Legal Roundtable AMA
In this virtual roundtable hosted by the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC), Vermont Small Business Law Center faculty and students open the floor to your toughest legal and regulatory questions. Whether you need clarity on contract clauses with suppliers, guidance on workers’ compensation and employment law, or help choosing the right business structure, no legal topic is off limits. We’ll kick off with brief participant polls to surface the most pressing issues, then tackle submitted questions in real time with analysis and peer insight. This is your chance to ask what you’ve always wondered but never dared voice!
Registration is free, but required: Register Here.
Speaker Bios: Professor Oliver Goodenough, Attorney Aaron Franklin
Oliver Goodenough is an international authority on legal innovation. He is currently a Research Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at Stanford’s CodeX Center for Legal Informatics. At CodeX, he is helping to lead an initiative on comparing machine learning AI approaches to law with more traditional rule-based automation. He is also a Research Fellow of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research.
He is the author or editor of numerous volumes and articles, as well as reports and studies on computational law. In business, until recently he was an officer and director of Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence, Inc., a company applying AI infused automation to the investment management sector. Brooklyn was recently acquired by the global asset manager Nuveen.
Aaron Franklin recently launched a solo legal practice in Windsor County, Vermont, focusing on serving small and medium-sized businesses, particularly those seeking to comply with federal regulatory hurdles such as ITAR. Previously, he worked in New York and London as a corporate attorney at global law firm and as an investment banker at a global bank. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010 and Cornell University in 2005, and clerked at the US Court of International Trade.