CEO & General Counsel
TurnSignl
Bridging Gaps in Access to Legal Services
TurnSignl is an on-demand, real-time service that provides 24/7 legal guidance from an attorney to drivers while their camera records the interaction. When drivers are stopped by law enforcement officers or involved in a car accident, they can access live video chat with an attorney at the press of a button. TurnSignl attorneys are vetted and trained to de-escalate interactions between police, drivers, and passengers, help protect drivers’ civil rights, and ensure that all parties return home safely. Jazz Hampton, TurnSignl’s CEO and General Counsel, has been featured on PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, CBS, and NBC Top Story. Jazz will join us for a fireside chat to discuss innovating to fill gaps in the justice system, de-escalation techniques for tense legal situations, using a client-centered approach to designing and delivering legal services, and more.
Speaker Bio
Jazz Hampton is CEO and General Counsel at TurnSignl and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. TurnSignl is a Minnesota-based tech company that provides real-time legal guidance from an attorney to drivers, all while their camera records the interaction.
Hampton has been featured on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, MSNBC, CBS, NBC Top Story, and was recently named one of Minneapolis-St. Paul’s 40 Under 40 for his work at TurnSignl and in the community, where he sits on the Board of Directors at the Minneapolis Foundation, Catholic Charities Twin Cities, and Great North Innocence Project. He is also a Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain’s Philanthropic Advisory Council member. Finally, Jazz is on the board for the Greater North Innocence Project, and beyond his board position, he is actively representing incarcerated individuals in their legal disputes to prove their innocence and gain their freedom.
Before joining TurnSignl, Hampton was the Director of Diversity and Inclusion and a practicing attorney at Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm with 150+ attorneys, as well as an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, an Emerging Leader within Twin Cities Diversity in Practice, and the Co-Chair of DRI’s Young Lawyer Diversity Committee.