Brad Newman
Associate Director Of Legal Engineering
Ukiah, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Newman is an innovation-focused legal engineer and practice leader with nine years of experience modernizing how law firms deliver services, currently serving as Associate Director of Legal Engineering at Cooley LLP. He blends deep legal training (JD, LL.M. in Law, Science & Technology) with startup and operational experience—co-founding a legal tech startup and running legal affairs at Stanford’s StartX—to design processes, resources, and technology that surface firm expertise for clients. At Cooley he has progressed from staff attorney roles into strategic portfolio and engineering leadership, driving knowledge curation and scalable service delivery across practice areas. Based in Ukiah and shaped by both Big Law and Silicon Valley ecosystems, he pairs rigorous legal judgment with a product-minded approach to automation and knowledge management. An early contributor to legal informatics projects at Stanford, he brings a rare mix of technical curiosity and practical legal ops experience to help firms translate complex legal work into repeatable, technology-enabled offerings.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Hons.) Media Information and Technoculture, B.A. (Hons.) Media Information and Technoculture at Western UniversityYork Mills Collegiate InstituteJ.D. Law, J.D. Law at University of WindsorLL.M. Law Science & Technology, LL.M. Law Science & Technology at Stanford University
Github Skills (46)
seed10
php10
docker-image9
dockerfile9
docker-container9
docker8
docker-compose8
startup8
remote-development7
airplay7
portainer7
california7
docker-swarm7
apple-tv7
namespaces7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CooleyLLP/seriesseed
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Series Seed - Cooley Fork
Contributions:40 commits, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 years 3 months
legalphpfinancingseedcontracts
brad-newman/startup-checklist
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
A checklist for incorporation so you can get back to building your product, fundraising, etc.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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