Michael Simon is an attorney and the owner of Law Plus Data, LLC, a boutique domestic and international law firm focused on Privacy, AI, and Electronic Discovery issues. Law Plus Data leverages Michael’s unique skill set with technology and his experience in managing data scientists to solve client problems with data. Well before anyone put an “e” in front of “discovery,” Michael was using data to win cases in court. He has spent years sitting between the legal world and technology, co-founding one of the first legal research dot-com start-ups, building groundbreaking innovations for one of the biggest law firms in the world, and serving as Technology Counsel for one of the first eDiscovery companies. He can work with both lawyers and technologists, and – most importantly – he has proven time and time again that he can serve as the translator between these groups to achieve results that otherwise would never have been possible.
Michael is co-chair of the ABA Business Law Section subcommittee on Consumer Privacy and Data Analytics. Michael is a Fellow at For Humanity, an international public interest group that provides audit criteria and governance frameworks to assure the safe use of AI.
Michael is also the Principal of Seventh Samurai, LLC, a legal technology consulting firm, and serves as an expert on complex eDiscovery data issues for law firms, corporations, and government. He has made over 100 presentations as speaker, panelist, and moderator and he has written dozens of articles on AI ethics and governance, eDiscovery, Privacy, and legal technology. Michael has been an adjunct professor at Michigan State University College of Law and Boston University School of Law. He is long time dog rescuer and a volunteer with and past President of the Board of Directors of Greyhound Friends of Hopkinton, Massachusetts (fair warning that if you discuss dogs with him, you will end up rescuing one). He is a graduate of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law (editor of the law journal) and Tufts University (with honors), where he double-majored in areas that have nothing to do with what he does now.
