AI Lawyer Lab: Enable lawyers to turn legal expertise into AI solutions

Let me share with you why I founded AI Lawyer Lab. I have been a lawyer for twenty years. My background includes being a partner at several global law firms, general counsel at a private equity firm and a unicorn tech company, as well as a former LegalTech entrepreneur. I earned my JD degree from Yale Law School in 2004. Throughout my legal career, I have devoted myself to improving the efficiency of legal services, first through lean methodology and later through automation technology. This was because I felt that our industry, despite being a pure information sector, was so inefficient that almost everything had to be done manually by lawyers. To my frustration, our efforts did not move the efficiency needle by as much as we hoped. It became clear to me that the root cause of the legal sector's inefficiency is traditional technology's inability to process unstructured text, i.e., words, which happens to be both the input and output of all legal work. Then came generative AI, which finally solved this root cause of inefficiency. After much experimentation and based on prior experience dealing with legal expertise, I found the key ingredient to make AI work like a lawyer – expertise engineering. I have successfully engineered my legal expertise into several AI solutions that can draft investment agreements based on a term sheet, review and revise NDAs according to a playbook, and review residential leases for consumers at low cost. I achieved more efficiency gains in 2023 than in the previous 18 years combined. This experience convinced me that the AI revolution in the legal sector will be a bottom-up process, characterized by many micro-innovations from lawyers like you and me. I realized that if I could create AI solutions through expertise engineering, so can others. This led to my decision to found AI Lawyer Lab as an AI learning platform to help legal professionals prepare for the AI future of the legal industry. We offer tools and resources to enable legal professionals to learn AI by applying AI and develop expertise engineering skills so that they can transform their legal expertise into AI solutions. At AI Lawyer Lab, every legal professional can also be an innovator, and every legal task is an opportunity for developing AI solutions. Together, we can learn to harness the revolutionary power of AI, ensuring that future generations of lawyers are no longer bound to manual labor and that quality legal services become affordable for millions. Please join us!