Colin Levy praises VAILL's AI-driven approach to expanding access to legal services

🥈 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀: Stanford Law School licenses LexText AI for students, faculty, and staff. We’re excited to share that a Legal Innovators sponsors LexText AI has been licensed by Stanford Law School, the top law school in the U.S., located in the heart of Silicon Valley, for its students, faculty, and staff. LexText’s platform is designed specifically for litigation, helping lawyers and law students draft, test, and refine legal arguments while staying grounded in primary legal sources and structured reasoning. As AI becomes more embedded in legal workflows, tools like this are helping shape how the next generation of lawyers learns, thinks, and advocates. The platform was founded by Jobe Danganan, CEO and Co-Founder of LexText, who many in our community will remember from Legal Innovators New York last year, where he shared insights on how AI can strengthen legal reasoning rather than replace it. As Jobe puts it: “The lawyers who thrive in an AI-driven world won’t be the ones who outsource their thinking. They’ll be the ones who use AI to think harder and advocate more precisely.” With Stanford embracing tools like LexText, it’s another clear signal that AI is becoming part of the foundation of modern legal education and practice. 🔗 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gQxnJaBA Credit: LexText 🚀 Want to meet the LexText team and hear more about their vision for AI-powered litigation? Join us at Legal Innovators New York, where the legal industry’s most forward-thinking leaders gather to discuss how technology is reshaping the future of legal services. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gY7_r8nP #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #LegalAI #FutureOfLaw #LegalInnovators #LegalEducation #LegalTechnology

🥈 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀: Stanford Law School licenses LexText AI for students, faculty, and staff. We’re excited to share that a Legal Innovators sponsors LexText AI has been licensed by Stanford Law School, the top law school in the U.S., located in the heart of Silicon Valley, for its students, faculty, and staff. LexText’s platform is designed specifically for litigation, helping lawyers and law students draft, test, and refine legal arguments while staying grounded in primary legal sources and structured reasoning. As AI becomes more embedded in legal workflows, tools like this are helping shape how the next generation of lawyers learns, thinks, and advocates. The platform was founded by Jobe Danganan, CEO and Co-Founder of LexText, who many in our community will remember from Legal Innovators New York last year, where he shared insights on how AI can strengthen legal reasoning rather than replace it. As Jobe puts it: “The lawyers who thrive in an AI-driven world won’t be the ones who outsource their thinking. They’ll be the ones who use AI to think harder and advocate more precisely.” With Stanford embracing tools like LexText, it’s another clear signal that AI is becoming part of the foundation of modern legal education and practice. 🔗 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gQxnJaBA Credit: LexText 🚀 Want to meet the LexText team in action? Join us at Legal Innovators California, where founders, in-house leaders, and legal innovators come together in the heart of Silicon Valley to explore how AI is transforming legal practice. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear directly from the companies shaping the next generation of legal AI. Register here: https://lnkd.in/g_Hwzry #LegalTech #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #LegalAI #FutureOfLaw #LegalInnovators #LegalEducation #LegalTechnology

We’re proud to share that Lydia Flocchini, USF Law Class of '98 and advisor to the Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good, will be speaking at Legalweek 2026 in New York. 📅 Monday, March 9, 2026 🕦 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EST AI Workshop — The Human Edge: Leading and Thriving in the AI-Transformed Legal Workplace Lydia has forged a distinguished career in legal technology, advising lawyer-founders building AI-native legal companies and helping law firms, legal departments, and government agencies adopt transformative technologies. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and responsible AI adoption — directly aligned with the mission of the CLTSG, where we serve as a training ground for the next generation of lawyers, lawmakers, and policy enforcers to think about technology, society, and law in a balanced and forward-looking way. As part of the University of San Francisco School of Law, the first law school in the country to embed generative AI into its curriculum, we are committed to shaping the future of legal education and practice. The extraordinary panel: • Jeff Reihl, Technology Chairperson – LexisNexis Legal & Professional • Mark Wasserman, Partner & CEO Emeritus – Eversheds Sutherland • Jennifer Leonard, Founder – Creative Lawyers | Penn Carey Law • Seth Gastwirth, Deputy GC – JLL If you’re attending Legalweek, we invite you to join the session and be part of the conversation about how legal leaders can thrive in an AI-transformed world. Thank you to the team at Legalweek and session sponsor LexisNexis for the fantastic opportunity to share what we are learning. #Legalweek26 #legalai #legaltech #lawschool #legaleducation

🚨 Legora has partnered with leading US law schools including Stanford and Cornell to roll out its AI platform to students and faculty. The programme is designed to integrate AI into legal education, with students trained on tasks such as drafting, legal analysis and document review using the platform. Legora said the aim is to help graduates become “practice-ready” and reduce the training burden on law firms. More here: https://lnkd.in/eBtbyXKa

California's new proposal urging law schools to teach AI law signals a major shift in legal education — and future lawyers need to pay attention. As AI becomes embedded in litigation, compliance, contracts, and regulatory frameworks, law schools may soon be expected to prepare students for emerging challenges in: • AI governance • Data privacy • Algorithmic accountability • Tech‑driven legal practice Our latest article explores what this development means for law schools, applicants, and the future of the profession — and how students can stay ahead of the curve. https://lnkd.in/ehauaCQc #AIinLaw #FutureLawyers #LawSchoolAdmissions #LegalTech

Very interesting Leimberg Information Services Inc. (LISI) newsletter today by Jay Adkisson (Estate Planning Newsletter #3281 (March 12, 2026)) on whether AI should replace law schools. Not sure I have an opinion on that specific issue though Jay makes some great points in his article. I'm sure I'm unqualified to opine on this myself, but can say I've spent a career progressively as a grinder, a minder, a finder, and now out of law practice - a consumer of legal services. I know this: if I were a law student today I'd want to come out of law school with: 🧠The classic law school education - learning how to learn "the law" 🪛Practical knowledge - allowing me to jump into a legal practice and add value immediately 💾Tech skills - in the same way that my vintage of law school grads were Westlaw/Lexis super researchers, I'd want to be an AI native with a firm pulse on the advancements happening in the industry #LawSchool #Lawyers #LegalPractice #AI #GratuitousHotTake

Warms my heart to learn that Legora is rolling out a program for US law schools, what Legora calls its "Legal AI Scholars Program." Here's an excerpt from a post about this roll-out from Legaltech News (LTS): "Swedish legal technology startup Legora announced Wednesday the launch of its Legal AI Scholars Program in collaboration with law schools across the U.S. "Legora will work with law school leadership to provide free, specialized training and deploy its platform among students and faculty, as well as work with law schools to develop curriculum focused on artificial intelligence. "The program's introduction comes at a time when law schools are trying to offer their students more AI-related training. According to Legora CEO and co-founder Max Junestrand, there has been ample demand among legal educators for such an initiative." I'm delighted to learn from LTN's post (linked below) that Legora's seeing "ample demand for its program.   https://lnkd.in/dn2y6jrw #legaltechnology #legaltech Legora

Nine law schools, including Stanford, Northwestern, Cornell, and Chicago, just committed to training students on professional-grade legal AI before they ever set foot in a firm. Legora is putting its enterprise platform directly into law school curricula. The same tool BigLaw uses. Not a watered-down student edition. Not a sandbox. The actual thing, with faculty training and ethics built into the coursework. This matters for hiring partners more than it does for students right now. The cost of onboarding a first-year associate who has never used AI for document review or legal analysis is going up. The cost of onboarding one who already has that muscle memory is going down. That gap is going to widen fast as more schools join. For students it's a credential that isn't on their transcript but will show up in how quickly they contribute. Drafting, synthesis, large-scale review. The firms interviewing at these schools next cycle will be meeting candidates who already have reps on the tools they're paying for. The dean quotes are mostly what you'd expect, but the UT one is blunt in the right way. "Our graduates need to be skilled with the premier AI tools for legal practice." Not "exposed to." Skilled. That framing is doing real work.

A few legal AI headlines worth paying attention to today. Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation today. The company is three years old, built by two University of Southern California alumni — one a lawyer, one a research scientist — and now has 100,000 lawyers on the platform and $190M in ARR. Sovereign wealth and tier-one venture don't move at that pace without a strong view on where associate-level work is heading. Legora announced partnerships with nine US law schools today — Stanford Law School, Cornell Law School, and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law law among them — to embed their platform directly into legal curricula. The stated goal is graduates arriving at firms "practice-ready." That's a polite way of saying the training burden firms currently absorb through junior associate hours is being re-engineered upstream. And then there's the broader trend quietly gathering momentum: AI-native law firms are starting to attract serious institutional attention. A former seven-year Sidley executive committee chair recently joined a two-month-old AI-native platform, Norm Law, backed by Bain, Blackstone, and Vanguard. When lawyers at that level start making that kind of move, it's worth paying attention. AI integration in legal practice continues to mature — moving beyond operational tooling and into the structural design of legal institutions themselves.

Read On The Cusp's latest article: "Michael Scott Is Not A Juror: The Limits Of AI In Simulating Human Judgment" by Sean Harrington & Hayley Stillwell. 🔗https://lnkd.in/eTxEBjMC About the Authors: Sean Harrington is the Director of the AI and Legal Tech Studio at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he leads applied research, teaching, and development at the intersection of law and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on translating rapidly evolving advances in AI into practical systems, tools, and workflows that lawyers and legal institutions can use responsibly. Through the studio, he oversees projects that combine legal training with hands-on technology development, helping law students learn to evaluate, supervise, and deploy AI systems in professional practice. Harrington is a 2025 vLex Fastcase 50 Awardee and a member of the OpenAI Education Forum, and he was recently featured by OpenAI for his work integrating AI into legal education. He regularly speaks across the United States on topics including generative AI, prompt engineering, and the future of legal work, presenting at conferences such as ABA TECHSHOW, Legalweek, and events hosted by bar associations, courts, and government agencies. Harrington holds a J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a Master of Science in Data Analytics from Arizona State University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona. Hayley Stillwell is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she teaches Evidence, Evidence Lab, Criminal Law, and Remedies. Her scholarship examines how courts evaluate what a “reasonable juror” would think and explores the limits of artificial intelligence in simulating human reasoning. Her recent work combines empirical juror data with AI-generated jury simulations to test whether large language models can accurately predict how jurors interpret criminal evidence, with implications for evidentiary doctrine, trial strategy, and the growing use of AI-driven jury analytics. Professor Stillwell earned a B.A. summa cum laude and a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma, where she finished first in her law school class and was inducted into the Orders of the Coif, Barristers, and Scribes. After graduation, she clerked for both federal and state judges at all levels and practiced as a litigation associate at leading law firms in Oklahoma City and Houston.