455: Legal Tech, Powered by Machine Learning

Horace Wu joins us to discuss his work on Syntheia, a unique product that helps sift through massive amounts of legal data to augment the capacities and function of law firms.

In this episode you will learn:

• Horace’s life and work in New York City [5:00]
• Syntheia and Horace’s role there [6:25]
• Horace’s background [12:07]
• Nearmap [16:35]
• Syntheia NLP use cases [21:46]
• Design, coding, and the team [34:19]
• What skills does one need for this field? [41:41]
• What would Horace do differently and what is he excited for? [46:15]

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