David A. Rueff Jr.

David A. Rueff Jr. is a shareholder in the Jackson office of Baker Donelson and is the Firm's Chief Client Solutions Group Officer. He is responsible for oversight of an innovation team at Baker Donelson which includes responsibilities for knowledge management, legal project management, pricing, and legal research. David regularly works with lawyers and clients to develop unique pricing and technology solutions. Prior to law school, David worked in the technology industry for a hardware and software manufacturer where he was first exposed to project management, agile and the development software applications for the engineering industry. David has been a practicing lawyer for over 20 years, is PMP certified through the Project Management Institute and is certified in the Toyota Manufacturing Production System (Lean). David's practice included both litigation and transactional matters, but in later years, was primarily focused on the distribution of federal grants to victims of hurricane and flood disasters. David has staffed and managed project teams in Mississippi, New York, Texas, New Jersey, and Louisiana. His experience includes the management and oversight of a program legal department for 2 years that included a team of 11 attorneys and 20 paralegals. David was also responsible for the development of the Firm's patent pending legal project management model - BakerManage®, the Firm's Lean model - BakerLeanTM and the Firm's proprietary budgeting tool - Budget Designer. In 2018, David was the architect of a new team at Baker Donelson that included knowledge management, data, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, automation, and legal research. David is a regular speaker on the topics of legal project management, pricing, process improvement and legal technology.