
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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Writing
The Road to Version 1.0, Part 2: One Big Thing
January 1, 2020Medium post about productizing and organizing legal practice (Howell Legal's platform/operational thinking).
Policy Coordination: The Solicitor General as Amicus Curiae in the First Two Years of the Roberts Court
January 1, 2009Law journal note analyzing the Solicitor General's role and success as amicus curiae before the Roberts Court (empirical and doctrinal analysis).
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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
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