
Laura Safdie
Head of Innovation / Legal / Thomson Reuters
Laura Safdie was the Cofounder, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel of Casetext, a legal AI company acquired in 2023 by Thomson Reuters. Casetext is best known for creating CoCounsel, the first AI legal assistant, which leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4 and is used by thousands of law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies, and legal aid organizations.
Before Casetext, Laura practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and previously served in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She graduated from Yale Law School, where she was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal, and clerked for Judge Paul Engelmayer in the Southern District of New York.
Laura is currently on the board of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the advisory board of OneJustice, a California legal aid nonprofit, and the Emerging Leaders Council of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest source of legal aid funding in the United States. Laura has been named among the leading Women in Legal Technology by the American Bar Association and one of the top California Women in Technology Law.