Dan Katz is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at 273 Ventures, a legal AI company building the Kelvin Legal Data Operating System. He is also Professor of Law at Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law, Director of The Law Lab, and Academic Director of the Bucerius Center for Legal Technology and Data Science.

Dan earned his Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Policy and J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan. He previously co-founded LexPredict, a legal technology and analytics company acquired by Elevate in 2018, and co-founded the ReInvent Law Laboratory at Michigan State University College of Law.

Dan was named an ABA Journal Legal Rebel and member of the Fastcase 50 for legal innovation. In 2025, the Financial Times recognized him as one of the top 20 legal market shapers of the past 20 years for his work advancing AI in law.

Dan has published in top journals including Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, and PLoS ONE. His research team demonstrated that GPT-4 could pass the bar exam, scoring in the 90th percentile.

Dan's work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Wired. He serves on editorial boards for leading legal AI journals and advises numerous legal tech startups on innovation and technology strategy.