Our Team
Who We Are
Conceived by litigators, built by the finest computer scientists and engineers. While clerking for an appellate court judge, the founders recognized that the legal technology applications available on the market were not designed with litigators in mind. Existing software did not aggregate all of the case information in the same place, did not allow attorneys to effectively search the case file, and did not include tools that allowed litigators to devise case strategy. After completing their clerkship, the founders went into private practice together and decided to create a workspace that was designed for litigators. They teamed up with software engineers from Carnegie Mellon to create a secure platform where attorneys could employ AI to alleviate the burden of litigation.
Jeffrey Chivers
CEO, Head of Product
Jeff co-founded Syllo in 2019 to build software for litigation that would dramatically improve the working lives of litigation attorneys and paralegals, and, by doing so, enable them to better and more broadly serve the administration of justice.
Before launching Syllo, Jeff spent more than ten years of his career in litigation, first with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and later in small class-action boutiques. He previously clerked for the Honorable Pamela K. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Jeff received a J.D. magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard College. Jeff has been a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he has co-taught Artificial Intelligence, the Legal Profession, and Procedure. He also co-teaches Civil Procedure at Yale Law School, which teaches students procedure doctrine, introduces them to the latest advancements in technology, and explores how litigation procedure should evolve in response to advancements in AI. Jeff welcomes the opportunity to speak with law students, lawyers, professors, in-house counsel, and firm leaders about how artificial intelligence has and will continue to shape the practice of law.
Theodore Rostow
COO, CSO
Theo co-founded Syllo to build litigation software that could deliver reliable AI workflows and revolutionize the delivery of litigation services by combining structured data and deep learning and other AI techniques.
Before launching Syllo, Theo spent more than five years of his career in litigation, where he worked first for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and later for a small, tech-enabled litigation boutique. He also clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Theo received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal of Law and Technology, and received his B.A. summa cum laude from Carleton College.
Theo has been a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, where he has co-taught Artificial Intelligence, the Legal Profession, and Procedure, a seminar focused on the ramifications of AI for legal practice, legal ethics, civil procedure, and dispute resolution. He also co-teaches Civil Procedure at Yale Law School, which teaches students procedure doctrine, introduces them to the latest advancements in technology, and explores how litigation procedure should evolve in response to advancements in AI.
Amy Slagle
CTO
Amy joined Syllo in 2023 and leads the company’s engineering team. She received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has over 15 years of industry experience.
Eric Wall
Executive Vice President
Eric joined Syllo in 2024. He spearheads the company’s efforts to further expand its network of users and develop new relationships with law firms, legal service providers, and in-house legal departments.
Eric previously served as CEO of Equivity, which provides dedicated virtual assistant services to individuals and organizations. Prior to Equivity, he spent more than a decade as a litigator, serving most recently as a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, where he assisted technology companies in litigating patent disputes. Eric holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BS in Finance from Georgetown University. He has written extensively about how generative AI will impact legal practice.
Product & Engineering
Syllo’s product development team is a multi-disciplinary team of litigators, paralegals, eDiscovery professionals, designers, and engineers based in New York, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. The engineering team comprises math, computer science, linguistics, and human-computer-interaction graduates from leading universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and Columbia University. Before joining Syllo, each of Syllo‘‘s engineering leads worked in security– and privacy-conscious industries in the United States, including healthcare and banking. Drawing on decades of experience designing, building, and monitoring enterprise software systems, the Syllo team is committed to delivering the most powerful, intuitive, and secure AI-powered workspace for litigation.
Customer Success
Syllo’s customer success team is a multi-disciplinary team of experienced AI experts, litigators, eDiscovery professionals, and paralegals. The team works closely with case teams to execute key deliverables, consult on how AI can be used to solve key challenges, and train case teams to get the most out of Syllo. The team also works with litigation technology and eDiscovery departments and firm leaders to develop curriculums and provide trainings for Syllo.
