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Ryan Juliano

Ryan Juliano

Founder, Darwin Legal — fractional GC & corporate attorney for startups

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Jamestown, Rhode Island
Joined October 2025

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Summary

Corporate counsel and platform builder: Ryan blends traditional transactional and corporate-law experience (Kirkland & Ellis, Partridge Snow & Hahn) with product-minded practice leadership at Howell Legal and the launch of Darwin Legal. He focuses on delivering practical, founder-friendly counsel through platformized and subscription models for early-stage companies. howell-legal+2
Active in legal‑tech and community advising: He participates in legal communities (HeyCounsel), advises legal‑tech startups (Spellbook), and publicly experiments with AI-assisted drafting and tooling—bringing practitioner feedback into product development. heycounsel+2
Scholarship and legal writing: Trained at Cornell Law (J.D.) and NYU (LL.M.), Ryan published a Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy note on the Solicitor General's role as amicus curiae—evidence of continued engagement with doctrinal and empirical legal scholarship. cornell+1
Licensed, regionally based practitioner: He is licensed in multiple jurisdictions and is currently associated with Darwin Legal (Jamestown, RI) while having operated from the Providence, RI entrepreneurial legal ecosystem with Howell Legal. ca+1

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Writes and speaks about legal operations, legal tech, and product-design in legal practice; active on X (tweets on legal tech and practice topics). medium+1