Data-Driven Lawyering: Maturing Best Practices to Combine Firm and Public Data

Tim Fox leads the practice intelligence function at Ogletree Deakins and is a pioneer in the legal technology industry. He joined Ogletree Deakins after serving as Chief Product and Information Officer for LegalMation, a legal technology startup, where he led the product, artificial intelligence, and support teams in developing LegalMation’s award-winning software solutions. Fox is also an experienced litigator, practicing in the patent and complex commercial litigation areas for more than seven years, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he teaches Legal Writing and Reasoning. In his leadership role, Fox develops and implements a data strategy that supports the use of technology and data to answer key questions, develop tools, dashboards, and data visualizations, and create actionable insights.

Logan Beirne is a Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Matterhorn Transactions, Inc., a legal information services company that provides transaction term language and market trend analytics across the US, UK, and Canada.

Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A coder since 1985 and for the web since 1995, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has led teams in legal-software development. An appointee of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, he has helped recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules, and policies — all related to connected and autonomous vehicles.

Damien is Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association's working group on AI and the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL). At SALI, the legal data standard he helps lead, Damien develops and has greatly expanded the taxonomy of over 12,000 legal tags that matter, helping the legal industry's development of AI, analytics, and interoperability. At vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm — Damien helps lead the design, development, and expansion of various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) to improve legal workflows and to power legal data analytics.