Damien Riehl

Clio

Help build Vincent, Clio's legal-AI system that runs 50-state and multi-country legal surveys across a dataset spanning 110+ countries — parsing cases, statutes, regulations, motions, briefs, pleadings, and orders into structured, verifiable answers.

Integrate large language models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and others) into legal workflows, grounding outputs in primary law to reduce hallucination and make AI legal reasoning auditable.

Speak and write across the country and around the world, gathering practitioner insight and translating it into product design — same team since 2019: Fastcase → vLex → Clio.

vLex

Led design, development, and expansion of products integrating generative AI (including Claude) into legal workflows and data analytics — tools that help lawyers work faster and more accurately.

Helped build Vincent, one of the first retrieval-grounded generative-AI legal assistants, anchoring model output to authoritative law across jurisdictions.

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).

Led litigation-analytics content and product workflow, powering legal data analytics from raw court dockets.

Built AI-backed legal-research and docket-analytics products; co-invented the “pleading tags” data structure (US Patent 12,153,886 B2) that turns unstructured litigation filings into machine-readable, queryable data.

Stroz Friedberg (an Aon company)

Led cybersecurity incident-response investigations — data breaches, insider threats, malware, and social engineering — including the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica engagement.

Directed digital-forensics engagements reconstructing user and attacker activity across endpoints, servers, and cloud environments; coordinated proactive resilience (penetration testing, threat simulation, pre-attack counseling).

Developed AI solutions for e-discovery and big-data engagements using NLP and data-analytics clustering — early work where AI safety and security proved inseparable.

Thomson Reuters

Designed software and led a team designing the legal-content data structure mapping every legal task across the matter lifecycle — foundation of US Patent 11,868,936 B2.

Interviewed hundreds of lawyers and in-house counsel (US and UK) to ground product design in real practice; led an agile process with architects and engineers to build complex workflow software.

Applied early machine-learning and NLP to structure legal content for the legal industry and the judiciary, at the world's largest legal-information company.

Robins Kaplan LLP

Litigated and counseled across intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, trademarks, finance, and technology — for clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 25 companies.

Built the firm's data-privacy, security, HIPAA, social-media, and legal-ethics policies.

Spearheaded technology- and process-driven innovations to improve case workflow and efficiency.

U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota

Drafted orders and memoranda for the Chief Judge across civil and criminal matters — many involving e-discovery and emerging technology.

Analyzed and advised the Court on intellectual-property and complex civil litigation.

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

Represented municipalities and insurers in state and federal courts.

Defended insurers in automobile-accident matters turning on human negligence — the liability questions that now anchor my autonomous-vehicles policy work.

Minnesota Court of Appeals

Drafted appellate opinions and bench memoranda for judicial panels; reviewed and edited other judges' draft opinions for accuracy.

Led the organization and editing of the Court of Appeals Style Manual and Standards of Review.

Lockridge Grindal Nauen (Law Clerk, 2001–02) · CenterPoint Energy (Summer Law Clerk, 2001).

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of North Dakota

Built the court's first website and populated its historical filing database; managed one-third of North Dakota's bankruptcy filings — shipping court technology before law school.

Minnesota State Bar Association

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

Scale Justice (formerly Pro Bono Net)

A nonprofit that builds digital tools and partnerships to expand access to justice for low-income people, in collaboration with legal-aid providers nationwide.

ALEA Institute

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

Minnesota Governor's Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles

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

Colorado Supreme Court

SALI Alliance

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

All the Music LLC

Algorithmically generated every melody that can exist (471 billion) and dedicated them all to the public domain (CC0), so songwriters can create freely — without copyright threats.

William Mitchell College of Law

Executive Editor, William Mitchell Law Review.

North Dakota State University

St. John's University (1994–95).