David Colarusso
Senior Practitioner In Residence & Co-Director, Legal Innovation & Technology Lab At Suffolk Law
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Colarusso is a multidisciplinary legal technologist, educator, and data scientist with 12 years of experience transforming how law is practiced and taught. As Practitioner in Residence and Co-Director of Suffolk Law’s Legal Innovation & Technology Lab, he builds practical AI and automation tools for legal workflows while teaching project-based courses on coding and expert systems. A former public defender and staff attorney, he pairs courtroom experience with data-driven approaches from his time as a data scientist at the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Earlier in his career he founded and led a web-app consultancy, bringing product design and platform architecture experience to academic innovation. Trained as an attorney and education specialist (JD, MEd) with a background in physics and teaching, he blends technical craft, pedagogy, and client-centered problem solving in ways that aren’t immediately obvious from his title alone. Based in Boston, he maintains an artisan’s curiosity—building tools and curricula that make complex legal processes more accessible and actionable.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Independent Major (physics core, BA Independent Major (physics core at Cornell UniversityJD Law, JD Law at Boston University School of LawMEd Individualized, MEd Individualized at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Github Skills (34)
interpreter10
docassemble9
lit8
jekyll8
textbook8
preprocessing7
origami7
documentation7
mobile6
python6
assembly6
react5
browser-extension5
geopandas4
telegram4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SuffolkLITLab/SuffolkLITLab.github.io
Oct 2017 - Feb 2023
The LIT Lab's website
Contributions:130 commits, 5 PRs, 402 pushes in 5 years 4 months
litjekylllab
MA-Defenders/incourt
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
courtmobile-friendly
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