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You know who else is here at Startup Boston Week? Our friends at Suffolk University Law School, that’s who. Moderated by Professor Gabriel Teninbaum, a panel with Dean Andrew Perlman, alumna Julia Rodgers, Esq., JD ’15, and Bryan Liu, co-founder of LegalZoom, discussed the importance—and inevitability—of technology in the delivery of legal services. Indeed, Dean Perlman has made tech and AI a cornerstone of a Suffolk Law education. He held up Rodgers as a perfect example of this trend: she studied legal technology as a Suffolk Law student, then worked in family law, and soon realized that a lot of what she was doing at her firm could be automated. That’s how HelloPrenup was created (and went on to do very well on “Shark Tank”). While the legal profession has often been leery of technology—“there are lots of guardians,” said Liu—Rodgers said the lawyers who work on HelloPrenup really like the fact that the technology makes their jobs easier, allowing them to edit right on the platform, store oft-used legal phrases in a “clause library,” and to spend more time with clients. Perlman wants law students to understand the benefits of generative AI, which will increasingly be a part of the profession. “We want to help prepare Suffolk Law and our students for a rapidly changing world.”

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Introducing Keel. Over the past few months, Johnny Ni (Recruiting), Babak Kia (Programming), James Ryan (Strategy), and I worked together to build Keel —?the residential summer startup accelerator for Ivy+ founders in NYC. We’re hosting 19 early-stage teams —?29 founders from 9 top schools — in NYC for the summer, providing 24/7 office space, housing stipends, advising and mentoring, startup programming, meals, and more. We welcomed Keel Cohort 1.0 this weekend with a dinner, office tour, pitches, and a boat outing on the Hudson. We were blown away by the conviction our founders have for their ventures, and we can’t wait to see their 0-1s these next 8 weeks. We believe more top talent should be building companies. That’s why we’re building the incentive structures to help founders say no to their summer offers, specifically in the NYC ecosystem in which programs like ours are few and far between. Thank you again to our partners Babak Kia, James Ryan, Afshin Safavi, Bummock AI, ForgeVentures.ai, & Link Ventures for helping make this happen and for putting their support behind Keel, our founders, and the NYC startup ecosystem. Keel Cohort 1.0 is happening now. If you’d like to join us as a founder, advisor, sponsor, or investor, feel free to email me at [email protected]. CC:? William Zhang, Miles Pines, Adam Achebe, Joshua Siegel, Ben O'Keefe, Shizhe He, Will Schrepferman, Aaron Berger, David Hacker, Aidan Pratt ??, Joel Jaison, George Sehremelis, Amrita Bhasin, Toms Ce?, Shrey Jain, Ananth Veluvali, Soham Govande, Andrew Gao, Andrew Park, Gautham R., Sarvesh Babu, Alex Noviello, Andrew Noviello, Bera Demirbilek, Trishala Jain, Pranav Ramesh, Dinesh Vasireddy