Résumé

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Summary

Lawyer and technologist with 25+ years at the intersection of courts, code, and the rule of law. Clerk to two chief judges (Minnesota Court of Appeals; U.S. District Court, D. Minn.); complex-litigation attorney; digital-forensics lead; and architect of the open legal-data standards (SALI/FOLIO — an OWL knowledge graph) that make legal AI verifiable. Now at Clio, helping build Vincent across a 110+-country legal dataset. Cited by a U.S. federal court; two issued patents; three trial-practice books; chair of a state bar’s access-to-justice AI work.

Core Competencies

Legal AI evaluation · Legal-data standards & ontologies (SALI, FOLIO, OWL/RDFS) · Rule-of-law & AI governance · Access to justice · Litigation & complex disputes · Digital forensics & cybersecurity · AI/ML/NLP for law · Public policy & appointments

Selected Achievements

• Cited by a U.S. federal court — Kohls v. Ellison, No. 24-cv-3754, 2025 WL 66514 (D. Minn. Jan. 10, 2025), which struck an expert declaration built on AI-fabricated citations.
• Architect of legal-data standards — led SALI for five years, growing the open SALI/FOLIO ontology (OWL/RDFS) from ~1,000 to 18,000+ machine-readable tags adopted by the world’s largest law firms, legal-tech companies, and corporations.
• Two issued U.S. patents — US 11,868,936 B2 and US 12,153,886 B2.
• Co-organized a January 2026 open letter supporting the rule of law, signed by more than 650 legal professionals.
• All the Music — co-founded the project that brute-forced every melody that can exist (471 billion) and released them to the public domain (CC0).
• Recognition — selected for the Financial Times FT Law 50 (2026; announced June 2026, London); named by the FT among the “six champions of generative AI innovation” (2023).

Experience

Solutions Champion, Clio — Nov 2025 – present

• Builds legal technology and travels worldwide on AI for law. Helps build Vincent — which runs 50-state and multi-country legal surveys across a dataset of 110+ countries — parsing substantive law (cases, statutes, regulations, motions, briefs, pleadings, orders). Same team since 2019: Fastcase → vLex → Clio.

Vice President, Solutions Champion, vLex — Apr 2023 – Nov 2025

• Led design, development, and expansion of products integrating generative AI into legal workflows and analytics.

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

• Led litigation-analytics content and product workflow; built AI-backed legal-research and docket-analytics products.

Vice President & Engagement Manager, Stroz Friedberg (an Aon company) — Jun 2017 – Jun 2019

• Led world-scale cybersecurity, incident-response, and digital-forensics investigations.

Senior Product Strategist (Director level), Thomson Reuters — Mar 2015 – May 2016

• AI/ML/NLP for the legal industry and the judiciary, at the world’s largest legal-technology company.

Attorney, Robins Kaplan LLP — Sep 2005 – Mar 2015

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

Judicial Clerk to Hon. Michael J. Davis, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, D. Minnesota — Aug 2004 – Aug 2005

Judicial Clerk to Chief Judge Edward Toussaint, Minnesota Court of Appeals — Aug 2002 – Aug 2003

Boards & Appointments

• Chair, AI Committee, Minnesota State Bar Association — oversees the AI Sandbox expanding legal services to underserved communities.
• Co-Chair, Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected & Automated Vehicles (appointed by Gov. Walz), 2019–present.
• Board Member, ALEA Institute (open-source KL3M models + FOLIO), 2024–present; Board Member, Scale Justice (formerly Pro Bono Net), 2025–present.
• Member, Colorado Supreme Court Legal Technology Advisory Committee.
• Federal courts’ Electronic Public Access Public User Group (2025).
• Leadership Team, SALI Alliance (2020–2025).

Education

• J.D., William Mitchell College of Law (1999–2002) — Executive Editor, William Mitchell Law Review.
• B.S., Music Education, North Dakota State University (1993–1997).

Publications & Books

• Co-author, West Academic trial-practice trilogy (Pretrial Litigation; Trial Advocacy; Trialbook) — each with an AI-interactive (QR-code) layer.
• “AI + MSBA: Building Minnesota’s Legal Future,” 81-Oct. Bench & Bar of Minn. 26 (2024) — quoted in Kohls v. Ellison.
• Approximately fourteen authored articles on legal technology, copyright, digital forensics, and the law of emerging technology.