Jake is the Founder and CEO of Casetext. Jake was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Fastcase 50 for legal innovation for his work at Casetext. Before starting Casetext, Jake was a litigator at Ropes & Gray. He graduated from Stanford Law School, where he was president of Stanford Law Review, and clerked for Judge Michael Boudin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He’s a Silicon Valley native, and has been programming since childhood.
Before joining Casetext, Danielle worked for 13 years in the Washington, D.C. office of King & Spalding, where her practice focused on product liability litigation and toxic tort litigation. She received her J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School.
Chris attended the University of Virginia School of Law, winning the school’s award for health and the law. Chris also has a Master’s degree in chemical engineering from M.I.T., and he combines a top-tier engineering and science background with a passion for human health, protecting life, and preserving justice in the face of environmental and other threats including dangerous drugs and other products.
Andrew’s areas of concentration include professional liability, defense of nursing home malpractice and abuse cases, wrongful death actions, products liability, construction litigation, real estate litigation, premises liability, personal injury defense, commercial litigation and general liability matters.
Ryan is the Chief Technology Officer at Casetext. Following completion of a PhD in mathematics, Ryan spent many years working in machine learning and software engineering in Silicon Valley. At Casetext, he built the initial technology and team behind CARA AI and other key features of the Casetext platform. His team has continued to bring many great legal tech innovations to market, including Compose and ParallelSearch.
Laura is Casetext’s Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. She was previously a civil litigator at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and before that served in the Senate Judiciary Committee and clerked in the Southern District of New York. Laura graduated from Yale Law School, where she was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal. Laura currently sits on the advisory board of OneJustice, a California legal aid nonprofit, and has been named among the Top Women Leaders in Tech Law in California.