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Professor Richard Susskind OBE is the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law and, since 1998, has been Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. His main area of expertise is the future of professional service and, in particular, the way that AI and other technologies are changing the work of lawyers. He wrote his doctorate on AI and the law at Balliol College, Oxford.
Jacob Ward is an on-air Technology Correspondent for NBC News, Lecturer at the Stanford d.School, and former Editor in Chief of Popular Science. In 2002 he authored the book “The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back” (Hachette, 2022) which Roger McNamee of the New York Times described as “the best book I have ever read about AI.”
David Orr is a product management executive at Google, leading the language technology efforts for the Google Assistant. He has been a startup founder, an angel investor, a computer software engineer, a researcher working on internet search, and a director of technology for startups. He sits on the board of directors for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
Zev Eigen is a data scientist focused on cutting edge applications in HR, labor and employment law, and legal services. He is Founder and Chief Data Science Officer of Syndio, and a globally recognized expert in reducing bias in AI. A former professor at Northwestern, and visiting professor at Yale and NYU, Dr. Eigen was honored as one of “40 Under 40 Rising Legal Stars” by the National Law Journal.
Ethan Katsh is the Founder of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution and Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is widely recognized as the founder of the field of online dispute resolution (ODR). He wrote Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (2001), the first book about ODR, and co-authored Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes (2017, Oxford University Press)
Ron Dolin is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law’s Center on the Legal Profession. He co-edited the textbook, Legal Informatics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Ron has Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Santa Barbara and he was one of the first 100 employees at Google. He co-founded the Program for Legal Technology and Design and worked on legal innovation at Stanford Law’s Center on the Legal Profession.
