Ronald Chichester
Artificial Intelligence
Development and implementation of systems involving machine learning and other types of artificial intelligence, particularly for natural language processing, contract analysis, workflow automation. Ownership and regulation of artificial intelligence for businesses. Audits of artificial intelligence for mergers and acquisitions. Litigation involving systems that incorporate machine learning and artificial agents.
Electronic Commerce
Drafting and negotiating contracts, smart contracts, service agreements, software licensing (both closed source and open source software), end user license agreements, website privacy policies, website terms of use policies, service agreements, service level agreements, and software development agreements.
Cybersecurity & Privacy
Matters involving computer/network security such as cybersecurity measures, privacy policies, privacy regulations, security breach and notification requirements, incident response, privacy issues, privacy policies, information technology system audits, corporate espionage, identity theft, and computer crimes.
Intellectual Property
Devising and implementing strategies for intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and related antitrust issues. Particular expertise with patents involving computer engineering, computer science, and business methods. Expert witness on cases involving copyright infringement of computer source code.
Legal Engineering
Automation of human/robotic workflow, particularly with respect to legal processes and practices. Development of algorithms and machine learning methods for robotics, data wrangling and visualization, system modeling, software development to integrate disparate software systems, document assembly, automated document review, and automatic implementation of document retention policies.
Blockchains
Integrating blockchains for business and commerce, smart contracts, distributed autonomous organizations (digital corporations), business governance. Smart legal contracts, automated business processes, as well as regulatory and antitrust issues related thereto.
Electronic Discovery
Computer forensics, identification, preservation, acquisition, processing, review, analysis, production, visualization and presentation of data for litigation.
Data Science
Gathering, formatting, visualizing, and analyzing data in support of litigation as an expert witness. Data mining for law firms and corporations.