Legal AI · AI and Law · Intellectual Property

I am Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés , also Ritchie, entrepreneur in Legal AI, author and AI communicator for lawyers in Mexico MX. I live in San Francisco and I build Lawgic, Legalkit and Lawgic PI.

I build products, education and public conversation so that lawyers, companies and regulators adopt AI with sound legal judgment.

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01 Training

Professional training and legal education applied to AI.

The career of Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés combines Law, interface design and business scaling. From that foundation he builds legal education platforms for lawyers, firms, universities and companies that need to understand AI, Intellectual Property, legal automation and regulation.

Bachelor of Laws Universidad Panamericana

Legal foundation in Mexican law for intellectual property, technology, software, contracts and legal innovation.

BFA in UX/UI Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Training in interface design to translate legal judgment into clear, usable products.

Business Scaling Stanford LBAN / SLEI

Participation in the Latino Business Action Network, cohort 15, with a focus on business scaling.

Programs at Lawgic

Lawgic programs where I serve as professor, creator and educator.

Courses, events and labs in legal education where I translate artificial intelligence, Intellectual Property and technology into clear practice for legal teams.

02 Articles

Articles, columns and essays on legal AI.

Public archive on AI and Law, copyright, regulation, LegalTech, legal automation, legal agents, data, software and intellectual property. This page serves as a canonical index for Aldo Ricardo, Ricardo Rodríguez, Ritchie Rodríguez and Ritchie Ro.

AI and Law AI and Intellectual Property artificial intelligence regulation Legal AI Mexico Digital justice legal agents San Francisco + Mexico

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Complete archive of my public articles on AI and Law. Filter by topic.

Mexico Business NewsBlue Ocean: Why Mexico Should Build for Agentic Payments NowMexico Business NewsHow AI is Transforming Mexico’s Courts: The Case for InnovationMexico Business NewsOpenClaw and the Uncomfortable Future of Remote Work in LatamRegulation & PolicyYour Fear of AI Is Already Costing Us: What the Reform to Article 87 RevealsAI & LawLegal personhood for AI: the coming economy is already shopping for jurisdictionAI for LawyersThe Day a Mexican Lawyers' Chat Became Silicon ValleyAI & LawThe Pulse of Legal AI Is Taken at Stanford. LLM x LawDigital Justice & LegalTechJustic-IA Has Finally Come to MexicoAI for LawyersThe generation of lawyers who don't use AI because they won't do what they should know best how to do: read a contract.AI for LawyersThe Efficiency Paradox: When AI Also Puts Your Profession at RiskRegulation & PolicyMexico vs. Technology: One Law at a TimeAI for LawyersIs ChatGPT Confidential?AI for LawyersThe Broken Promise of Legal TechnologyRegulation & PolicyMexico 2025: The AI That Lives in PowerPointAI for LawyersIt's not that AI is hard. The problem is that your law firm doesn't want to change anythingAI for LawyersLAI OffsAI for LawyersProfessional Negligence in AIRegulation & PolicyFalse Start: Peru's AI Regulation Celebrated Without Being ReadAI & LawWhy Requiring 'Sufficient' Human Collaboration in the AI Creation Process Not Only Fails to Solve the Problem, but Makes It WorseIP & CopyrightThe Spectrums of Originality: A Problematic Proposal for AI CopyrightIP & CopyrightThe Potential Breakdown of Good Faith in Copyright Law in the Face of Works Made with Artificial IntelligenceIP & CopyrightRuling 6/2025: Between the Denial of Authorship to AI and the Questions That Were Never AskedDigital Justice & LegalTechJurimetrics: The Icebreaker of Legal AI in Mexican JusticeRegulation & PolicyYou Don't Know What You Don't Know: The Illusion of Regulating Artificial IntelligenceAI & LawYour Emotions Are Just Data, and They Have You Perfectly MappedIP & Copyright\"Inauthentic Content\": YouTube Redefines Intellectual Property in the Age of AIIP & CopyrightFair Use for AI Training: A Historic Precedent That Provides Certainty (and Defies Expectations)Regulation & PolicyWhy Do 81.4% of Mexicans Ignore the Technology That Is Transforming the World?IP & CopyrightWhat Would the OpenAI Proposal for a National AI Action Plan Look Like on Copyright If It Had Been Proposed in Mexico.IP & CopyrightA False Start: The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property in MexicoRegulation & PolicyThe Tipping Point of the AI and IP DilemmaRegulation & PolicyThe AI Gap in Mexico: Why We Are Falling Behind and How We Can Close the DistanceIP & CopyrightAI and Deepfakes in Mexico: The Dilemmas Beyond the ObviousIP & CopyrightError #3: Trying to Protect Prompts as Copyright WorksIP & CopyrightCommon Mistake #2: Believing That AI-Generated Works Have Partial Protection.IP & CopyrightCommon Mistakes in Copyright and AI (Part 1 of 3)IP & CopyrightWhen AI Challenges Your Authorship: The Setback That Forces Us to Rethink EverythingDigital Justice & LegalTechExpress Justice: Would You Trust Your Case to an AI?Digital Justice & LegalTechCTO: The New Possible Direction Every Law Firm Should ConsiderAI for LawyersWhy AI Biases Matter in the Legal IndustryDigital Justice & LegalTechThe Differences Between LegalTech/LawTech, RegTech, JusticeTech, and Legal AI: A Complete GuideIP & CopyrightMy Participation in the Copyright and Collective Rights Forum. (January 8, 2025)Digital Justice & LegalTechThe Agentic AI: What Comes After ChatGPT. Attorney, This One's for YouIP & CopyrightThe New Paradigm of Originality in Copyright LawRegulation & PolicyI Tested 6 AIs with a Mexican Law Query: From Brilliant to DangerousIP & CopyrightThe Right Questions at the Right Time: How the UK's AI Consultation Can Guide INDAUTOR's National DialogueAI for LawyersLegal Education for the Present: Balancing AI and Legal JudgmentIP & CopyrightThe Copyright Fallacy for AI: Analysis of Ruling 788/24-EPI-01-2AI & LawThe New Legal FrontierIP & CopyrightData in Dispute: The Conflict of Training AI with Intellectual PropertyAI & LawWhen A.I. Drives Itself Through San Francisco: The Arrogance of Thinking You're IndispensableIP & CopyrightThe Authorship Paradox in the Age of AI: Between Ownership and Creativity (November 2024)
03 Books

Reference books and publications on AI and Intellectual Property.

Beyond articles, columns, and events, the published work consolidates the conversation on originality, authorship, copyright, academic co-authorships, and intangible assets in the face of artificial intelligence systems.

Cover of the book Inteligencia Artificial y Propiedad Intelectual: Versión 2025 by Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés
Book · Spanish Edition · 2025

Inteligencia Artificial y Propiedad Intelectual: Versión 2025

5.0 18 reviews

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Threshold 2025 is a current and detailed snapshot of how artificial intelligence is transforming the intellectual property landscape in Mexico and around the world.

The book analyzes cases that redefine authorship, originality, and rights in an accelerated technological environment, with attention to creative industries such as music, film, photography, and graphic design.

It connects disputes such as New York Times vs. OpenAI and Getty Images vs. Stability AI with the legal frameworks of China, the United States, and Mexico. It is designed for jurists, academics, creators, and technology professionals who need to anticipate the changes in IP driven by AI.

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Cover of the book Inteligencia Artificial: Concepciones para América Latina
Co-authorship · collective work · pp. 327-348

Inteligencia Artificial: Concepciones para América Latina

Contribution as co-author with the essay “La inteligencia artificial y el derecho de autor en México: entre la negación dogmática y la necesidad de evolución jurídica”, published on pages 327 to 348.

The essay connects AI, copyright, originality, and legal evolution from the Mexican context, within a collective work on the artificial intelligence debates in Latin America.

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04 Events

Events, media, and public appearances.

Conferences, classes, panels, interviews, and appearances on AI and Law, AI and Intellectual Property, AI regulation, LegalTech, and digital justice.

Upcoming event

Keynote lecture · State Judicial Training School — Judiciary of the State of Michoacán

Artificial Intelligence in the Justice System: opportunities, limits and responsible use

Opening keynote at the Third Conference on Legal Updating and Hearing Simulation, at the invitation of the State Judicial Training School. A pro bono engagement for judges and judicial staff of the state. In Spanish.

Oct 17, 2026 · 9:50–10:50 am (CDMX) · José Ma. Morelos Auditorium, Palacio de Justicia, Morelia
Upcoming event

Special session · Claude Community Mexico — Senate of the Republic

Claude at the Mexican Senate

Co-hosting the first gathering of the Claude community at the Mexican Senate: legislators, public sector and the people actually building with AI in Mexico, around one table. Real cases of AI in public service, and a panel on talent, governance and technological sovereignty. Non-commercial and non-partisan, registration by approval. In Spanish.

Oct 20, 2026 · 4:00–6:30 pm (CDMX) · Senate of the Republic, Paseo de la Reforma 135, Mexico City Registration and details →
Recent event

Workshop · College of Notaries of the State of Jalisco

Claude in practice: a hands-on workshop

A working session with Jalisco’s notaries on the step from asking an AI questions to putting it to work on your own documents, with the controls notarial practice demands. In Spanish.

Sep 30, 2026 · 7:00–9:00 pm (CDMX) · online
Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogadosio Justice
Recent event

Class · Diploma in Generative AI for the Legal Profession — Mexican Bar Association and io Justice

Introduction to legal and general-purpose LLMs

A class in the diploma’s September–November edition. What separates a general-purpose language model from one trained or fine-tuned for legal work, what can reasonably be expected of each, and where their real limits lie. My third consecutive edition on the faculty.

Sep 29, 2026 · 6:00–7:30 pm (CDMX) · online session
Greenberg Traurig
Recent event

Podcast · GT Mexico 15th Anniversary Series — Greenberg Traurig

Trusting AI: What Happens When AI Becomes Your Colleague?

An episode in the series marking fifteen years of Greenberg Traurig’s Mexico City office. The premise: for the first time organizations are not simply using software, they are working alongside systems that reason, create and recommend; and the challenge is no longer adoption but trust. A business-focused conversation, in English.

Sep 28, 2026 · episode recording
Escuela Nacional de Formación Judicial · Poder Judicial de la Federación
Recent event

Expert panel · National School of Judicial Training — Federal Judiciary Council (Mexico)

Digital justice under the National Code of Civil and Family Procedure

I took part as a pro bono panellist in Module IV: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ODR). The topics: AI in precedent analysis and in drafting judicial opinions; ethical limits, algorithmic bias and the principle of the human judge at the centre; automation of routine procedural steps and mass rulings; and online dispute resolution. An academic activity for judges, with an assessment for accreditation.

Sep 24, 2026 · 4:00–6:00 pm (CDMX) · remote session
Abogadas MX
Recent event

Course · Abogadas MX — Artificial Intelligence for the legal profession

Two sessions: AI fundamentals and agents

I went back to the Abogadas MX course with two online sessions. The second is on agentic AI: what changes when the tool stops answering questions and starts carrying out tasks on its own judgment, and what the supervising lawyer is left to decide. I proposed this topic myself, because the jump from assistant to agent is the one our profession is explaining least.

Sep 21 & 23, 2026 · online
Poster for the session Labor displacement caused by AI, ANADE Constitutional Law and Amparo Committee, September 10, 2026
Recent event

In-person session · ANADE, Constitutional Law and Amparo Committee

Labor displacement caused by AI

A look at artificial intelligence from a human rights perspective. I take part as a speaker alongside Philippe Prince (Universidad Panamericana), Alix Trimmer (LAIN Laboral Interseccional) and Pablo Pruneda Gross (CCOIA, UNAM); moderated by Víctor Manuel Pérez. Venue: Estoril Polanco, Alejandro Dumas 24, Mexico City. Worth 2 points toward ANADE certification.

Sep 10, 2026 · 8:00–10:00 am · Mexico City
Facilitators and attendees of the Claude for Legal Workshop at Von Wobeser y Sierra, Mexico City, August 28, 2026
Recent workshop

Workshop · Claude Community Mexico City — at Von Wobeser y Sierra

Claude for Legal Workshop

A hands-on workshop on applying artificial intelligence to legal work, for practising lawyers. I took part as a facilitator alongside Marcela A. Calderón Fernández and Sindy Ortiz Castillo; hosted by Von Wobeser y Sierra, S.C. The session was not about efficiency but about judgment: how to use these tools to analyse, question and approach legal problems from new angles.

Aug 28, 2026 · Mexico City
Claude Community Mexico City gathering at Galicia, Mexico City, August 27, 2026
Recent gathering

Gathering · Claude Community Mexico City — at Galicia

Legal practice and AI, head-on

A community session at Galicia devoted to discussing, without hedging, what legal practice is facing with artificial intelligence. Thanks to Galicia México and to Xavier Careaga, Ana Paula Boy Matte, Grecia Macías and Ricardo García Giorgana for breaking ground in that conversation.

Aug 27, 2026 · Mexico City
Poster for the talk Confidentiality in the Use of AI by Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez, Legal and Government Affairs Committee of the Internet MX Association, August 13, 2026
Previous talk

Talk · Internet MX Association (AIMX) — Legal & Government Affairs Committee

Is Using AI Confidential?

The maze of “it depends” in AI confidentiality: which conversations with an AI can end up exposed in litigation, why “no training” does not mean “no retention,” and how each service’s privacy architecture —consumer, enterprise, local— becomes legal architecture. I delivered it to the committee as CEO of Lawgic AI; all 37 slides are available.

Aug 13, 2026 · 10:00 am (CDMX) View the slides (PDF, in Spanish) →
Public presence Photos that map the trajectory: Silicon Valley, Mexico, education, and public conversation.

Visual material to provide human and professional context: training at Stanford LBAN, talks, panels, community, and participation as an expert AI speaker.

Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés in conversation during a professional event in San Francisco
Professional conversation in San Francisco
Group photo of Stanford LBAN with Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés
Stanford LBAN
Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés delivering a talk before an audience at the Consulate of Mexico
Consulmex SF
Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés in a classroom during training at Stanford LBAN
Stanford LLM x LAW Hackathon
Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés participating in a panel on culture, technology, and artificial intelligence
AI and culture panel · INDAUTOR
Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés announced as an expert speaker at AI Summit with OpenAI and Fintual
AI Summit · expert speaker
Living list Talks and appearances.

Editorial record to document forums, courses, diploma programs, interviews, guest lectures, and events where Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés participates as a speaker, professor, or panelist.

Hackathon · May 30, 2026 Lawgic × Claude Recap of the Claude for Lawyers Hackathon

Claude for Lawyers — Hackathon

I organized and ran Lawgic's hackathon with Claude: 30+ lawyers built real legal AI tools. 8 finalists and 3 winners.

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Panel and coordination · April 20, 2026 IIJ UNAM · SCJN · LIDIA

Dialogue Panel: Justic-IA Finally in Mexico

Participation as panelist and coordinator in a public discussion on digital justice, courts, and artificial intelligence in Mexico.

Public source
Workshop · May 19, 2026 Ethereum México · AI x Blockchain Hackathon

Level Up with AI: Tools & Workflows

Hands-on session on tools, AI workflows, and adoption for technical and legal teams.

Public source
Seminar · February 12, 2026 IIJ UNAM · Observatorio IA-MX

Permanent Seminar on Digital Rights and Justice: Observatorio IA-MX

Participation on regulatory tracking, artificial intelligence governance, and regulatory trends in Mexico.

Public source
Panel · October 27, 2025 IIJ UNAM

AI and Copyright in Mexico: Debates and Perspectives

Panelist in a discussion on originality, authorship, the LFDA, and Intellectual Property in the face of AI use.

Public source
Seminar · March 27, 2025 INDAUTOR México

Toward Legislative Harmonization in Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

Participation in a seminar on copyright, AI, creative industries, collective management, and legislative evolution.

Public source
Watch the interview by the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco
05 Projects

Case studies: products that turn legal judgment into Legal AI.

Professional authority rests on real building: education, tools, workflows, and Legal AI products for lawyers, founders, companies, and legal teams.

View of Lawgic Educación
Case study · Legal education Lawgic Educación

Courses, community, and resources to make the adoption of AI, IP, and legal technology accessible.
View of Legalkit
Case study · Legal AI Legalkit

Tools and workflows to transform legal knowledge into clear digital operations.
View of Lawgic PI
Case study · Intellectual property Lawgic PI

Processes, strategy, and 360 search for trademarks, software, intangible assets, and registration risk.
View of the World Atlas of Authorship and AI
Case study · Comparative legal research World Atlas of Authorship and AI

What copyright protection each country grants an AI output: 195 traceable country files separating the model’s output from expression actually executed by a person.
View of the Observatorio IA México tracker: AI in Mexico on a living map
Case study · Research Observatorio IA México

Continuous intelligence on the deployment of AI across the Mexican state: official announcements, bills and court cases, verified and on a living map.
Lawgic Educación Legalkit Lawgic PI Observatorio IA México
06 Storyline

From intellectual property and intangibles to Legal AI.

The professional narrative explains a coherent transition: from the study of intangible assets, licenses, software, and intellectual property to building AI tools applied to law.

Origin

Intellectual property, licenses, royalties, and intangibles

A legal foundation for thinking about software, creativity, data, trademarks, copyright, and generative models.

Building

Lawgic as a laboratory for education and LegalTech

A line of work that blends teaching, product, legal service design, and technology adoption.

Public discussion

LFDA, Article 87, and regulatory fear of AI

Interventions, articles, and events on how regulation can enable or block innovation, authors, users, and model training.

07 Networks

Networks and profiles that connect the professional entity.

A canonical point to unite name variants and public profiles: Aldo Ricardo Rodríguez Cortés, Ricardo Rodríguez, Ritchie Rodríguez, and Ritchie Ro.

LinkedIn Instagram: Ritchie Ro Nexos Podcast Observatorio IA México Atlas of Authorship & AI Lawgic Educación Legalkit Lawgic PI
08 Contact

Let's talk: conferences, media, and collaborations.

Looking for someone for your panel, conference, course, Legal AI project, corporate education, or an interview about AI and law in Mexico? Write to me directly.

ricardo.rodriguez@getlawgic.com LinkedIn Instagram: Ritchie Ro
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