“Ripple Labs Decision: 3 Big Takeaways”
This article discusses a U.S. federal court decision that was impactful for the crypto sector.
Projects & Articles
AI & Software Projects
Builder of AI systems for real-world legal practice.
140,000+ lines of production code · 1,900+ commits · 7 systems in production or active development · First commit: 2023
Stack:
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integrations (Gemini, Claude, GPT, MiniMax) · Custom prompt orchestration · Scheduled automations · Full deployment pipelines
Python · JavaScript · Direct LLM API integrations (Gemini, Claude, GPT, MiniMax) · Custom prompt orchestration · Scheduled automations · Full deployment pipelines
Translation Pipeline:
Automated translation system for legal and regulatory documents across nine English-centered ASEAN language pairs. It handles PDFs, DOCX files, images, and public web content, with step-level review surfaces, cleanup diffs, and long-job status tools for materials where precision matters more than stylistic fluency.
Legal Knowledge Base:
Canonical ingestion and review layer for primary legal sources, secondary materials, templates, and practice notes. It stores validated, version-controlled Markdown with provenance, audit records, SQLite search, and source-backed handoffs into Legal Wiki drafting; Translation Pipeline output is the designed upstream source, with automated ingestion still planned.
Legal Wiki:
Synthesis-only layer built on Legal Knowledge Base citations. It turns canonical source material into reviewed topic, issue, concept, process, entity, and question pages, with Obsidian-style navigation and explicit approval before generated drafts or update proposals become work product.
Automated Research Pipelines:
Scheduled research workflows that monitor defined topics, generate source-backed summaries, and write them into dashboard-backed history rather than one-off alerts. The dashboard keeps tags, date filters, company pages, automation status, and article-level feedback visible across later runs.
Fee Proposal Generator:
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:
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:
Version-controlled Singapore venture capital templates, including the shareholders’ agreement, subscription agreement, and constitution. 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 a Series A (raising USD $3.5M) and a Series B (raising USD $10M) for a biotech company
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 was an article about a string of U.S. bank failures that occurred in Q1 2023. It discusses how depositors are insured by the FDIC, and how the bank failures should 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 United States agency that acts like the “world financial police.” An action in Q1 2023 showed that the agency was expanding its policing powers.