Megan Ma and Julian Nyarko are leveraging AI to increase access to high-quality legal services.

“AI has unprecedented potential to transform legal services. Significant activity is underway across the sector, but we need a clear-eyed reality check on what truly works,” said Nyarko. “Our lab is committed to separating hype from reality, enabling the effective development of AI for legal services so that its benefits can be realized broadly.”

“Legal AI should be centered on building human talent – cultivating judgment and domain literacy in attorneys – so that technology apprentices to the profession rather than the profession apprenticing to the tool,” said Ma. “Quality in legal work has never been measured by efficiency and accuracy alone. It has been defined by advocacy, transparent reasoning, client-centered judgment, and accountability.”