“Ripple Labs Decision: 3 Big Takeaways”
This article discusses a U.S. federal court decision that was significant for the crypto sector.
Projects & Articles
AI & Software Projects
I build these AI systems and use them in my legal practice.
Seven projects in use or developed · 640,000+ tracked project lines · 2,500+ commits · 3,100+ tracked files · First commit: 2023
Stack:
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integrations (Gemini, Claude, GPT) · stage-specific model and prompt workflows · scheduled automations
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integrations (Gemini, Claude, GPT) · stage-specific model and prompt workflows · scheduled automations
Deployment:
CI/CD-backed validation, builds, App Engine deployment for the Translation Pipeline, and repository mirroring where appropriate.
CI/CD-backed validation, builds, App Engine deployment for the Translation Pipeline, and repository mirroring where appropriate.
Translation App for Legal Documents (translate.emsato.com):
I have a production-ready web app to translate legal documents across nine English-centered ASEAN language pairs. It is built specifically for difficult primary-source regulations.
It handles PDFs, DOCX files, images, and public web content, with an easy one-step mode or an advanced mode, offering redlines of changes and options for better quality outputs. Jobs queue in the background and provide email alerts when finished.
Legal Knowledge Base:
This is an ingestion system to save, organize, and process primary sources, secondary materials, templates, and practice notes. It creates Source Units ready for vector or hybrid-retrieval search. It provides provenance and audit records in addition to structured legal source records.
Legal Wiki:
A living knowledge base of regulations built from approved Source Units.
Automated Research Pipelines:
I have a custom dashboard that is updated daily by numerous automated research pipelines. The dashboard monitors legal, AI, and market developments over time. Its functions include:
- Finding and displaying regulatory updates from official and regulator-focused sources;
- Tracking AI model, product, agent/tool, enterprise, infrastructure, safety, and policy developments;
- Tracking legal AI-sector companies, including product changes, adoption news, market positioning, and valuations; and
- Monitoring selected regulatory and reference websites for changes.
The dashboard supports tags, tracked-company and project subpages, saved items, and user feedback to update algorithms.
Fee Proposal Generator:
This is a drafting tool for structured fee proposals based on scope, staffing, billing assumptions, and deposit requirements. It compresses a multi-hour manual process into minutes while preserving firm-specific formatting and engagement standards.
DOCX Styler:
This is an AI-assisted formatting system for legal Word documents. It applies consistent paragraph and style treatment across drafts that have passed through multiple contributors before final production.
SHA-SG:
This is a version-controlled repository of Singapore venture capital template documents and forms. Built to track clause-level changes across versions and make template evolution easier to review.
Prior Legal Projects
Venture Capital and Company Financings:
Company counsel for CG Oncology, Inc.’s Series A financing, which raised USD 3.5M, and Series B financing, which raised USD 10M. CG Oncology, Inc. is now listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CGON and, as of 3 July 2026, had a market capitalization of over USD 6B.
Company counsel for USD $20M of private placements for a manufacturing and materials-science company.
Counsel for a Silicon Valley angel investor who has made numerous startup investments.
Corporate Compliance:
Served as a securities and corporate compliance counsel for several NASDAQ-traded companies.
Blockchain/DLT Projects:
Company counsel for a biomedical blockchain project.
Company counsel for a Token Generation Event (ICO) involving over USD $22M of digital tokens.
Other Projects:
Counsel for a software development firm, a digital marketing firm, and for numerous real estate investment projects.
Articles Written
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“Contagion, Crypto and Venture Capital”
This article discusses a string of U.S. bank failures that occurred in Q1 2023, including how depositors are insured by the FDIC and how bank failures can affect venture capital.
“Publishing A.I. Art: What Could Go Wrong?”
This article discusses the risk of using AI art for your website, posters, marketing materials—publishing it in general. It discusses the state of copyright for AI art, and touches upon how AI models are trained.
“No Copyright on A.I. Art (But How to Argue for It)”
This article discusses how copyright law and AI art intersect. Although an AI model cannot be considered an author of copyrighted material, there is at least a reasonable argument that a prompt writer should be considered an author eligible for copyright protection.
“FinCEN: 4 Ways it’s Changing and Expanding”
This article discusses FinCEN, a U.S. financial-crimes enforcement agency. An action in Q1 2023 showed that the agency was expanding its policing powers.