The CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2018 will be @ the Paul Brest Hall at Stanford University on April 5.

In no particular order, we’re previewing the upcoming presentations at CodeX FutureLaw. Information about how to attend is at the bottom of this post!  Agenda. Registration.

 

 

 

THE TITLE
“Legal Innovation Lightning Round 2.”

THE TIME
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

THE PRESENTERS

 

Pablo Arredondo: Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer, Casetext; CodeX Fellow.

Pablo’s work focuses on civil litigation in common law jurisdictions, with an emphasis on how litigators access and assemble the law. Pablo is a graduate of Stanford Law School and of the University of California at Berkeley. Before attending Stanford Law School, Pablo worked for a year at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, focusing on the legal aspects of the genetic modification of organisms by corporations. Pablo is a member of the New York and California bar. He has represented leading technology companies in patent litigation at both the district court and appellate level.

 

Owen Byrd:  Chief Evangelist & General Counsel, Lex Machina

Owen provides thought leadership in the domain of Legal Analytics and its application to the practice of law, via speaking engagements, publications, webcasts, blogging, social media, and press. He also assists with sales, marketing and customer success, and manages Lex Machina’s operations, including legal, finance, and human resources.

Owen has previously founded and led data-centric software, real estate and non-profit ventures and operated his own law firm. He is a member of the California Bar and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. from Colorado College. He has spoken extensively to legal audiences, primarily focusing on the use of data to improve legal decision-making.

 

Carlos Gamez: Senior Director, Innovation for Legal Business at Thomson Reuters’ Legal Business.

In Gamez’s role, he partners with different people inside and outside of the enterprise to define the innovation strategy, and to execute innovation priorities through strategic projects with the potential to drive organic growth. Projects include: running ideation and innovation campaigns and challenges, defining and funding collaborative research opportunities, advising on and performing proof of concepts, and developing and leveraging relationships for co-creation with customers and industry partners.

Carlos joined Thomson Reuters under its leadership development program where he performed roles across Strategy and Product Strategy. After the program, he served as the Chief of Staff to the General Counsel and as the lead for legal department operations. Later, he was also part of the Corporate Development group, where he led the evaluation and execution of acquisitions of companies.  Read more here.

 

Oliver Goodenough: CodeX Affiliated Faculty; Co-Director, Center for Legal Innovation and Professor of Law, Vermont Law School.

Oliver is an authority on several emerging areas of law. He has pioneered the application of technology to legal processes, particularly in the field of contracts and business organizations. His goal is to create “digital institutions” within which reliable economic life can take place. He has helped Vermont and Nevada shape digital business organization initiatives — a direct application of these principles to law reform in the U.S. In Vermont, he was a principal author of legislative reports on Blockchain and other aspects of FinTech that have led to legislation giving institutional recognition to distributed ledger technology and business.

At the national level, he has collaborated with the Office of Financial Research at the Department of the Treasury to explore the possibility of automating financial instruments. Professor Goodenough’s other fields of research include entertainment law and applications of neuroscience and behavioral biology to legal questions. His OFR paper with Mark Flood on “Contract as Automaton: The Computational Representation of Financial Agreements” has been widely cited as providing a conceptual foundation for computational law. This work has led to the Legal Specification Protocol initiative, in which he has taken an active role.

In the business world, he is a co-founder and Director of Skopos Labs, Inc., a company that applies machine-learning text analytics to legislative and regulatory enactments and their relevance to companies and industry segments.  Read more here.

 

John Polansky is a student at Stanford Law School.

John holds a PhD in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California and has recently served as Assistant Professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, in its Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering; prior to that, he was adjunct faculty in mathematics at Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

John worked on the Stanford Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) Litigation Dataset, the first-ever publicly available database to track comprehensively the ways practicing, non-practicing, and patent assertion entities claim patent ownership rights in litigation; he is a co-author of the project report.

 

 

April 5

Registration here.

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5: 30 p.m. @ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall  (555 Salvatierra Walk), Stanford, Calif. 94305 United States.
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Agenda.

MCLE Credit: 5.5 General Hours.

Also: “Legal Tech Founders: Then and Now.”  April 4, 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.

Compiled by Monica Bay, CodeX Fellow.

Cover images: clipart.com