AI in Contract Law

Jerry Ting is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Evisort, the leading AI-powered contract analytics and management platform. Since founding Evisort in 2016 with his Harvard Law School classmates, Ting has raised over $155m of venture capital funding from leading investors like General Atlantic, Microsoft, and Village Global. Today, Evisort is driving deep changes in how transactional law is practiced and is used by over a hundred leading companies, including Microsoft, BNY Mellon, and Keller Williams. Ting is an advocate for lawyers finding creative, efficient paths to providing legal services, including using legal technology, alternative legal service providers, developing legal operations capabilities and other emerging models of legal practice. Evisort, as a change agent in providing business opportunities for lawyers, regularly hires JDs in business roles that are legal adjacent. Additionally, Ting is an active angel investor and commonly serves as an advisor to early founding teams building technology startups. Prior to founding Evisort, Ting had professional experiences in banking, consulting, law, and tech sales at Credit Suisse, the Boston Consulting Group, Fried Frank, and Yelp. Ting is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the University of Southern California. He was a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list as well as the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list, and was recognized as one of 18 millennials changing the face of legal technology by Law.com.

James A. Sherer is a Partner in the New York office of BakerHostetler, where he co-leads the Emerging Technology Team for the Digital Assets and Data Management Group while directing Information Governance, Data Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence engagements. James holds an MBA, the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, and PLS data privacy professional credentials, the CIP and IGP information governance designations, and the UCLA Extension Global Cyber Institute’s Cybersecurity Certification, and the CEDS and eDPC eDiscovery specialist credentials. James is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves as a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups One, Six, and Eleven and the IEEE Organizational Governance of AI Working Group. Bar Admissions: U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, U.S. Supreme Court, New York, Michigan, District of Columbia,

Sean Carter is the founder of Mesa CLE, a company devoted to solid legal continuing education with a healthy dose of laughter. He is the country’s foremost (actually, only) Humorist at Law. Mr. Carter graduated from Harvard Law School in 1992. His ten years of legal practice focused on corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions. During this time, he represented such clients as GNC, Experian, The Boston Beer Company, Homeside Lending, Safelite Auto Glass, J. Crew and many others, before eventually serving as in-house counsel to a publicly-traded finance company. In 2002, Mr. Carter left the practice of law to pursue a career as the country’s foremost Humorist at Law. Since then, Mr. Carter has crisscrossed the country delivering his Lawpsided Seminars for state and local bar associations, law firms, in-house corporate legal departments and law schools. Each year, he presents more than 100 humorous programs on such topics as legal ethics, stress management, constitutional law, legal marketing and much more. Mr. Carter is the author of the first-ever comedic legal treatise -- If It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit?: Your Humorous Guide to the Law. His syndicated legal humor column has appeared in general circulation newspapers in more than 30 states and his weekly humor column for lawyers appeared in the ABA e-Report from 2003 to 2006.