Bernhard Waltl
Legal Operations Officer
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBernhard Waltl is a computer scientist and legal operations leader with 10 years' experience applying AI and NLP to legal tech, currently shaping Legal Operations at BMW Group while lecturing on AI and computational legal methods at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He co-founded Liquid Legal Institute and LDA Legal Data Analytics to commercialize generative AI solutions for law, combining hands-on research (PhD-level) with product and organizational delivery. His background spans data science roles, academic research at TU München, a Stanford CodeX fellowship, and advisory positions in German informatics and conflict management institutes. Known for bridging technical depth and legal practice, he emphasizes people-centric collaboration and explainable AI in sensitive legal contexts. An understated strength is his dual training in informatics and philosophy of science, which informs pragmatic yet ethically grounded innovation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Explainable AI | Legal Support Services | Legal Tech, Explainable AI | Legal Support Services | Legal Tech at Stanford Law SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
German, English
Github Skills (22)
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semantics9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Liquid-Legal-Institute/Corporate-Digital-Responsibility
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Liquid-Legal-Institute/Legal-LLMs-GPTs
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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