Principal
Beau Goodrick
Beau Goodrick is a practicing attorney who builds systems for attorneys and law firms. With a degree in mechanical engineering and a background in systems, he knows how the technology works. Having run the legal operations at Owen, Patterson & Owen, he knows what lawyers and law firms need to do to effectively represent their clients. Because he knows both, Beau can set up systems and technology so that they work for him and his staff in the ways that they work to allow them to more effectively represent clients.
Beau and OPO Law use what he has built every day. Now he is offering that same thing to you.
Lawyers are busy. A firm pays for technology so that it will help, not so its lawyers can spend their time setting it up, getting it to communicate with the other tech already in the stack, and learning everything it can do. That is where we can come in: we can set up the system to work based on your systems, build what it’s missing, and train your staff to use it. But we can also do much more, allowing you to use technology to leverage your legal knowledge to represent your clients more effectively.
Beau built the legal and technology systems at Owen, Patterson & Owen from the ground up, and the tools on our Capabilities page were custom-built for the firm’s daily use.
Background
Beau has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. As a student, he helped design and build a running water system in La Estanzuela, Honduras, with Engineers Without Borders. Beau then graduated with a JD with honors from Emory University School of Law, where he was selected to be part of the TI:GER program, in which he was grouped with MBA and PhD students from Georgia Tech and tasked with creating a start-up business based on the engineer’s technology. Following graduation, Beau was admitted in California and the District of Columbia.
Before joining OPO Law, Beau practiced patent litigation at an Am Law 100 law firm based in Washington, D.C., specializing in cases involving autonomous vehicle technology. While at that firm, he also took on pro bono cases in other areas of the law: an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for a client whose constitutional rights were violated while detained in the Los Angeles County jail system, a petition for habeas corpus for a death row inmate in Texas, and an asylum case for an immigrant from El Salvador. At OPO Law, Beau handles personal injury cases from intake through discovery, trial, and appeal.
Beau’s experience in the legal field is wide-ranging: not only is he one of the few attorneys who have made the switch from IP to PI, he also has revamped a prelitigation department, first chaired a case at trial, and both drafted and argued an appeal solo. This range of experiences has informed Beau’s practice of law and his adoption and integration of technology. Unlike the engineers building the legal technology, Beau knows how lawyers and law firms operate and what lawyers and law firms need to do so effectively.
Awards, Recognitions, and Presentations
Awards and recognitions
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
Presentations and Publications
- Moderator, Ethical Law Firm Practice panel, Consumer Attorneys of California Convention (San Francisco, November 2026)
- Moderator, AI and Technology panel, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Convention (Las Vegas, September 2026)
- “Insurance Investigation Strategies,” Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles New Lawyers Committee (webinar, April 2026)
- Moderator, “ABCs of Demand Letters,” Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles New Lawyers Committee (webinar, October 2025)
- “Utilizing AI in the Legal World,” Santa Clarita Valley Bar Association (Santa Clarita, October 2023)
- “Connecting to Success: Business Panel,” Valley Industry Association (Santa Clarita, October 2023)
- “Connecting to Success: Building Your Image,” Valley Industry Association (Santa Clarita, September 2023)
- “Networking Your Way to Trial,” San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s New Lawyer Division Travel Summit (Santa Cruz, June 2022)
- “Connecting to Success: Building Your Image,” Valley Industry Association (Santa Clarita, March 2020)
Bar admissions
- State of California
- District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
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