I hereby resign my position asa Head of MRU LegalTech Centre. It has been an honor to lead MRU LegalTech Centresince 2018 June. I am proud of what we have accomplished: two new master programs Legaltech LLM and Master of Laws "Law, Technology and Business", series of events, such as Legaltech meetups, annual Legaltech@Vilnius conference, legal hackathons, one-week international bootcamp Access2Justice4Refugees; we had trainees from Turkey, Italy, France, Belarus, Lithuania, and Moldova; our supervised Ph.D. student made the first research, which was presented at IRIS 2020; we created a legaltech ecosystem around the Centre to support Legaltech LLM program; our trainee has won 3 awards at LEXI AI GENERATION – powered by IBM Watson; we have launched two AI powered chatbots to support legal registration process and marketing of Legaltech LLM; we organized a lot of legaltech promotion events at local schools, and even school kids and teachers came to MRU from 5 countries for gamified legaltech&enterprenship lecture; we have presented at Legaltech Lab of Helsinki university,also Tartu university and Vytautas Magnus university, also at Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania (ALAL), Prosecutor General‘s Office and Chamber of notaries; we tried our unicorn idea challenges at Startup Fair, LOGIN, MITA “Looking for innovator” competition and Startup Summit Kaunas 2018.
Moreover, we did it with empty pockets but a hudge enthusiasm ;)
Thank you for the opportunity to serve asa Head of MRU LegalTech Centre.
With gratitude and warm regards,
Ph.D. Martynas Mockus
