About the author: Javed Qadrud-Din is a machine learning engineer at Casetext. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining Casetext, he worked for two years as a corporate attorney for startup companies at Fenwick & West LLP, and for three years as an engineer and product manager in IBM’s Watson Group,
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