Maurits Fornier
Co-founder
Maurits founded Patroon after years in litigation practice at Freshfields and De Roos. He loves the moment complex cases click: finding the structure that makes facts land.
What he loved about complex cases: the moment it clicks. Taking a pile of facts and finding the structure that makes it land. Grouping, connecting, telling a story with data. That’s still the work, now with better tools.
He taught himself to code along the way. Now he leads Patroon’s strategy and works across legal, design, and engineering. Building litigation visuals for high-stakes arbitrations, AI applications for compliance teams, and interactive dashboards used by government and corporate legal departments.
Still gets into the details. Writes code, reviews designs, obsesses over the right word. Draws inspiration from NYT infographics, Kurzgesagt, Johnny Harris, and Arjen Lubach. Always building, always curious.
Beyond Patroon, Maurits founded Mino, a platform for legal professionals working with AI. The Mino platform features tools like Feitlijn and Thea, both built by the Patroon team to help lawyers integrate AI into their practice.