AI IRL - Practical and Effective AI Use Cases for Legal

Zonghui Wei is a senior data scientist at BakerML, having joined the team in 2022. Prior to this role, she spent over two years working as a consulting data scientist for Baker McKenzie, during which she specialized in building predictive models by harnessing the firm’s structured data. Upon transitioning to BakerML, Zonghui expanded her focus from predictive modeling to the application of generative AI in legal fields. She has collaborated with diverse practice groups, including Employment, IPTech and Tax, to develop GenAI prototypes tailored to empower Baker McKenzie’s legal service. These initiatives aim to amplify efficiency, enhance quality, and reduce costs.

Zonghui holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Northwestern University, with her research focused on computational studies of polymeric gene delivery systems for gene therapy.

L?onardo Murgel is Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Salesforce Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA). In this role, L?o leads the way in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of LCA by leveraging multiple strategies in operational excellence to support the 500 strong organization with best practices accelerating forth while generating significant cost savings for the company. Prior to this role, L?o was Vice President for IT Mergers & Acquisitions, where he was responsible for the due diligence and complete IT integration of 20 Salesforce acquisitions. L?o has also led Salesforce's IT Program Management office and held similar leadership roles throughout his career for global retailers, technology consultancies, and engineering firms. L?o holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and further Business Administration and Project Management Education from UC Berkeley.

Danielle is the Founder and global head of Baker McKenzie's Machine Learning Practice, an industry-leading venture that combines the Firm's legal domain expertise with advanced data science and machine learning.
She was previously a senior lawyer in Baker McKenzie's IP and Technology Practice and a regional leader of its Reinvent innovation program. Danielle has also served on the Firm's Global Digital Media and Copyright Steering Committee and North America IP and Technology leadership team.
Danielle has been recognized by Fortune 500 clients as "nothing short of spectacular" and "having a level of sophistication beyond her years." She has a Masters of Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, where she was previously a member of the Graduate School of Business' Venture Studio and a Fellow of the Legal Design Lab and has served as venture coach in CodeX's AI and Law program.

Jeff Reihl is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the global legal business of LexisNexis. In this capacity, Mr. Reihl is responsible for global technology strategy, bringing together the company’s applications, product platforms and business systems to deliver LexisNexis world-class content to its customers in innovative ways.
As CTO, Mr. Reihl also leverages the company’s cutting- edge technology and deep customer insight to help legal professionals work more effectively and efficiently and achieve better outcomes for their businesses and clients. Prior to his current role, Mr. Reihl led the New Lexis Technology and Operations team, Global Solutions Development, and before that, Editorial & Content Development for LexisNexis. Before joining LexisNexis in 2007, Mr. Reihl held multiple executive leadership roles at Thomson Corporation in both P&L and staff functions, including Chief Information Officer of Thomson Healthcare and Executive Vice President of Thomson Clinical Solutions and Thomson Micromedex.
Prior to that, Mr. Reihl was VP, Product and Systems Development at ProQuest and also served as a Principal Engineer and Software Manager at Hughes Network Systems. Mr. Reihl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Central Michigan University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Steve Gong is the Head of Global Patent Operations, Technology, and Tactics at Google. His team is responsible for process management, outside counsel engagement and management, technical infrastructure and tooling including building new toolings, systems, and data solutions to enable Google Global Patents to manage one of the world’s largest patent portfolios.

Steve received his Juris Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis., Bachelors in Science in Bioengineering from University of Illinois and Masters in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Julian Tsisin is a Program Manager for Legal Technology at Google. As part of his role he is responsible for developing, implementing and supporting various systems that improve efficiencies within Google’s Legal Department.

Prior to Google, Julian worked in a similar role at Disney and as a software engineer for a large international law firm.