Stuart Leach

Who are you? Tell us about yourself!

 I’m a 1L at Georgetown Law and a Tech Law & Policy Scholar. Before law school I spent a decade as a software engineer. Outside of tech and law I record music (Leach on Spotify!). 

What drew you to the Tech Law Scholars program? 

 I kept watching products get built and shipped that I knew would end up in court, but the laws that were meant to govern them were passed and litigated at a distance from how the technology actually worked.

The Tech Law & Policy Scholars program closes the gap between expertise (the technical side) and implementation (the legal side). Georgetown takes the technology side seriously, treats it as central to how the law actually functions in 2026, and has unusual faculty depth around AI, privacy, and platform regulation. That combination made the Tech Law Scholars program, and Georgetown more broadly the obvious choice for my next career move.

Before law school, you founded Deliberize, trial-focused analytics platform used to analyze mock jury deliberations. Can you tell me more about this project? Has your time as a law student informed or influenced your plans with Deliberize?

Deliberize started as a trial-analytics tool (now called Deliberize Verdict) built to help trial consultants and lawyers analyze mock jury deliberations. That’s the founding product and where the company name comes from. It came out of work I’d been doing with trial consultants, where the same problem kept surfacing: hours of mock-jury video that nobody had the time to actually mine for the signal the trial team needed.

Law school inspired me to create a second product, Deliberize Discover, which scans websites for tracking technologies that may violate state privacy and consumer-protection statutes across the country, currently 55 distinct trackers across 560+ sites. That branch grew directly out of 1L doctrine and from working with Professor Wilf-Townsend on AI-related litigation. 

The way I think about it now, Verdict and Discover sit at opposite ends of the litigation lifecycle. Discover surfaces privacy cases worth bringing, and Verdict helps you win those cases at trial. Law school is what made me realize that Discover was needed; I don’t think I would have built Discover without my experience as a Tech Law Scholar and Georgetown 1L.

What have you been working on as a summer intern? 

This summer, I’m working with a global health nonprofit through Georgetown’s Tech & Policy Institute. The internship entails helping the organization develop responsible practices for adopting AI tooling across its global health programs, from intake protocols through vendor evaluation. I’m working there about thirty hours a week.

The other ten hours go to a research assistantship with Professor Daniel Wilf-Townsend on AI-related litigation. That work is more academic. It involves reading AI-related class-action complaints and mapping commonalities between them. I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be mentored by someone specializing in the type of research that brought me to law school in the first place.