Rhetoric

Company

CICERO founders in conversation

A Note from Our Founders

We believe cutting-edge tech should empower genuine skill-building, preparedness, and performance, not replace it. That's why we created CICERO.

We hope you'll join the thousands of others using CICERO to prepare for courtroom arguments, classroom presentations, interviews, and more.

Prepare to perform and go forward with confidence.

— Luke, Daniel & Warren

Leadership Team

Meet the founders

Luke Yingling

Luke Yingling

Chief Executive Officer

A published researcher and writer, Luke founded Rhetoric in 2021 while a 2L in law school. He holds a law and master's degree, and his works on law, policy, and the courts have been published in peer-reviewed and popular outlets. As a former collegiate baseball player, Luke's love of sports stats carried over to his professional life in the form of litigation stats. As a pitcher, Luke says he led his conference in grade point average per innings pitched (a fictitious stat of his own invention which is meant to distract people from how bad his actual pitching stats were). A West Virginian native, Luke is proud to have founded Rhetoric in his hometown of Ona, West Virginia.

Warren Patterson

Warren Patterson

Chief Technology Officer

An experienced engineer who survived Y2K, Warren is a Rhetoric co-founder and the company's Chief Technology Officer. In previous roles he held various titles including Senior Engineer, Software Architect, and Chief Information Officer at institutions ranging from publicly traded corporations to state government. Warren's expertise set the foundation for Rhetoric's success. Outside of the office, Warren is an avid runner and bee keeping hobbyist.

Daniel Scarr

Daniel Scarr

Chief Product Officer

Prior to co-founding Rhetoric, Daniel served as a Senior Product Development Specialist, developing technology for the Department of Defense. His early career path found him creating innovative tech products across the healthcare, fintech, and cyber-defense industries. Despite being the only non-lawyer in his family, Daniel says he is pleased to have found a career where he can combine his life-long love of technology with the "family business." Daniel is a car and electric vehicle enthusiast, but don't bring it up to him unless you have at least 30 minutes to spare.