Curriculum Vitae

Damien Riehl

Lawyer · technologist · builder — working where courts, code, and the rule of law meet.

Experience

Solutions Champion

Clio

Builds legal technology and travels the world discussing AI for law. Parses substantive law — cases, statutes, regulations, motions, briefs, pleadings, and orders — for 100+ countries, and integrates it with the business of law. Continuation of the same team across Fastcase → vLex → Clio since July 2019.

Vice President, Solutions Champion

vLex

Led the design, development, and expansion of products integrating AI (GPT) into legal workflows and analytics.

VP, Litigation Workflow & Analytics Content · Managing Director, Product Workflow · Managing Director, Legal Research Platform

Fastcase

VP, Litigation Workflow & Analytics Content (Dec 2021 – May 2023); Managing Director, Product Workflow (Jan – Dec 2021); Managing Director, Fastcase Legal Research Platform (Jul 2019 – Jan 2021).

Vice President & Engagement Manager

Stroz Friedberg (an Aon company)

Cybersecurity, incident response, and digital forensics — leading world-scale investigations.

Senior Product Strategist (Director level)

Thomson Reuters

AI / ML / NLP for the legal industry and the judiciary.

Attorney

Robins Kaplan LLP

Nine-plus years of complex litigation and technology business advice.

Judicial Clerk to Hon. Michael J. Davis, Chief Judge

U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota

Attorney

Jardine, Logan & O'Brien P.L.L.P.

Judicial Clerk to Chief Judge Edward Toussaint

Minnesota Court of Appeals

With the D. Minn. clerkship above, clerked for the chief judges of both a state and a federal court.

Earlier

Lockridge Grindal Nauen (Law Clerk, 2001–02) · CenterPoint Energy (Summer Law Clerk, 2001) · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, D. North Dakota, Clerk's Office (1998–99).

Boards & appointments

Chair, AI Committee

Minnesota State Bar Association

Oversees the AI Sandbox to expand legal services to underserved communities.

Board Member

Scale Justice (formerly Pro Bono Net)

Board Member

ALEA Institute

Nonprofit advancing legal and ethical AI — open-source KL3M language models (trained on cases, statutes, regulations) and the FOLIO ontology.

Co-Chair

Minnesota Governor's Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles

Appointed by Gov. Tim Walz to the 15-member council.

Member, Legal Technology Advisory Committee

Colorado Supreme Court

Leadership Team

SALI Alliance

Legal-data standard (ISO-like ontology) grown to 18,000+ tags (RDFS/OWL).

Co-Founder

All the Music LLC

Education

J.D.

William Mitchell College of Law

Executive Editor, William Mitchell Law Review.

B.S., Music Education

North Dakota State University

St. John's University (1994–95).

Certifications & honors

  • HonorSelected for the Financial Times FT Law 50 (2026; to be announced June 2026, London).
  • Honor · 2023Financial Times — one of the “six champions of generative AI innovation.”
  • Honor“Rising Star” (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015).
  • Certification“Text Mining and Analytics”; “The Data Scientist's Toolbox” (Johns Hopkins).

Publications & books

Books

A West Academic trial-practice trilogy — each with an AI-interactive (QR-code) layer.

Articles

Two decades of legal scholarship — in law reviews, legal journals, and legal publications — all discussing how technology is transforming the law (and society).

  1. 2026

    Beyond the Chatbot: Meet the Agentic Law Firm ↗

    Bench & Bar of Minn. (May/June 2026)

  2. 2024
  3. 2024

    AI + MSBA: Building Minnesota's Legal Future ↗

    81-Oct. Bench & Bar of Minn. 26 (2024)Open access

    Quoted by the U.S. District Court in Kohls v. Ellison, 2025 WL 66514 (D. Minn. Jan. 10, 2025). Winner, MSBA Elmer H. Wiblishauser Author's Award.

  4. 2024
  5. 2024

    Evolution of the Data-Driven Lawyer ↗

    20 U. St. Thomas L.J. 368 (2024)Open access

  6. 2023
  7. 2023

    Standardizing Legal Data to Extract Insights ↗

    AALL Spectrum, May/June 2023 (Vol. 27, No. 5)

  8. 2016–18

    Car Minus Driver: Autonomous Vehicles Driving Regulation, Liability, and Policy ↗

    Bench & Bar of Minn. (2016); 73 J. Mo. B. 264 (2017) (Parts I & II); The Computer & Internet Lawyer (2018)

    Published in three journals

  9. 2016

    Writing Briefs for Judges Who Read on Screens ↗

    Lee Marshall & Damien Riehl

    JD Supra (Mar. 9, 2016)

  10. You Can't Judge an ECF Notice by its Cover ↗

    Robins Kaplan "Briefly" / Minn. Law.

  11. 2014

    Screen Writing for Screen Reading ↗

    Eric J. Magnuson & Damien Riehl

    Minn. Law. (Apr. 17, 2014) · Robins Kaplan "Briefly"

  12. Sensors, Wearables, and Liability: The Brave New World of IoT

    Minn. Law. (print)Print only

  13. 2014

    Is "Buying" Digital Content Just "Renting" for Life? Contemplating a Digital First-Sale Doctrine ↗

    Damien A. Riehl & Jumi Kassim

    40 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 783 (2014)Open access

  14. 2014

    The Digital Death Conundrum: How Federal and State Laws Prevent Fiduciaries from Managing Digital Property ↗

    Christina L. Kunz, Damien A. Riehl, James D. Lamm & Peter J. Rademacher

    68 U. Miami L. Rev. 385 (2014)Open access

  15. 2012

    Forensic Collection of Electronic Evidence from Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing ↗

    Josiah Dykstra & Damien Riehl

    19 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2012)Open access

  16. 2001

    Peer-to-Peer Distribution Systems: Will Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet Create a Copyright Nirvana or Gehenna? ↗

    27 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1761 (2001)Open access

    Student note — Damien was Executive Editor of the William Mitchell Law Review.

In the press

Coverage and interviews about Damien — not authored by him.