Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab)

Stanford liftlab is an interdisciplinary research lab studying how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal services.

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Key Pillars

Our work is organized around four Key Pillars with the underlying goal to empirically evaluate and promote the quality of legal services in the private sector. We anticipate a multi-prong research effort across verticals of legal analysis, tech development, and stakeholder collaboration.

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Evaluation

We develop rigorous methods to assess the quality of legal work and to understand how artificial intelligence is changing legal practice.
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AI to Elevate Legal Services

We study how artificial intelligence can improve the delivery of legal services, from the quality of legal advice to the design of new service models.
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The Future of Legal Education and Training

We rethink how lawyers develop expertise, exercise judgment, and learn through practice in an age of artificial intelligence.
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Advanced Methods for Legal Analysis

We develop new methods for legal reasoning, analysis, and decision-making in practice.

Leadership

Julian Nyarko

Julian Nyarko

  • Professor of Law
  • Co-Chair Stanford Law AI Initiative
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)

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The Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, or liftlab, explores how artificial intelligence can reshape legal services—not just to make them faster and cheaper, but better and more widely accessible.

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News

AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work?

CBS News

The evolution is happening across the country. Columbus, Ohio, law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, for instance, worked with Stanford University's Liftlab to build AI personas trained on the experience and philosophy of some of its senior lawyers. These AI personas can offer feedback from the unique perspective of…