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Board Member and Lead Investor
Apr 2025
Justice Bid is a leading legal technology company transforming how corporate law departments source and manage legal services. Our platform streamlines the RFP, auction, and rate review process, enabling legal teams to identify the right firms, optimize costs, and improve efficiency. With robust data analytics, automation, and benchmarking tools, we help companies make smarter, faster, and more strategic decisions in selecting outside counsel. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Justice Bid simplifies legal sourcing, reduces administrative burdens, and ensures greater transparency. Our platform also advances diversity by providing data-driven insights to promote impact. Learn more at JusticeBid.com.
Board Member
Mar 2025
The Warsaw Freedom Institute (WFI) is an independent Polish-American think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to strengthen the geo-strategic alliance between the United States and Poland, fostering shared values of freedom, democracy, and security through leadership development and collaborative initiatives.
Building on the success of proven leadership programs in Poland, WFI fosters a new generation of civic and policy leaders, drives strategic conversations on security, energy, and economic cooperation, and creates vital transatlantic networks.
Through public forums, leadership training, and strategic convenings, we are working to ensure that U.S.–Poland relations remain a cornerstone of security, prosperity, and freedom in a rapidly changing world.
Board Member and Lead Investor
Jun 2024
Less time with contracts. More time for business. 🚀
Set the pace for your business by generating and signing agreements with the fastest document workflow solution.
Board Observer and Lead Investor
Jul 2023
Law firms have long struggled with having clean, accurate, and readily available data at their fingertips. Beyond some flavor of financial warehouse, firms have increasingly been challenged with having faster, easier access to all its data. With greater client demands, competition, and stress on firm leadership to manage less on gut intuition, being a data-driven law firm has become a strategic imperative.
Leveraging his 25+ years in the legal industry as CIO/CKO at Sheppard Mullin, Cadwalader and Reed Smith alongside consulting for 7 years to many of the top firms in the globe, Tom Baldwin has become an expert on law firm data. In his 7 years of consulting he started a data practice and led data strategy engagements, management/executive committee dashboard design and data lake envisioning efforts at many Am Law 200 firms. These experiences sharpened his views on the challenges law firms face with data and how to solve them, but there was no easy answer.
We realized there needed to be a product on the market to help firms solve this problem. Firms had to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on out-of-industry data people who needed years to figure things out, only to realize that there was no tangible outcome in sight. Or buy a narrowly focused, fit-for-purpose, data solution that may solve one need but not provide a holistic view of all their data – integrated in a safe, secure way and provide simple and easy dashboards for lawyers and business professionals. Until now.
Investor
Jun 2023
Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company that builds technology to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it.
Its extensible, AI-powered cloud platform, RelativityOne, transforms complex data into actionable insights at massive scale for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other legal use cases.
The world’s largest law firms and corporations, government agencies, and a robust network of channel partners rely on Relativity’s legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters.
The company also expands access to technology by providing its platform at no cost to academic institutions through its Relativity Academic program and to organizations supporting pro bono legal work through its Justice for Change initiative.
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2025
Board Member and Lead Investor
Apr 2025
Justice Bid is a leading legal technology company transforming how corporate law departments source and manage legal services. Our platform streamlines the RFP, auction, and rate review process, enabling legal teams to identify the right firms, optimize costs, and improve efficiency. With robust data analytics, automation, and benchmarking tools, we help companies make smarter, faster, and more strategic decisions in selecting outside counsel. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Justice Bid simplifies legal sourcing, reduces administrative burdens, and ensures greater transparency. Our platform also advances diversity by providing data-driven insights to promote impact. Learn more at JusticeBid.com.
Board Member
Mar 2025
The Warsaw Freedom Institute (WFI) is an independent Polish-American think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. Our mission is to strengthen the geo-strategic alliance between the United States and Poland, fostering shared values of freedom, democracy, and security through leadership development and collaborative initiatives.
Building on the success of proven leadership programs in Poland, WFI fosters a new generation of civic and policy leaders, drives strategic conversations on security, energy, and economic cooperation, and creates vital transatlantic networks.
Through public forums, leadership training, and strategic convenings, we are working to ensure that U.S.–Poland relations remain a cornerstone of security, prosperity, and freedom in a rapidly changing world.
2024
Board Member and Lead Investor
Jun 2024
Less time with contracts. More time for business. 🚀
Set the pace for your business by generating and signing agreements with the fastest document workflow solution.
2023
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jul 2023
OnDean Forward invests in software companies focused on solving problems for customers in regulated markets across the US and Europe.
We are a group of entrepreneurs, operators, and investors with decades of experience building businesses in legal tech, compliance, and other regulatory technology.
Our portfolio includes Entegrata, Eudia, Joggr, JusticeBid, Pergamin, Relativity, Responsiv, and TheContractNetwork, among others.
Board Observer and Lead Investor
Jul 2023
Law firms have long struggled with having clean, accurate, and readily available data at their fingertips. Beyond some flavor of financial warehouse, firms have increasingly been challenged with having faster, easier access to all its data. With greater client demands, competition, and stress on firm leadership to manage less on gut intuition, being a data-driven law firm has become a strategic imperative.
Leveraging his 25+ years in the legal industry as CIO/CKO at Sheppard Mullin, Cadwalader and Reed Smith alongside consulting for 7 years to many of the top firms in the globe, Tom Baldwin has become an expert on law firm data. In his 7 years of consulting he started a data practice and led data strategy engagements, management/executive committee dashboard design and data lake envisioning efforts at many Am Law 200 firms. These experiences sharpened his views on the challenges law firms face with data and how to solve them, but there was no easy answer.
We realized there needed to be a product on the market to help firms solve this problem. Firms had to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on out-of-industry data people who needed years to figure things out, only to realize that there was no tangible outcome in sight. Or buy a narrowly focused, fit-for-purpose, data solution that may solve one need but not provide a holistic view of all their data – integrated in a safe, secure way and provide simple and easy dashboards for lawyers and business professionals. Until now.
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