Damien Riehl

Damien Riehl is vice president of Litigation Workflow & Analytics Content at vLex in Minneapolis, and has experience in complex litigation, digital forensics and software development. A coder since 1985 and for the web since 1995, he has clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, and has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations as well as legal-software development. An appointee of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, Mr. Riehl has helped recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules and policies, all related to connected and autonomous vehicles. As a leader of the legal-data standard SALI, he has expanded a taxonomy of 10,000 legal elements regarding the legal industry’s AI and data-analytics development. Previously, Mr. Riehl was wih Fastcase, where he helped lead the design, development and expansion of the company’s various products, integrating AI-backed technologies to improve legal workflows and to power legal data analytics. He received his B.S. in music education from North Dakota State University and his J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.