Adam Ziegler

Adam Ziegler is Goodwin’s Director of Innovation Technology. He is responsible for helping the firm apply technology in new ways to enhance its services and operations. Adam is an experienced lawyer and hands-on legal technology leader with deep expertise in software design, development and product management within the legal industry.

Prior to rejoining Goodwin in 2024, Adam held senior roles in venture-backed startups working to apply AI and automation within legal, and he advised numerous startups and investors on developments in the legal technology space. He also spent several years as Director of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, where he led a multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, lawyers and librarians building custom open-source software. Among many other initiatives, Adam led efforts to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available online as machine-readable data, to ensure the long-term reliability of ephemeral web citations used by courts, scholars and lawyers, and to enable legal educators to create and publish digital casebooks. The Lab’s software served tens of thousands of researchers, startups, courts, educators, students and lawyers worldwide. Its work was featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Fast Company and many other publications, and won multiple awards. At Harvard Law School, Adam also co-taught Computer Programming for Lawyers, a unique course that blended introductory programming skills with real-world scenarios likely to be faced by practicing lawyers.

Earlier in his career, Adam worked for 10 years as a lawyer specializing in government investigations and complex business litigation. During that time, he served as a partner in a boutique Boston firm and trained as an associate at Covington & Burling in DC and at Goodwin. After law school, Adam clerked for the Hon. James L. Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Fastcase 50 (2017)

Webby Award – Legal (2015) - for Perma.cc (at Harvard Law School)

Legal Hack of the Year Award (2018 & 2019) - for the Caselaw Access Project (at Harvard Law School)