
System does legal engineering. Walker leads System. https://system.legal/ Legal engineering applies stuff (empiricism, mathematics, technology, design) to get legal things done, and things done legally. Those things should improve OUTCOMES—financial, legal, personal. And systematically so. Walker is a veteran Silicon Valley tech attorney and AI entrepreneur. Some of the folks he has helped include Hellman & Friedman, IDEO, Airbus, JPMorgan, Apple, the White House, Aon, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, Sefaria, Blackstone, BlackRock, Temasek, Facebook, US District Courts, the Federal Circuit, and certain supreme courts. (One should not be graded solely on an ascent through hierarchies. Not that alone: but also by the people and entities you helped, and by what degree. Hopefully, that translates into marginal GDP, EBITDA, or enterprise value deltas. By lives improved.) Walker co-founded and led both the leading law & computer science lab in the world (Stanford’s CodeX) and the first enterprise-grade legal AI company (Lex Machina; acquired: Lexis, 2015; remains a ubiquitous forerunner). Previously, he wrote “On Legal AI” (2019), the field’s first practical treatise. (OLAI 2.0: 2025.) These three projects helped inspire generations of law and CS entrepreneurs. Walker has now put 30 years of effective and divergent AI prescience—and over twenty as a successful Silicon Valley IP & AI attorney—into System.Legal: There remains a multi-trillion dollar “entropy gap” between GenAI promises and proven user utility (in law, but in general). Closing that gap may seem an inevitability over the long run. But in the near term it cries out for hard, adaptive work (including novel and divergent AI <~> human approaches). . . . Divergence to arrive. But this entropy gap is generally ignored. And ignorance means peril. Performance test results are spoofed or swept under the rug. Innovation theatre reigns. Perception rules over reality. Yet, as Warren Buffet has observed: There is still a market, and an upside, for truth. It’s just an outré, or rare commodity . . . until the tide goes out. Like the honey badger, hard empirical data doesn’t care about our personal politics or preferences. Reality shears through omnidirectional bias and cultish hierarchies like a razor. Law needs rigor, craft, AND scalability. DNA from Engineering. And VICE VERSA. Legal Engineering allows us to realize and scale enterprise value, and human valueS; optimizing governance across modes. Join us. THINK. CREATE. SCALE. . .
stanford.edu
aifund.ai
cnam.fr
berkeley.edu
simpsonthacher.com
skadden.com
orrick.com
New York, New York, United States
Chief Executive Officer
System.Legal Corp
Jan 2022 - Present
United States
Member
AI Link
• www.linkedin.com/company/ai-link-by-ai-fund
Dec 2024 - Present
Co-Founder & Fellow
CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
• www.linkedin.com/company/codex-stanford
Jan 2004 - Present
Palo Alto
Senior Fellow & Associate Researcher, CNAM
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
• www.linkedin.com/company/conservatoire-national-des-arts-et-métiers
Jan 2019 - Present
Paris Area, France
Chief Product Officer, Global Head of Transactions & Private Equity
AON IPS
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Appointee & Member: Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS)
State Bar of California
• www.linkedin.com/company/state-bar-of-california
Oct 2018 - May 2020
San Francisco, Los Angeles
CEO
System.Legal
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Silicon Valley
un.org
lexmachina.com
ca.gov
org.uk
airbus.com