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# DAO of the Week Notes, LEX DAO

most members are lawyers or smart contract developers

Ross Campbell was a lawyer before making smart contracts
- initial founder
- industry work group/bar association
- aiming to push for best practices
- incubator
- develop
- publish
- legally
- technically

Attract a diverse group of people
- lobbyists
- normal world - web3 link
- anons
- how to develop a smart contract and avoid legal persecution

Process
- internal operating procedure
- spin up sub DAOs
- do something specific
- Cali DAO (Ross)
- Curia (abitration)
- anonimized or smart contract
- how to enforce
- Study group
- tackling legal questions
- does a smart contract work with legal intentions

Funding
- membership fees, like a bar association
- $300/yr
- sweat member fee

Best way to get involved
- Friday
- Legal Hack: go through a smart contract and troubleshoot with legal intentions
- Study Group: Legal clinic collab and topics
- worked with Lobby3

Find a lawyer channel
- for hire

Legal Clinic
- low cost
- grant funding
- clients payments (about $250/wk)

Future
- enterprise consulting

Liberalization of legal services
- for underserved

Law library
- web3 legal resources
- collecting
- building a UI
- subscription service

traditional training is too rudimentary for web3

Gnosis multisig for the treasury

legal review with new regulations

some members are involved in conversations with regulators
- consult with other members

Decentralized Brooklyn, EthDenver

https://gitcoin.co/grants/4811/lexdao-providing-legal-aid-to-impactdaos-funded-by

https://www.lexdao.coop/

https://app.daohaus.club/dao/0x64/0x58234d4bf7a83693dc0815d97189ed7d188f6981