Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A lawyer since 2002 and coder since 1985, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has built AI-backed legal software.
Damien chairs the Minnesota State Bar Association's AI Committee, which oversees an AI Sandbox to promote Access to Justice (A2J). At FOLIO, Damien implements ontologies, expanding SALI's taxonomy of 18,000+ legal tags, advancing the industry's Generative AI and analytics.
At vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm — Damien helps lead the design, development, and expansion of various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) into a billion-document dataset from 100+ countries, all to improve legal workflows.