The Women in Law Hackathon has been launched by Caren Ulrick Stacy, founder of Diversity Lab, reports Casey Sullivan, on Bloomberg BNA’s Big Law Business. @BigLawBiz. Stacy also is the founder and CEO of OnRamp Fellowship.

“Its current project entails organizing various teams of lawyers in Big Law to participate in a January-to-June competition: Each team will draw up plans for an innovative project that boosts the advancement and retention of women lawyers in law firms. Stanford Law School is helping coordinate the endeavor,” Sullivan notes. Part of the agenda is to “include senior leadership in diversity efforts.”

Teams will pitch their ideas to a team of judges, who will include Tony West, general counsel of PepsiCo, Lucy Endel Bassli, assistant general counsel of Microsoft, andDavid Perla, president  of Bloomberg Law.

“Bloomberg Law will provide the top three winning teams with prize money—1st place$10,000, 2nd place $7,500 and 3rd place $5,000 —to donate to their non-profit organization of choice that advances women in the legal profession and beyond, according to Stacy.”

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Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business. She is a member of the California bar. Twitter: @MonicaBay  Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.