Sean Norick Long

OCI Tracker

Open OCI Tracker Live

Summary: Web-scraped 160 law firm websites and built a database of 5,000 Georgetown Law alumni. First-year students track applications and see, from crowdsourced data, which firms are moving and the minimum GPA that reached each interview stage.

Highlights: Nearly 400 1Ls track thousands of applications through it. I collect student feedback during the day while working 60-hour weeks at my firm, then push fixes with Claude Code every evening. Exploring monetization through law firm sponsorships, with a three-tier model where the primary revenue stream is intent data showing which firms students are tracking.

HKS Course Search

Open Life at Kennedy Course Search

Summary: Scraped 3,000+ individual course evaluation PDFs from the Kennedy School website, structured 20 years of data, and built an interactive scatter plot mapping every course by instructor rating and workload. 80% of the student body used it each semester.

Highlights: Course evaluations were trapped in thousands of individual PDFs. I scraped them, structured the data, and built an interactive tool. The green quadrant (high-rated, low-workload courses) was the moment students understood the value. Harvard commissioned me to build a follow-on product: a course-swap optimization algorithm that facilitates multi-student exchanges. A non-technical administrator ran it on her own for six semesters.

Court Fee Waiver Automation

Open Digital Access to Justice Paper

Summary: Built a tool for legal aid attorneys in Oklahoma that automates the process of determining client eligibility for court fee waivers, expanding access to justice for rural counties.

Highlights: Partnered with the Fines and Fees Freedom Fund (F4) to build and pilot digital tools across 50 client cases. I also built a pipeline that scraped and structured 60,000 Oklahoma court dockets, including unstructured docket text, to identify waiver-eligible cases for proactive outreach. One local attorney said their “current Excel spreadsheet does half of this a quarter as well” and that the tools “reduce ten steps into one.” Published as “Digital Access to Justice: Automating Court Fee Waivers in Oklahoma” in the Georgetown Law Technology Review. Awarded 1st Place in the 2023 Georgetown Technology Law Writing Competition. Donated the $4,000 prize to F4.

Policymaker Matching Tool

Summary: Built at Apolitical using Python, SQL, and NLP (Word2vec) to help policymakers find peers working on similar projects across 170 countries.

Highlights: Governments were relying on hallway conversations and expensive consultants to learn what worked elsewhere. I built a tool that matched public servants by prior project history so they could find peers directly. Also built a visualization tool using the Twitter API to map influential sub-communities within policy areas. These network graphs identified communities we were missing and supported Apolitical's growth campaigns. The resulting lists of influential policymakers were tweeted by Emma Watson, Justin Trudeau, and the Mayor of Paris.

Section 230 Citation Network

Summary: Created a citation network graph from amicus briefs in Gonzalez v. Google to visualize which experts were most influential in the Section 230 debate as it reached the Supreme Court.

Highlights: Mapped citation relationships across briefs to surface the most-cited voices. Built during the Google Public Policy Fellowship at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Fines and Fees Freedom Fund (F4)

Description: Built and piloted F4's initial digital tools across 50 client cases in Oklahoma, along with additional tools for public defenders and debtors as part of criminal debt assistance clinics.

Apolitical

Description: Joined a startup launched from a kitchen in West London and taught myself Python and SQL. Ran hundreds of user interviews and managed GDPR compliance. Led a panel on ethical AI at Colombia's annual digital government conference. Supported platform growth from launch to 110,000 policymakers from 170 countries.

Harvard Kennedy School

Description: Built three products for students, administrators, and legal aid attorneys, including a course-swap algorithm commissioned by the university. Worked 10 hours/week alongside a full course load.

Bipartisan Policy Center

Description: Wrote articles and interviewed government officials on data privacy, open data, and AI risks. Created citation network graphs from Supreme Court briefs to map expert influence on Section 230.

Colorado Office of the Attorney General

Description: Wrote memoranda on privacy guidance as the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Team drafted first-in-the-nation regulations on automated decision-making and data protection assessments. Used NLP to analyze 1,900 public comments to the FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Prepared 30(b)(6) deposition witnesses in a multistate antitrust litigation.

U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

Description: Managed a team of four as lead paralegal in a litigation challenging hospital anti-steering provisions. Senior paralegal on U.S. v. Anthem, which blocked a $54 billion health insurance merger. Managed 620+ document productions from 200+ third-party subpoenas. Received the Assistant Attorney General Award for service on the Anthem trial team.

Georgetown University Law Center

Details: GPA: 3.86 (Top 15%). Technology Law Scholar. Westin Scholar, awarded by faculty to one JD student for leadership in privacy law. Dean's Certificate, awarded to fewer than 5% of graduates for service to the academic community. CALI Awards in Law of Robots, Experimental Jurisprudence, Hot Topics in Antitrust, and Communication Design and Law.

Harvard Kennedy School

Details: Full-tuition scholarship. David Martin Graduate Student Leadership Forum Fellow, selected among 30 students from across all twelve Harvard graduate schools. Selected to serve as Course Assistant for Empirical Methods and completed Econometrics coursework at Harvard Kennedy School under an instructor who is a Vice President at Analysis Group. Member, Harvard Innovation Lab. Google Public Policy Fellow.

University of Notre Dame

Details: Hesburgh Program in Public Service. International Scholars Program. Founder and President, bridgeND.