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TEDx, conference keynotes, partner retreats, boardrooms, and judicial conferences — a litigator, coder, and AI-builder translating where AI and the law are headed — and how to build our future.

Damien Riehl speaking from a podium under stage lighting.

Damien is a sought-after speaker on AI and the law — speaking to how technology is transforming the practice of law, the business of law, access to justice, and the judiciary — including ways that technology can improve all of the above. After his All the Music talk featured by TED, Damien introduces audiences worldwide to the ways that technology is prompting new questions about creativity, law, and access to justice — and how technology can be used to shift toward societal improvements.

Signature topics

AI + Substantive Law

How generative AI is already reshaping legal practice — drafting, research, analysis, and the judiciary — and what comes next.

AI + Business of Law

What AI does to the billable hour, pricing, and legal operations: better, faster, and cheaper, at last, all at once.

Symbolic AI + Neural Nets = Gestalt

Why deterministic knowledge graphs (e.g., SALI, FOLIO) plus probabilistic LLMs together beat either one alone.

Access to Justice

From UPL concerns to A2J solutions: how AI can responsibly put legal help within reach of the people who need it most.

Exemplar Presentation

Recorded in Fall 2024, this talk traces how far AI had come in a single year — across the practice of law (substantive law), the business of law, and where the field is headed next.

It’s just one hour of Damien’s roughly ten hours of presentation content, but it captures the flavor:

  • Rapid-fire delivery
  • High-value, no-filler content
  • Expressing the complex, simply

Talks & Selected Presentations

What Damien speaks about — across 251 talks & presentations

Technology 249
Substantive Law 249
Business of Law 145
Access to Justice 87
Judiciary 54
Music 10
Autonomous Vehicles 2

★ Keynote — solo talk (228 of 251); unmarked rows are panels, hosting, or co-presentations.

YearTalk / PresentationTech249Subst. Law249Business of Law145A2J87Judiciary54Music10Auto. Veh.2
2026★AI and Law (hosted by Stanford Law)TechnologySubstantive Law
★American Association of Nurse AttorneysTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 100 Law Firm — Executive Board RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Arizona State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Association of Family and Conciliation Courts — Arizona ChapterTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Association of Forensic Document ExaminersTechnologySubstantive Law
★Berklee College of MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Bonny Doon — LegalTech 9TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Central Ohio Association for JusticeTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Cloud Court ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Future TransactTechnologySubstantive Law
★Futurelaw — Tallinn, EstoniaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
Generative Legal (hosted by Stanford Law)TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Hike2 ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
ILTACON — AI as TeammateTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Indiana Inn of CourtTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Legal Innovators — CaliforniaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota State Bar Association — Rise of the Agents!TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
Mitchell Hamline College of LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Stanford Law — Neurosymbolic AITechnologySubstantive Law
★Texas State Bar Association — Annual Conference — Plenary KeynoteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★University of MinnesotaTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
2025★ABA Techshow — EthicsTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Academy of Court Appointed Neutrals — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★American Association of Law Schools — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★American Legal Technology Awards — Host
★AmLaw 100 Law Firm — Partner RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
Appellate Judges' Education InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Arizona Judiciary — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Arizona State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Attorneys Information Exchange GroupTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Baylor University School of LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Bonny Doon — LegalTech 8TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Bonny Doon — Salon — Maturing of Legal TechTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Cloud Court ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★College of Commercial ArbitratorsTechnologySubstantive LawJudiciary
★Columbia Law SchoolTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Federal Judiciary IT Advisory CouncilTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Florida State UniversityTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Futurelaw — Tallinn, EstoniaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★IAALS (the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System)TechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
ILTACON — Salesforce's Journey with AITechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Inside Practice — Artificial IntelligenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Inside Practice — Knowledge ManagementTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★International Firm's Partner Retreat — New ZealandTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
LawDroid AI ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★LegalTech ConnectTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★LegalTech Hub ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LexLatin — Latin AmericaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Louisiana State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Maryland Access to Justice CommissionTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Microsoft — AI in Legal Practice: Trends, Trust, and TalentTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★MinneAnalyticsTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★MinneBarTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Minnesota Civil Trial SpecialistsTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Criminal Justice InstituteTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota Federal Inn of CourtTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Minnesota Ombudsman AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Minnesota Public DefendersTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Minnesota Supreme CourtTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Mitchell Hamline College of LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★National Association of Attorneys GeneralTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★New York Legal AidTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Ohio Legal Help RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Oklahoma State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Oregon State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Penn LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Practising Law Institute (PLI) — AI and Employment LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Practising Law Institute (PLI) — AI and EthicsTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★South Texas College of LawTechnologySubstantive Law
★Southern California Association of Law LibrariesTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Suffolk Law School — Lit Lab ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★TerralexTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Texas Access to Justice CommissionTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★University of Southern California (USC)TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Vermont State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Washington State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
2024★AALL — American Association of Law Libraries — Generative AITechnologySubstantive Law
ABA + National Conference of Bar PresidentsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
ABA — Regulatory ReformTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Academy of Rail Labor Attorneys (ARLA) — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
AI Genius PanelTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AILA Fall ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★American Arbitration Association (AAA)TechnologySubstantive Law
★American Immigration Law Association (AILA) — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★American Legal Technology Awards — Host
★AmLaw 10 Firm — Executive BoardTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 10 Law Firm — All-Attorney PresentationTechnologySubstantive Law
★AmLaw 100 Firm — All-Attorney PresentationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 100 Law Firm — Partner RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 150 Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawMusic
★AmLaw 150 Partner RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 200 Firm — All Lawyer MeetingTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 50 Firm — All Lawyer MeetingTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AmLaw 50 Law Firm — Partner RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★ARK KM Conference — Plenary KeynoteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Baylor University School of LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Berklee College of MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Chapman Law — All the MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Chicago Area Law LibrariansTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Cliocon Conference — KeynoteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
CLOC — Corporate Legal Operations ConsortiumTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★CLOC — San Francisco ChapterTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Cloud Court ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Connecticut Bar Association — Annual ConventionTechnologySubstantive Law
★DC Legal Operations — Legal Data StandardsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Florida State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Fortune 500 Company — Law DepartmentTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Fortune 500 Law DepartmentTechnologySubstantive Law
★Foundation User GroupTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Futurelaw — Tallinn, EstoniaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★GeoLegalTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Harvard Business SchoolTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Health Care InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★IAALS (the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System)TechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
ILTA — The GenAI/LLM Tsunami is ComingTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★ILTACON — Legal Data StandardsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Indiana Bar Association — Cohort Series (law firm leaders)TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Inside PracticeTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Iowa State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★KM&I ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Law Society of OntarioTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Law.comTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
LawDroid AI ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Legal Pathfinders — Host two-day conferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
LegalTech Hub ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
LegalWeek - Answers, Not Research: Evolving the Paradigm of Intelligent Human-Machine CollaborationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LegalWeek — Standardized Legal DataTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LexLatin — Latin AmericaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Louisiana State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Maryland State Bar Association — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★MinneBarTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Minnesota CLE — AI and Law ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota Public Defenders — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Minnesota State Bar Association — Solo Small ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota State Judiciary — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★MIT IAP Computational Law WorkshopTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Mitchell Hamline College of Law — Board of TrusteesTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Montana State Bar Association — Annual ConventionTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★National Conference of Bar PresidentsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Nevada Judiciary — Annual RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawJudiciary
★Oak Academy for AI in the Legal ProfessionTechnologySubstantive Law
★Ohio State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Ohio Supreme CourtTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Practising Law Institute (PLI) — AI and Legal Project ManagementTechnologySubstantive Law
★Practising Law Institute (PLI) — Executive Board Presentation — Napa, CaliforniaTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Practising Law Institute (PLI) — Law and EthicsTechnologySubstantive Law
★Running Legal Like a Business — Three Presentations on AITechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Saint Thomas Law — All FacultyTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Saint Thomas Law — Board of TrusteesTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Sense CollectiveTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
SKILLS ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★South by Southwest (SXSW) — All the MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Stanford Law — Agentic AITechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
Stanford Law — CodeX FutureLaw — Neurosymbolic AITechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★State Bar Practice Management AdministratorsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★SubTech — Law School Technology ConsortiumTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★U.S. District Court — District of Minnesota — Annual RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★University of Minnesota — Code FreezeTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★University of Minnesota — Journal of Law, Science, and TechnologyTechnologySubstantive Law
★University of Southern California (USC) Law SchoolTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★University of Washington LawTechnologySubstantive Law
★Villanova LawTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Washington State Bar Association Legal Technology Task Force (CLE)TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
2023★AALL — American Association of Law Libraries — Standardizing Legal DataTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★ABA — Redesigning LegalTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★AI and Copyright: Navigating the Intersections of Creativity, Technology and CopyrightTechnologySubstantive Law
★AIMP — Copyrighting All the MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) — AI & EthicsTechnologySubstantive Law
★AmLaw 50 Law Firm — Executive SessionTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Applied AI ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP)TechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Brazil Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Federal Bar Association — Alaska District ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Global LegalTech HubTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Houston Area Law LibrariansTechnologySubstantive Law
★Illinois State Bar Association — Solo Small ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
ILTACON — "What is Natural Language Processing — and How Can I Use It?TechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★ILTACON — Present on SALITechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Inside PracticeTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LawLineTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LawVisionTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Legal Value NetworkTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LegalGeek ChicagoTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LegalOps.comTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LegalTech Hub ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LegalWeek — Law Firm DataTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★LexFusion Event — LondonTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Louisiana State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Macalester CollegeTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeMusic
★Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL)TechnologySubstantive Law
★MinneDemoTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota Association of Justice — Annual ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★Minnesota CLE Business Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota Court of AppealsTechnologySubstantive LawJudiciary
★Minnesota State BarTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota Supreme Court Law LibraryTechnologySubstantive LawJudiciary
★MSBA Corporate Counsel Section — Open the Pod Bay Doors: AI Bias in Legal ToolsTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to Justice
★MSBA — AI, UPL, and Access to JusticeTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Running Legal Like a BusinessTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
SKILLS ConferenceTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Smartest People in the RoomTechnologySubstantive Law
★TLTF Summit — Opening KeynoteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to Justice
★U.S. District Court — District of Minnesota — Annual RetreatTechnologySubstantive LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★University of Tulsa College of Law — The Data-Driven LawyerTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Wisconsin State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Wyoming Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
2022★20 Tech Tips for Civil Litigators — Minnesota CLETechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
Augmentation, Analytics & Automation — LegalWeek New YorkTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Duke Law School — Copyrighting All the MusicTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★Florida BarTechnologySubstantive Law
ILTA — Standards in Legal TechnologyTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
★Minnesota Law Library — Autonomous VehiclesTechnologySubstantive LawAutonomous Vehicles
★University of St. Thomas SymposiumTechnologySubstantive Law
★Virgin Islands BarTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
2021★2021 Technology Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of LawAccess to JusticeJudiciary
ABA Techshow — EthicsTechnologySubstantive Law
★Intl. Conf. on AI & Law (ICAIL Brazil) — Harnessing Standards in the Legal IndustryTechnologySubstantive Law
★LegalWeek — Humans vs. Robots: Citator CentaursTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota CLE — Autonomous VehiclesTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota State Bar — AI + Humans (Centaurs)TechnologySubstantive LawAutonomous Vehicles
★UC Irvine School of LawTechnologySubstantive Law
★University of Baltimore School of LawTechnologySubstantive Law
2020★AI and LitigationTechnologySubstantive Law
★Arizona State BarTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — AI and LitigationTechnologySubstantive Law
★RightsTech Summit — All the Music & CopyrightTechnologySubstantive LawMusic
★University of Richmond SymposiumTechnologySubstantive Law
2019★Minnesota CLE - E-discovery ForensicsTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Top 10 Tech Law DevelopmentsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Minnesota CLE: Attorney-Client PrivilegeTechnologySubstantive Law
★MSBA Tech Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★Utah State Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive Law
2017★MinneBar12TechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — International Business Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Work Tips:TechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE: Federal Practice EssentialsTechnologySubstantive Law
2016★Minnesota Defense Lawyer's Association — Self-Driving AutomobilesTechnologySubstantive Law
★William Mitchell College of Law — CopyrightTechnologySubstantive Law
2015★HCBA Tech Talks Tuesday — WearablesTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Significant New CasesTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Standards-Essential PatentsTechnologySubstantive Law
★Minnesota CLE — Top 10 Tech Law DevelopmentsTechnologySubstantive Law
2014★International Business Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive Law
★MSBA Annual Meeting — Technology DevelopmentsTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
★William Mitchell College of Law — CopyrightTechnologySubstantive Law
2013Minnesota Paralegals — Digital First Sale DoctrineTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
University of Miami School of Law — Heckerling Institute — Digital DeathTechnologySubstantive Law
2011★Minnesota State Bar Association's Computer & Tech Law InstituteTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
2009★Minnesota Paralegal AssociationTechnologySubstantive LawBusiness of Law
2008★Hennepin County Bar AssociationTechnologySubstantive Law

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