- Dan Broderick
Dan is the CEO and co-founder of BlackBoiler, an AI-assisted contract review platform that uses proprietary deep learning and natural language processing to speed up the process of high-volume contract review.
As a former associate with Am Law 100 firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Dan specialized in negotiation, related disputes, and developing more efficient processes for contract review. He provides significant domain expertise as a contract attorney with more than 10 years of experience. His research tasks include creating various annotations standards, training annotators, and reviewing experimental results. Along with other members of BlackBoiler’s senior research team, Dan conceptualizes, plans, and tracks BlackBoiler’s research efforts. Dan earned his J.D. From American University, Washington College of Law and received a Bachelor of Science in interdisciplinary engineering and management from Clarkson University. - Dr. Seth Dobrin
Dr. Seth Dobrin is a renowned artificial intelligence (AI) and data science leader known for his transformative work. At Monsanto, he revolutionized agriculture by integrating AI to enhance farming through precision agriculture. As IBM's first Global Chief AI Officer, he led the IBM Data Science Elite Team, driving ethical AI development and diversity across multiple projects. His leadership was instrumental in IBM's AI and data transformation.
Author: "AI iQ for a Human-Focused Future: Strategy, Talent, and Culture" https://www.amazon.com/AI-Human-Focused-Future-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/103278203X
He continued his journey by founding Silicon Sands Venture Studio and Qantm AI, championing a human-focused approach centered on ethical AI in business. His work at Qantm AI guides Fortune 500 companies and Private Equity firms in developing responsible AI strategies. A strong advocate for diversity and against technological colonialism, he supports organizations like WLDA and Wonder Women Tech. His multidisciplinary expertise, combining molecular and cellular biology with industry experience, sets AI leadership benchmarks, shaping its future to be responsible, ethical, and inclusive. - Ed Walters
Ed Walters is the Chief Strategy Officer of vLex and the co-founder of Fastcase, a legal publishing company based in Washington, D.C. Fastcase and vLex merged in April 2023 to form one of the world’s fastest-growing legal publishers. Its global law library serves more than 3 million subscribers and includes the law of more than 100 countries in a single platform, comprising more than 1 billion documents.
Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling, in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the Business Software Alliance, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. His practice focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and intellectual property litigation.
Ed earned an A.B. in government from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He served as an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. From 1996-97, he served as a judicial clerk with the Hon. Emilio M. Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Ed worked in The White House from 1991-93 in the Office of Media Affairs and the Office of Presidential Speechwriting.
He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Law School / Cornell Tech, where he teaches The Law of Robots. He serves on the board of directors of Lexum, Pro Bono Net, and Public.Resource.org. Ed serves on the Leaders Counsel for the Legal Services Corporation. He is the author and editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018) and a contributing author to Legal Informatics (Cambridge University Press 2021). - Caitlin Moon Caitlin
"Cat" Moon serves as Founding Co-Director of the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL) and is the Director of Innovation Design for the Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) at Vanderbilt Law School. In these roles, she designs the curriculum for both the JD program and for the PoLI Institute, providing interactive training in legal innovation to practicing legal professionals. She also founded the Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI), which brings together experts across legal, technology, and other disciplines in collaborative legal innovation projects. Professor Moon currently teaches Legal Problem Solving, a course in human-centered design for law, as well as AI in Law Practice, Law as a Business, Legal Operations, Leading in Law, Data in Law Practice, and Designing a Life in the Law.
Professor Moon’s current academic research on AI in law practice centers on how legal professionals can use AI and other technologies to innovate the delivery of legal services. For over a decade, she has been studying the 21st-century competencies for legal professionals in combination with lawyer thriving and achieving true diversity and inclusion across the profession. She is a co-creator of the Delta Model for lawyer competency and Design Your Delta, a playbook for holistic professional development grounded in human-centered design principles and methods.
In addition to her role at Vanderbilt, Professor Moon works with law firms, legal departments, and law schools globally to bring a human-centered design perspective to re-imagining the delivery of legal services, lawyer formation, and inclusion across the profession. She regularly speaks and facilitates workshops across the United States and Europe on the application of human-centered design and to realize innovation in both the legal profession and legal education.
Professor Moon is a Fellow and Trustee of the College of Law Practice Management, serves on the advisory board for the Justice Tech Association as well as Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Innovation Lab, and is a member of the leadership team for Vanderbilt Medical School’s Medical Innovators Development Program. She has been recognized in the inaugural 2016 class of ABA’s Women of Legal Tech and by Fastcase 50. Professor Moon also is a co-organizer of Music City Legal Hackers, part of the global Legal Hackers community. - Ron Lazebnik
Ron Lazebnik is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. He is the Academic Director of Fordham’s Center on Law and Information Policy, the Director of Fordham’s JD Externship Program, and the Director of the school’s Law and Technology Clinic. Prof. Lazebnik's academic and scholarly interests include IP law, information law, and the intersection of law and technology. Prof. Lazebnik is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and holds a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University. - Christopher Savage
Adjunct Professor Chris Savage teaches Information Privacy. Chris is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine. After serving for many years as Co-Chair of the firm's Communications Practice, Chris now focuses his practice on privacy and data security matters. Before joining Davis Wright Tremaine, Chris led the Telecom Practice at Cole, Raywid & Braverman, LLP after several years as a senior attorney with Bell Atlantic Network Services Inc.
Chris currently counsels clients in communications and data-centric industries on complex privacy and data security issues. His most recent article, published in the Stanford Technology Law Review, is entitled, Managing the Ambient Trust Commons: The Economics of Online Consumer Information Privacy, 22 Stan. Tech. Rev. 95 (2019)
When he's not teaching, Chris enjoys My running, hiking, and reading (mainly, these days, history and science fiction). He convenes at least weekly with a number of friends for informal "adult education" classes. Recent topics include Reconstruction and Jim Crow, a history of Eastern Europe, an exploration of the lives of people of the Steppes (Mongols and their earlier compatriots), neuroscience, and basic structural engineering. Professor Savage's teaching is an integral part of the CICR program.
In his words, "Every organization, large or small, needs to comply with complicated and overlapping rules protecting the privacy of consumers, employees and others. I'm proud that CUA's Compliance, Investigations & Corporate Responsibility program includes Information Privacy Law as part of the grounding needed to ensure that organizations fulfill their legal responsibilities."
