClinic alpha! By being apprentices at the Clinic, they are Web3 literate lawyers.\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 successfully 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\n5. We are going to expand our open sourcing of Hats Protocol resources.\n\n* For instance, during this transition from alpha to beta, we have developed a mutual consent Hats system, including the [boilerplate](https://claim.hatsprotocol.xyz/10/26.5.1) legal that handles novel liabilities because of the Remote Procedure Call \"RPC\" nature of \"Ethereum Virtual Machine\" EVM systems.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "lexclinic", "projectTwitter": "lex_clinic"}, "recipient": "0x985ED4631411C7E9715C37cE725547786fBbf384"}}