Computational Law: Developing a Common Language

Benjamin Whetsell is the Co-Founder of Paper Software.

Benjamin works on Turner’s and Contract Tools’ design. He is admitted to the bars of New York and Washington DC. He was an associate at Fried Frank in New York City, where he worked on financing, mergers, and fund structures for clients such as Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.

He holds a BBA from the University of Michigan Business School and a JD from Columbia Law School.

Jay Leib is responsible for the Reveal platform’s innovation and strategy and tasked with accelerating the adoption of Reveal’s Brainspace and NexLP artificial intelligence technology. Jay is the founder and former CEO of NexLP, which Reveal acquired in August of 2020. Prior to founding NexLP, Jay served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Relativity. He has more than two decades of experience in the technology field and has worked on some of the largest eDiscovery and fraud projects in the world. Jay holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelors from Columbia College.

Itai Gurari is the VP of Research and Development at Fastcase. Itai is also the cofounder and CEO of Judicata and previously worked as an associate at Jones Day and a software engineer at Google.

Eric is a partner in DLA Piper’s Litigation Group. In his practice, Eric specializes in the assessment, quantification and sale of litigation risk through predictive modeling and litigation analytics, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of such services to provide industry leading manufacturers, sellers and distributors with strategic advice on how to avoid and manage risk throughout the world. He has represented nearly every class of manufacturer in both the litigation and transactional arenas, and has built a reputation for helping clients avoid, mitigate and manage pending and potential litigation risks through predictive analytics, due diligence, deal structuring, pre-marketing risk assessment, and the development of strategic solutions to acquired risks. As Chair of the firm’s Litigation Innovation Committee, and Vice Chair of the Innovation Review Board, Eric is also responsible for evaluating, creating and implementing innovative products, processes and solutions that are fundamentally transforming the way in which law is practiced.

Kevin oversees the legal function of the Marketing Cloud and Communications and Retail Global Business Units at Oracle. He is responsible for all corporate and commercial activities, including acquisitions, strategic alliances, partnerships, and the spectrum of technology transactions (software, cloud/SaaS, hardware, consulting, outsourcing). He also partners with executive management and key stakeholders to support the product development lifecycle, monitor and mitigate organizational risks, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements worldwide (including data privacy), and resolve disputes with customers, partners, and vendors.

Kevin has focused on the telecommunications, media, technology, and financial services industries during his career. He has significant knowledge of the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in these heavily regulated and highly competitive industries, including in new and emerging markets. In addition, his tenure at Oracle has provided in-depth insight into disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, big data/analytics, e-commerce, and social media, as well as the data privacy and security issues implicated by their rapid adoption.