Lecturer Bio
Eugene Cook
Eugene Cook is an attorney licensed in four U.S. jurisdictions and a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong. He holds a JD and an MBA in Operations Management from Southern Methodist University and is a certified software engineer with over thirty years of experience building and operating complex systems at scale, working at the intersection of law, business, and technology.
Eugene maintains offices in the United States and Hong Kong and is based in Portugal. His practice focuses on startups and frontier firms navigating fluid compliance regimes across multiple jurisdictions, with the distinctive ability to not only develop and structure the business, but to write the code himself. This combination of legal practice and hands-on engineering gives him a ground-level understanding of how technology actually works inside professional services firms, not just how vendors say it should.
A veteran speaker at major technology conferences, Eugene now develops continuing legal education programs through Law Firm Lab, where he and his partner help small and mid-sized firms operate at the scale of multinationals by reducing administrative burden, increasing automation, and expanding attorney flexibility. His CLE work includes original frameworks for classifying law firm activities by ethical exposure level, mapping AI provider data policies to professional responsibility obligations, and translating those frameworks into concrete guidance: which providers to use, how to use them within ethical boundaries, and where the limits are.
Eugene's approach to legal technology is shaped by experience on both sides of the build. He has seen firsthand how much time, money, and talent law firms lose to manual processes, redundant data entry, and administrative overhead that could be automated tomorrow. His focus is on helping attorneys capture those gains while staying inside their ethical obligations, not choosing between efficiency and compliance, but getting both.