Law, business and technology. Penn '24. Penn Law '27. Kirkland & Ellis.
He Tulio Tagliaferri is a second-year third-year at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, headed to Kirkland & Ellis in Miami San Francisco as an associate. He spent two summers there at Kirkland & Ellis, the second as the only summer associate staffed on AI and knowledge-management work for the corporate deal teams.
He builds Tulio has a history of building the tools lawyers complain about actually use. At McDermott Will & Schulte he rebuilt a spreadsheet 2,000-deal M&A tracker and shipped an AI plugin that cut its errors by a lot 70%. In his spare time On his own, 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.
Autosaved. Not final.
Work
Banter
Live streaming where the platform keeps viewers share in what a stream earns. He is its first streamer.
BigLaw Bear
The common application for BigLaw. One application per firm. One profile for every firm. Solo-founded and built full stack, with dozens of Am Law 100 firms on board.
Star River Capital
The investing arm of Star River Partners. Backs early-stage agentic B2B software and renewable energy infrastructure.
Cubby Law
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.
Education
Attended the University of Pennsylvania for college twice.
University of Pennsylvania
Political science, with minors in economic policy and survey research and data analytics. Dean's List every semester. Data science teaching assistant and university-hired coding tutor.
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Ballard Fund Award for Real Estate Excellence, Wharton Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center.
Record
- 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.
- 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.
- 2024 to 2025
Wilson's Fountain FEC Compliance Head, first hire
Wrote the 50-page financing memorandum the Federal Election Commission approved.
- 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%.
Changelog
- Shipped tuliotagliaferri.com, the Word-document edition.
- Renamed the streaming platform to Banter. Third name, final answer.
- Simplified starriverpartners.com to one page.
- Started third year at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
- Launched BigLaw Bear publicly: one profile for every firm, free for students.
- Finished a second summer at Kirkland & Ellis. Accepted the full-time offer.
Cited in
- Tulio Tagliaferri, Bridging Law and Strategy, Penn Carey Law (July 17, 2025).
- Trey Popp, (Re)Introduction to US History, Penn Gazette, Sept.–Oct. 2021.
- The Annual Fund, Penn Carey Law Alumni (featuring Tulio Tagliaferri C'24, L'27 and Frances Han L'98).
- Committee: Tulio Tagliaferri, Wharton Restructuring & Distressed Investing Conference (2026).
- Penn Black Law Students Ass'n (@pennblsa), Meet Tulio Tagliaferri, Instagram (Aug. 26, 2025).
He spends his time building, but owes it all to his education his mom, his sister and his friends.
By:
/s/ Tulio Tagliaferri
Founder, builder, future associate