Jameson Dempsey

Jameson Dempsey co-founded DC Legal Hackers in 2013, and has worked to expand the Legal Hackers movement worldwide. The group is a community of academics, attorneys, policy makers, and developers that meets to discuss and develop ways to use technology to enhance legal practice and policymaking. When he is not working with Legal Hackers, Jameson is an associate at Kelley Drye’s New York office, where he focuses on telecommunications, data privacy, and information technology matters. Jameson’s work has earned him a recommendation in Legal500 in the area of data protection and privacy. While still in law school, Jameson worked with the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, which assists unfunded start-up companies on a pro bono basis.