Ep 032: Kimball Parker, Head of Wilson Sonsini’s New Tech Subsidiary SixFifty

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In February, Silicon Valley law firm</span> <a href="https://www.wsgr.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Wilson Sonsini</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">announced the launch of</span> <a href= "https://www.sixfifty.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SixFifty</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a software subsidiary that will develop automated tools designed to make legal processes more efficient and affordable for individuals, small businesses and emerging companies. Named president of SixFifty was</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimball-dean-parker-61492745"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Kimball Dean Parker</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the lawyer who helped develop the innovative LawX design lab at BYU Law School.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi visits Parker in SixFifty’s Lehi, Utah, office, where they discuss Wilson Sonsini’s reasons for creating a software subsidiary and for locating it in Utah, the privacy tool SixFifty is developing for businesses to comply with California’s Consumer Privacy Act, and other products on SixFifty’s roadmap, including several to enhance access to justice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parker also talks about the LawX Lab and its work to develop</span> <a href= "https://www.solosuit.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SoloSuit</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, an online tool to help debtors respond to collection lawsuits; Parsons Behle Lab, the subsidiary he started for his former law firm, and its GDPR compliance tool; and his first start-up CO/COUNSEL, a legal education and crowdsourcing site.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2013 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Parker began his legal career as an associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in San Francisco. He returned to his home state of Utah in 2016, where he was with the law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer u