In its effort to provide contract software utilizing both artificial and human intelligence, Pittsburgh startup LegalSifter has recruited a lawyer and academic who actually wrote the book on contract law.

Ken Adams is now an adviser to LegalSifter, which last year forged its first partnerships with law firms in Pittsburgh and in the United Kingdom. CEO Kevin Miller said he and his colleagues had “admired Ken from afar” for a few years, and more recently reached out to him about joining forces with LegalSifter.