From Tinder to Legal AI: How Ruben Miessen’s LEGALFLY Reinvents In-House Legal Teams - S10E31
Legally Speaking PodcastShow Notes
On today’s Legally Speaking Podcast, I am delighted to be joined by Ruben Miessen. Ruben is the CEO and Co-Founder of LEGALFLY, a European enterprise legal AI company, building a secure, governed legal operating system for in-house teams in regulated industries. Before founding LEGALFLY, Ruben worked as a senior product manager at Tinder, where he led initiatives and built a team that would later become the founding team behind LEGALFLY. With his co-founders, Ruben identified how legal bottlenecks could slow down businesses, whilst legal teams were strained under pressure and spending time onrepetitive tasks. This led to the creation of LEGALFLY. LEGALFLY is expanding internationally, with offices in Ghent and London and Dubai. Ruben has been recognised as one of Forbes Belgium’s 30 Under 30. Today, we are exploring AI, entrepreneurship and the future of legal work. We will explore Ruben’s journey from Tinder to building a legal tech company; the challenges of creating enterprise AI for sensitive legal data; how AI could transform legal workflows and what the legal profession may look like in the years to come.
So why should you be listening in? You can hear Rob and Ruben discussing: - AI-powered legal workflow automation - Secure anonymisation of sensitive documents - Unblocking business teams with AI - Multi-step workflows across enterprise teams - Expanding globally across regulated industries.
Connect with Ruben Miessen here - https://be.linkedin.com/in/rmiessen
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