Michael Bommarito
Managing Member
Michael is a serial entrepreneur, researcher, educator, and advisor with 25 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, governance, and computational modeling.
He has published nearly 50 articles and books in venues including Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, and Cambridge University Press, with nearly 3,800 academic citations. His pioneering work on GPT passing the bar exam has been widely covered in mainstream and legal media.
As an entrepreneur, Michael has co-founded, scaled, and exited multiple technology companies, and has helped raise and deploy over $10B in private capital. He has worked with many of the largest corporations, law firms, and financial institutions.
Michael continues to lead active research in open legal and economic AI, and oversees development of large-scale data infrastructure for responsible LLM training — including assembling over 132 million copyright-clean documents across government, legal, and financial domains.
Experience
- President, ALEA Institute
- CEO, 273 Ventures
- CEO, LexPredict (acquired 2018)
- CodeX Affiliate, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics
- Head of Research, Law Lab, Chicago-Kent College of Law
- Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University College of Law
- Lecturer, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Education
- M.S.E.
- Financial Engineering, University of Michigan
- M.A.
- Political Science, University of Michigan
- B.S.
- Mathematics, University of Michigan
Focus Areas
Highlights
- Nearly 50 publications with 3,800+ academic citations
- Published in Science, Phil. Trans. Royal Society A, Cambridge University Press, PLOS ONE, Journal of Statistical Physics
- Pioneered systematic AI evaluation on professional exams (bar exam, CPA exam)
- Built the KL3M Data Project — 132M+ copyright-clean documents, 1.35 trillion tokens for LLM training
- Created LexNLP, an open source NLP library for legal text
- Developed SCOTUS prediction models achieving 70.2% accuracy across 240,000+ justice votes
- Maintainer of FOLIO — 18,000+ standardized legal concepts across 10 languages
- Author: This Is Server Country, The Math Inside the Machine, AI for Law and Finance
- Fastcase 50 legal innovator (2019)
- NSF Fellow (IDEAS-IGERT)
Awards & Recognition
- Fastcase 50 (2019)
- NSF Fellowship, IDEAS-IGERT (2009–2010)
- Google Summer of Code (2007, 2008, 2009)
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