I’m pursuing a joint JD-PhD degree at Harvard Law School and the MIT Media Lab. My work focuses on Computational Law: leveraging computation to analyze, improve, and extend the study and practice of law. My research aims to bridge the gap between technology and law to surface new quantitative insights into jurisprudential systems and to identify computationally-enabled approaches to the practice of law. By formalizing research around computational law, I aim to deepen our understanding of legal processes, while building tools that improve legal practice, expand access to justice, and increase judicial efficacy. I also study the technological transformation of the legal profession and its effect on how organizations manage legal services and risks. To this end, I collaborate with private and public entities around the world to prototype practice-oriented computational legal solutions, deploying and studying computational law in the real world.

As a trained attorney and certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Andrew marries expertise in process improvement, technology, and legal to focus on simple yet powerful solutions that help the firm’s attorneys more easily and more efficiently deliver quality legal services. Andrew is dedicated to finding new ways of using technology to practice better. He wields a unique set of skills, honed during a career in online journalism and through a variety of legal roles with startup companies, government agencies, and legal aid organizations. This legal and technical background allows Andrew to excel as a technologist, consultant, and problem-solver.

Melissa (Moszkowski) Price focuses her practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning matters. She advises clients on estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer and income tax issues, trust and estate administration, wealth transfer techniques and charitable planning. Melissa has significant experience with international tax and estate planning. She advises trustees of foreign trusts with US beneficiaries, individuals moving to and from the US, and families with members residing in multiple jurisdictions. She regularly advises on US information reporting issues, including the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Prior to working at McDermott, Melissa worked in the corporate tax department at another large firm in New York.

Mr. Ecker is a Member of the Business Division of the Philadelphia office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. He negotiates and documents business relationships, including emerging growth & technology, financial institutions and health law. Mr. Ecker represents entrepreneurs, publicly and privately held emerging businesses, corporations, partnerships and joint ventures in diverse industries in a variety of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private finance and corporate governance. His transactional healthcare and e-Commerce practice includes negotiation and preparation of software licenses, as well as joint venture, employment/severance and equity ownership agreements. A frequent lecturer, Mr. Ecker speaks to professional organizations on subjects including legal and corporate developments in healthcare law, e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He is a member of the Philadelphia (Business Law Section), Pennsylvania (Business Law Section) and American (Business and Health Law Section) Bar Associations. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Mr. Ecker is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Pennsylvania. A 1980 graduate of Northwestern University (B.A., economics), he received a JD/MBA from Emory University in 1984 and holds an AV ® rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Ecker can be reached at mecker@eckertseamans.com.