News from Paximal

Paximal CEO Ian Schick joins the panel “Tools of the Trade: AI Automation of IP Applications & Enforcement” at the 8th Annual AI & Robotics National Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law on October 12, 1:00–2:00 p.m. PDT.

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CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, has launched the Keystone Initiative, a program to define how the next generation of lawyers becomes competent to supervise AI-generated legal work. Paximal co-founder and CEO Ian Schick leads the initiative as a CodeX Fellow, with Google as anchor sponsor and a dozen Am Law firms in conversation as charter participants.

Paximal has added Ken Crutchfield, Founder and CEO of Spring Forward Consulting, as an advisor. Ken spent six years as Vice President and General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US, and before that ran Bloomberg Tax Technology as Senior VP and General Manager, including the launch of its Advantage SaaS platform. His career spans P&L leadership at Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis and Bloomberg BNA, and he serves on the TLTF Summit Advisory Board.

Paximal co-founder and CEO Ian Schick has been appointed a Non-Residential Fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. CodeX is a joint center of Stanford Law School and the Stanford Department of Computer Science focused on computational law, and the community from which Lex Machina and Ravel emerged.

Ian Schick presented Paximal at the LegalTech Workshop at Bonny Doon, the invitation-only gathering of legal-technology founders, investors and law-firm innovation leaders hosted by Doon Insights, in its 10th-anniversary year.

Paximal has added Sri Iyer, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Fortreum, as an advisor. Sri leads Fortreum’s unified technology and product organization following its acquisition of Kovr AI, the AI-native compliance automation company he co-founded and led as CTO. Before Kovr he led AWS Solutions Architecture teams for AI/ML, Quantum and Edge at Amazon, and directed AI practices at Guidehouse and PwC. He is a U.S. Army veteran.

Paximal joined the National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) for an education webinar on AI-enabled filing strategies: rolling provisionals, provisional netting, cluster filing, and the duties that attach to AI-assisted drafting under the USPTO’s rules of practice.

Paximal exhibited at the National Association of Patent Practitioners’ 2026 Annual Meeting & Conference, meeting the solo and small-firm practitioners who make up the heart of NAPP’s membership and who have been among the earliest adopters of Born Strong™ drafting.