Greater Milan Metropolitan Area
💡 Senior Lawyer, Legal Engineer and Legal Tech Ambassador > focus on Privacy, AI & Cybersecurity - international compliance and complex litigation cases (awarded Mario Ubertini national prize). 💻 Legal Tech developer and serial innovator > focus on process automation, legal services productization and strategies to boost adoption maximizing ROI (awarded Top Legal 2021 Prize for PRISCA AI Chatbot). 🗣 Startup Mentor and Advisor > focus on strategical advice to penetrate markets, make useful connections and find product-market fit. 🏖️ Seaside lover > whenever I can, I take the opportunities to visit my home town in the Amalfitan Coast and enjoy the relaxing sound of the waves. 😁I embody the entrepreneurial spirit: I'm known for providing practical, business-oriented advice to dribble legal obstacles while containing risks and solving legal process pain points. 👔 I formerly have operated as senior associate lawyer in the Intellectual Property and Technology Department of DLA Piper, the leading international law firm (Tier 1 in Legal 500 EMEA) where I led the Italian Legal Tech Ambassadors team. 👨🏫I regularly hold post-graduate lessons and international conferences on Data Protection and Legal Tech. You can find my latest articles on Privacy, Cybersecurity and TMT on the main tech-related magazines ( Wired/ Agenda Digitale/ Cybersecurity 360/Blockchain for Business). 📢 As part of my #Giveback projects I lead the Young Legal Innovators Community here on LinkedIn and share news to help intercept the Privacy, LegalTech, TMT and Media trends and gain a competitive edge in the market on my Telegram channel @TechnoLawgy. 🤖 I led the team for the development of Prisca, world's first AI-powered virtual assistant on GDPR and ePrivacy. Here are the latest products I built together with my team: 1) PRISCA AI Compliance >to measure maturity of AI solutions with AI, IP, PRIVACY laws and ISO standards;2) TRANSFER >to help perform risk assessments with regards to international data transfers (sold to over 200 clients worldwide), and 3) DPIA Advance > to perform a Pre-DPIA assessment in order to evaluate when a data processing activity may require to perform a DPIA assessment ex art. 35 of the GDPR. Feel free to contact me if you have any interesting & innovative idea where we could build synergies. ℹ Views are personal and do not represent in any means whatsoever the view of the firm or other partners/associations I collaborate with. www.tommasoricci.consulting | www.technolawgy.it | www.technolawgy.eu
Libra is an AI-powered legal research platform distributed in Italy through Wolters Kluwer, one of the world's leading providers of legal and compliance intelligence. As Country Head of Legal Engineering for the Italian market, I sit at the intersection of legal expertise, product development and AI engineering. I lead the Italian legal engineering team and collaborate daily with Sales, Customer Success, Product and Engineering to design, test and deploy AI-powered workflows and Libra Assistants across the main areas of legal practice. I work directly with clients to understand their use cases, map their processes and configure tailored solutions, translating legal expertise into structured data, prompts and workflows to ensure that AI outputs are accurate and legally sound. I support client pilots and proof-of-concept initiatives by adapting Libra's capabilities to real legal documents, templates and research workflows, acting as a trusted advisor and guiding clients through best practices for AI-assisted legal work. I create training content and educational materials for the Libra Academy to drive product adoption and user success, and host monthly webinars reaching 1,000+ lawyers across Italy on product-specific training and safe AI adoption in legal practice. I channel structured feedback from clients and the Italian market directly into the Product and Engineering roadmap, improving prompt quality, AI accuracy and domain coverage to influence product priorities.
The 2.0 LegalTech and Technology Law hub - on Telegram > https://t.me/TechnoLawgy
I joined the IPT Department in Milan in 2017. Our team is one of the largest in Italy, comprising about 30 professionals, including globally recognized attorneys with exceptional expertise in Information Technology and Intellectual Property law. My responsibilities include addressing commercial and compliance issues, assisting international clients with their business expansion and litigation in front of national and European courts. My focus areas are privacy, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and AI-related issues. Creativity and problem-solving are my key strengths; I use lateral thinking to develop simple solutions for complex problems. My thorough understanding of the technical aspects of IT infrastructures and software allows me to communicate effectively with the business side.
I regularly wrote about the latest news in the legal-tech framework to help intercept the trends and gain a competitive edge in the market. I covered a wide range of topics including privacy, artificial intelligence, IoT, blockchain, eSports, telecommunications and media.
Dealt with international privacy and data protection issues within the Group data protection department (DPA negotiation, advising on banking-finance operations, drafting policies and procedures, monitoring compliance with data protection laws,...). Gained deeper understanding of internal dynamics, roles and business issues involving large financial and insurance institutions.