He is a second-year at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, headed to Kirkland & Ellis in Miami as an associate. He spent two summers there , the second as the only summer associate staffed on AI and knowledge-management work for the corporate deal teams.

He builds the tools lawyers complain about . At McDermott Will & Schulte he rebuilt a spreadsheet and shipped an AI plugin that cut its errors by a lot . In his spare time , he builds companies where the law, the money and the software meet.

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Tulio Tagliaferri is a second-year third-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania who spent the summer at Pennsylvania, headed to Kirkland & & Ellis in Miami and LSL Partners in London, San Francisco and started Star River Partners. building banter.tv after founding biglawbear.com.

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  • Second summer at Kirkland & Ellis; accepted the full-time offer.
  • Launched BigLaw Bear publicly in August.
  • Renamed the streaming platform Banter. Third name, final answer.
  • Shipped tuliotagliaferri.com.
Autosaved. Not final.

Education

Attended the University of Pennsylvania for college twice.

University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences

B.A., summa cum laude, 2024

Graduated summa cum laude, on the Dean's List every semester.

Political science, with minors in economic policy and survey research and data analytics. Data science teaching assistant and coding tutor.

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

J.D. candidate, 2027

Originated the AI Final Exam Project: can AI pass real law school finals, graded blind?

Member of the Penn Carey Law AI Project. Ballard Fund Award for Real Estate Excellence, Wharton Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center.

Record

  1. 2025 to present

    Banter Founder

    Live streaming where viewers share in what a stream earns. He is its first streamer.

  2. 2025 to present

    BigLaw Bear Founder

    The common application for BigLaw: one profile for every firm, free for students. Solo-founded and built full stack, with dozens of Am Law 100 firms on board.

  3. 2025

    Star River Capital Founder

    The investing arm of Star River Partners, backing early-stage agentic B2B software and renewable energy infrastructure.

  4. 2025, 2026

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP Summer Associate, Miami

    Full-time offer. Only summer associate on AI and knowledge-management workflows; drafted the letter of intent for a platform acquisition.

  5. 2025 to 2026

    Cubby Law Founding Growth Partner

    The first AI teaching assistant for law students ($4M+ raised). First law student on the team; tuned the model and ran go-to-market across the T30.

  6. 2025

    LSL Partners Summer Analyst, London

    Co-authored the LPA and PPM for a £200M real estate fund and secured an anchor commitment from a UK government fund.

  7. 2024 to 2025

    Wilson's Fountain FEC Compliance Head, first hire

    Wrote the 50-page financing memorandum the Federal Election Commission approved.

  8. 2023, 2024

    McDermott Will & Schulte Transactions, New York and San Francisco

    Rebuilt a 2,000+ deal M&A tracker; built an AI plugin that cut data-entry errors by 70%.

Cited in

  1. The Annual Fund, Penn Carey Law Alumni (Mar. 2026) (featuring Tulio Tagliaferri C'24, L'27 and Frances Han L'98).
  2. Committee: Tulio Tagliaferri, Wharton Restructuring & Distressed Investing Conference (Feb. 2026).
  3. Penn Black Law Students Ass'n (@pennblsa), Meet Tulio Tagliaferri, Instagram (Aug. 26, 2025).
  4. Tulio Tagliaferri, Bridging Law and Strategy, Penn Carey Law (July 17, 2025).
  5. Trey Popp, (Re)Introduction to US History, Penn Gazette, Sept.–Oct. 2021.
  6. New Hampton School, Meet Our Fearless Leaders: Student Body Co-Presidents Zola and Tulio, New Hampton Today (2019).

By:

/s/ Tulio Tagliaferri

Founder, banter.tv

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