Community Guidelines
For members: how to represent yourself in public, how to conduct yourself in LegalQuants channels, and how membership is verified.
See also: About LegalQuants · Brand Guidelines
COMMUNITY GUIDELINES
For members. These form part of the Member Terms in our Terms of Use and are enforceable by removal.
What membership means. Being a member of the LegalQuants community means you have been admitted to the LegalQuants community. It does not make you part of the LegalQuants company. You may take part in the community and accurately describe your membership. Membership does not create employment, compensation, a company title, delegated authority or permission to act under the LegalQuants name. Official roles and paid engagements exist only when separately agreed in writing.
Representing yourself in public
Members speak as members. Only the LegalQuants team speaks for LegalQuants. The following rules apply whenever you refer to LegalQuants (or LQ), the LegalQuants Community, or the LegalQuants Residency in any public setting — including biographies, LinkedIn or other social profiles, introductions in chat groups, event descriptions, podcasts, media interviews, marketing materials, and pitches to third parties.
In these Guidelines, the LegalQuants team means the two co-founders and any person they have expressly authorised in writing for a particular purpose. Being a LegalQuants Residency mentor, a speaker, a contributor or a participant does not by itself give you authority to speak for LegalQuants.
What you may say
- If someone asks what LegalQuants is: it finds, vets and trains lawyers who build their own tech to practise law.
- That you are a member of the LegalQuants community.
- That you completed, or are enrolled in, the LegalQuants Residency, if you did.
- That you passed LQ Assess, if you did.
- That you are an LegalQuants Residency mentor, only if the LegalQuants team has formally appointed you to that role in writing.
- A link to your public profile at legalquants.com/community.
What you may not say
- That you hold any operational or leadership role at LegalQuants or in any LegalQuants sub-brand (LegalQuants Community, LegalQuants Residency, LQ Assess, or any other) — including titles such as lead, co-lead, head, director, manager, organizer, co-organizer, host, coordinator, ambassador, chapter lead, city lead, community lead, program lead, moderator, or administrator of any LegalQuants program, event, group, meetup, chat, channel, or initiative — unless the LegalQuants team has appointed you to that specific role in writing.
- That you hold a LegalQuants-affiliated title you have created, adopted or published yourself, including a variation of the titles above or a newly coined title that is not listed above. If the LegalQuants team has not given you a title in writing, you do not hold a title at LegalQuants. Permission to undertake an activity is not permission to use a title in connection with that activity.
- That you run, lead, own, co-own, operate, manage, host, organize, or convene any LegalQuants program, event, group, meetup, chat, channel, or initiative, unless the LegalQuants team has appointed you to do so in writing. For example: “I run the LegalQuants Community”, “I run the LegalQuants Residency program”, “I co-own LQ events”, “I organize the LegalQuants Community in [city or specialty]”, “I lead the LQ [group name] chapter” are not permitted statements for members.
- That you are an employee, contractor, staff member, representative, spokesperson, agent, or officer of LegalQuants. LegalQuants currently has two cofounders and no employees; anybody else describing themselves this way is misrepresenting.
- Language that positions you as speaking on behalf of LegalQuants — for example, using “we” or “our” in reference to LegalQuants or any of its sub-brands, programs, decisions, events, or plans. Members speak as members (“I am a member of the LegalQuants community”), not as insiders (“our LegalQuants Community”, “our LegalQuants Residency”, “our program”).
- That you represent LegalQuants to any third party, media outlet, client, sponsor, partner, regulator, or in any commercial negotiation, unless you have received formal written approval from admin@legalquants.com for that specific engagement.
Groups, events, and derivative names
- You are free to meet, socialise and collaborate with other members in your personal capacities. A gathering does not become a LegalQuants event because several of the people attending are members. Unless the LegalQuants team has expressly approved otherwise in writing, such a gathering must not use LegalQuants branding, be described as an official LegalQuants event, suggest sponsorship or endorsement by LegalQuants, or use an LQ-affiliated title for the person arranging it.
- You may not create, host, convene, moderate, or brand any group, chat, channel, publication, meetup, workshop, conference, hackathon, or other event under the LegalQuants name, the LQ name, the LegalQuants Community name, the LegalQuants Residency name, or any derivative or compound (for example: [X]Quants, LQ [City], LQ [Practice Area], LQ [Demographic]) — in any medium, including WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Substack, LinkedIn, in person, or otherwise — without formal written approval from admin@legalquants.com.
- Any approval is limited to the specific activity, purpose, period and permissions stated in writing. Approval to organise, host or assist with one activity does not make you a LegalQuants representative, create an ongoing role, or authorise you to organise further activities under the LegalQuants name. Additional programs, sub-groups, spin-offs and successor events each require a new written approval.
- If the LegalQuants team tells you that a public description, title, profile, event listing, group name or other representation is inaccurate or unauthorised, you must promptly correct or remove it. We may also ask third-party platforms to correct inaccurate affiliation information.
- You may not use the LegalQuants or LQ logo, wordmark, or visual identity outside of your own public profile page without formal written approval. The Logo and visual identity section above sets out the full logo rules.
Enforcement: Breach of these representation rules is grounds for immediate removal from LegalQuants and from all LQ channels, and for removal of the member's public profile from legalquants.com/community. These rules form part of the Member Terms in our Terms of Use.
Community conduct
These rules apply to all members across every LegalQuants surface: WhatsApp, Slack, Substack, GitHub, LQBrain, LQDigest, LQClaw, LQMCP, video calls, in-person events, and anywhere else.
a. Chatham House Rule
You may share what is discussed in LQ channels — a tool that came up, a workflow, a debate, an insight. You may not attribute what was said to who said it, in any medium, ever. This applies to messages, screenshots, direct quotes, and paraphrases, whether in public or in private.
b. Respect stealth members
Some members participate anonymously or under handles. You may not try to identify them, ask where they work, publish their details, or share their identity outside LQ channels.
c. Confidentiality of access
Access codes, passcodes, bearer tokens, invite links, and private URLs for LegalQuants resources (LQBrain, LQDigest, LQMCP, LQClaw, private Substack, Slack workspaces, WhatsApp channels, and any other) are for members and paid subscribers only. Do not share them, publish them, or grant access to anyone else. Unauthorised disclosure of access or of the content behind it is grounds for permanent removal from LegalQuants.
d. Respect personal space
Badgering, harassment and stalking are not tolerated, in LQ channels or in the direct messages that follow from them. If a member does not reply, that is an answer. Members come from many countries, legal systems and backgrounds, and prejudice on grounds of nationality, race, gender, religion or anything comparable has no place here. Membership puts you in reach of senior lawyers, partner organisations and the opportunities we bring in. Use that to build and to help other members. Do not use it to extract.
e. No political agenda
Discuss law, regulation and policy as they bear on our work, including where the subject is politically charged. Do not use LQ channels to campaign for a party, a candidate or an unrelated political cause.
f. Attribution of collective work
LegalQuants distils contributions from members into published products (LQDigest, LQBrain, LQMCP, and others). Contributions are anonymised by default; a member is not identified in a published product without their permission. The full licence and attribution model is clauses B1 and B3 of our Member Terms.
g. No cold-pitching other members
Sharing what you have built is encouraged and expected. Using LQ channels or the member directory as a lead list to cold-pitch commercial services, solicit clients, recruit for your firm, or sell products to other members is not permitted. If you are unsure whether a message crosses that line, ask admin@legalquants.com before sending it.
Enforcement: Breach of any community conduct rule in this section is grounds for immediate removal from LegalQuants and from all LQ channels, per the Member Terms in Part B of our Terms of Use.
The LegalQuants team
LegalQuants is run by two cofounders. We do not have any employees at this time. Only the cofounders hold @legalquants.com email addresses; individual @legalquants.com addresses are not issued to members, LegalQuants Residency mentors or participants, LQ Assess candidates, or any other non-employee. Anybody presenting themselves as a LegalQuants employee, or corresponding from an @legalquants.com address other than the cofounders', is misrepresenting.
Any inquiries — including approval requests for the representation rules above and asset requests for the logo rules above — should be sent to admin@legalquants.com.
How do I become a member of the LegalQuants community?
There are three routes in: complete the LegalQuants Residency, pass LQ Assess, or receive an invitation from Jamie Tso or Raymond Sun. There is no certified Legal Quant or LQ designation at the moment. We charge no membership fee.
Membership and contribution
Membership does not require you to perform services for LegalQuants. Members are encouraged, but not required, to take part in discussions, collaborative builds, LQ Labs initiatives, LQ Assess benchmark tasks, events and other community activities. Taking part is voluntary unless LegalQuants and the member separately agree in writing to a specific paid or formally appointed engagement.
We may periodically review inactive memberships because the community is intended for practising and engaged legal quants. Taking part in community activities does not create employment, an engagement, an organisational position, authority to act for LegalQuants, or an entitlement to compensation.
Who is a member and who is not?
A member of the LegalQuants community is someone admitted through one of those three routes. You can browse the public directory at legalquants.com/community. Some members are stealth and do not appear there, so absence from the directory does not by itself mean someone is not a member.
A member of the LegalQuants community is not a LegalQuants employee, contractor, agent or spokesperson. We find and vet legal quants at the point of admission. We do not supervise, endorse or warrant any member's work for a client, and admission is not a professional qualification or a certification.
Members, contributors, appointed roles and paid engagements
There is an important distinction between being a member, contributing voluntarily, being appointed to a specific role, and being engaged by LegalQuants for paid work.
Members. Admission to the LegalQuants community gives you membership only. Membership does not give you any title, office, management responsibility or authority within LegalQuants.
Member contributions. Members may voluntarily organise informal discussions, help other members, contribute ideas or code, make introductions, or otherwise take part in the community. Doing so does not, however frequently or substantially, create a LegalQuants role or appointment.
Appointed roles. A LegalQuants role exists only where LegalQuants expressly appoints a person to that specific role in writing. The appointment will identify its title, scope and duration. No role arises by implication, past practice, level of contribution, or because a member has performed similar activities over time.
Paid engagements. Where LegalQuants wishes to engage somebody to provide services for compensation, that arrangement will be separately agreed in writing. Community participation should not be understood as a promise of future engagement or compensation.
Membership is discretionary
We may suspend or end membership where we reasonably determine that continued membership is inconsistent with these Guidelines, the purposes of the community, professional standards, the protection of other members, or the trust required for participation. We may also remove inactive memberships. Membership is not a permanent entitlement.
Verifying membership or employment
To check whether someone is a member of the LegalQuants community, see our public directory at legalquants.com/community. For any other verification, including employment, contact admin@legalquants.com.
Questions about how to describe LegalQuants, use its name, or request logo assets? Write to admin@legalquants.com.