Join the GitLaw Standards Committee
Improving access to justice at scale.
The access-to-justice gap
Give back at scale.
The result: 15.4 million legal issues go undertreated every year — costing small businesses £13.6 billion annually. That's nearly £7 million every hour, drained from the businesses least equipped to absorb it.
The templates and standards you build on this committee are open and free for everyone. Every NDA, employment agreement, or commercial contract you help define becomes accessible to the millions of businesses that can't afford a lawyer — structured, plain-language, and ready to use.
This is access to justice at scale. Not one client at a time, but an entire legal layer available to anyone who needs it.
What committee members do
Minimum one hour per year. Committee members join working groups organized by jurisdiction and practice area — NDAs, employment, IP, commercial, data protection, and more.
- Review existing standards and templates — or suggest new ones, if you want to
- Review suggestions from other leaders in the space and approve them
- Participate in async discussions and occasional live working sessions
- Help encode legal intent, fallback logic, and dispute resolution for AI interpretation
Everything is transparent, version-controlled, logged, and attributed. Your legal fingerprints are permanent.
What you get
Visibility. Influence. Access. Career leverage.
Global visibility
Your profile is visible to founders, general counsel, law firms, investors, and AI companies worldwide.
Influence the future of law
You help define what "market standard" means in the AI era — how contracts are interpreted by machines, and how disputes, fallback logic, and intent are encoded.
Early access to GitLaw
Committee members get free, early access to all GitLaw tools and features:
- Test and influence how AI agents behave
- See how thousands of companies are actually contracting
Career leverage
This is where the next generation of legal leaders will be discovered.
What you are not
Clear boundaries. No grey areas. As a committee member, you are not:
- Giving legal advice to end users
- Taking on liability
- Representing clients
- Practicing law through GitLaw
You are contributing to open, public legal infrastructure — defining standards and templates that help everyone access clearer, more structured agreements.
GitLaw is a technology platform, not a law firm.
Is this pro bono?
Yes — in the same way standards bodies and open-source projects are.
This is professional volunteer leadership, not billable client work. Committee members contribute their expertise to open legal infrastructure, just like contributors to the W3C, IETF, or Linux Foundation.
What you invest is time and expertise. What you receive is a direct role in defining how law works for the next 10 years.
How it works
Async-first. Transparent. Built like open source. Once you're pre-approved:
- 1
Join a working group
Choose your area — NDAs, employment, IP, commercial, data protection, or emerging categories. We'll share profiles of the other lawyers in the group first, so you know who you're working with.
- 2
Review and propose
Contribute through structured review — review standards and templates, flag issues, and suggest improvements.
- 3
Discuss and iterate
Participate in async threads and occasional live sessions with your working group.
- 4
Ship standards
Approved templates and clauses go live, used by AI agents and businesses globally.
Everything runs on version control. Every comment, edit, and approval is logged and attributed. Your contributions compound over time.
