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Dorna Moini

Dorna Moini

Lawyer

Oct 5, 2026

1:23
Now, when you're building technology for lawyers in particular, how do you translate a complicated legal problem into a product that actually fits into someone's actual workflow? So maybe would it be
1:34
helpful for me to just like take a step back and share a little bit about how I got here and what our journey was? So I'm a former litigator.
1:42
I practiced for almost a decade at Sidley Austin.
1:45
And I got into the legal technology space because of a problem that I wanted to solve in my own legal practice.
1:54
And it happened to not be in my main practice, but in my pro bono practice.
1:58
So I wanted to... represented a lot of domestic violence survivors pro bono in my in my practice and i wanted to build technology around that so that i could spend my time on the most legal intensive fact-intensive parts of the case like taking on appeals or doing legal research that that you couldn't do with a computer or taking them into the courtroom so i built an application for domestic violence law and that that eventually came to be the idea for gavel which is legal drafting product and and now both rules-based and AI legal drafting product that Relativity just acquired in June.
2:37
So that's been our journey here, but our product has always, to really go back to your question, our product has always been a product-led growth company.
5:12
How do those requirements affect the way that your team would design an AI-powered product?
8:04
No, please go ahead, Garner.
8:06
I was going to say a topic that probably a lot of you are eager to talk about, which is just law schools banning AI.
8:14
It's definitely something that, and the reason I would say only anxiety, but the reason it brings me excitement is that we are now finally having some of these conversations in a real way, and we can decide how do we think as a whole, as a legal profession, that we can best train the junior lawyers while maintaining some system of thought where we're not just blindly handing things over to systems to take over.
8:40
But I'm sure we'll chat more about that as well.

7 MINS LATER

15:50
But before we do that, other people with AI aha moments, what have they done over the last week, quarter, month that has been interesting or
15:56
surprising? Oh, go ahead.
15:58
No, you start, Donna.
16:00
I was just going to say, I have set up a few different like Claude brains, both for one for an employee who is on leave.
7:49
So maybe you can tell us about that and how you came up with that idea.
7:52
Definitely.
7:53
So similar to Nicole and Jackie, I came across this within my own practice.
7:58
So I was a litigator.
8:00
I did mostly employment litigation and trade secret litigation for about seven years.
8:05
I was at Sidley Austin and I was also doing some work pro bono.
8:11
And the pro bono work that I did mostly was with domestic violence survivors.

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30:01
So how do you think or think that your particular skills as a lawyer kind of translated?

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