Latest news with #LegalAI
Associated Press
08-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
From Product to Practice: What Lawyers Really Want From AI, According to MiAI Law CEO Laina Chan
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, July 8, 2025 / / -- MiAI Law is reshaping Legal AI Research by addressing what legal professionals truly need: trust, traceability, and legal reasoning—built from the ground up by a practicing barrister. In the latest interview from Xraised, 'From Product to Practice: What Lawyers Really Want From AI', award-winning barrister and MiAI Law CEO Laina Chan breaks down the gap between traditional legaltech tools and the real-world demands of lawyers. Rather than hype, Chan brings a grounded, legal-first approach to AI—offering a clear vision of how Legal AI Research should serve the legal profession. MiAI Law: The AI Built by a Barrister, Not Just Engineers Founded by Laina Chan, a practicing construction law barrister with over two decades at the bar, MiAI Law was developed with one question in mind: What do lawyers actually need from AI? 'It's not just about getting quick answers,' Chan says. 'Lawyers need responses they can trust—rooted in legal principles, backed by citations, and structured to match the way we think.' With a legal architecture designed by Chan herself, MiAI Law delivers fast, accurate, footnoted answers sourced from primary case law and legislation—removing the guesswork that plagues generic AI tools. Chan did not build MiAI Law to impress VCs. She built it because she was sick of legal tech that couldn't reason—and wasting hours doing case law the hard way. Most tools were fast but shallow, smart-sounding but legally useless. MiAI Law is different: it thinks like a lawyer because it was built by one, with legal reasoning, traceability, and primary sources at its core—not shortcuts. Real Legal AI Research, Not Just Flashy Tech Many AI tools fail lawyers by focusing on form over function. They sound smart but miss legal nuance. MiAI Law changes that. The platform reasons from first principles, traverses full legal databases, and ties every conclusion to a verifiable source. 'Generic models hallucinate. MiAI Law doesn't,' Chan explains. 'It's been trained to think like a barrister, not a chatbot.' In benchmark testing, MiAI Law answered 30 high-level legal questions in under two hours—research that previously took weeks of manual work. It's not about replacing lawyers. It's about giving them a competitive edge. What Lawyers Really Want From AI: Speed With Substance Chan highlights a key misconception: that lawyers simply want faster tools. In reality, MiAI Law focuses on transparency, accuracy, and efficiency—turning AI into a legal research partner, not a risk factor. Every MiAI Law report includes footnotes and direct hyperlinks to relevant cases or statutes, allowing lawyers to verify and explore results with full context. Whether they're in a mediation, drafting pleadings, or validating strategy, users know exactly where the information comes from. AI Is Not the Threat—It's the Ally Chan addresses the lingering fear that AI could replace legal professionals: 'AI won't take your job. But someone using AI effectively might,' she notes. 'I built MiAI Law to help myself—not replace myself.' Rather than automating legal judgment, MiAI Law frees up time so lawyers can focus on what truly matters: strategy, advocacy, and outcomes. It gives them the capacity to be sharper, faster, and better informed—without compromising ethics or quality. See the Interview, Explore the Future Watch the full conversation with Laina Chan and learn how MiAI Law is building the next generation of Legal AI Research: From Product to Practice: What Lawyers Really Want From AI. Learn more about MiAI Law's products and legal-first design: 🔗 Media Contact: Ethan Hunt [email protected] Gianmarco Giordaniello Xraised email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Instagram X Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Technical.ly
26-02-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
Immigration-focused AI chatbot wins $2,500 from Temple University to go from idea to action
A Philly student with a plan for an AI chatbot that answers questions about the legal process of immigration is getting a funding boost from Temple University. Students, alumni and staff presented solutions to challenges like immigration, education and generational loneliness at the eighth annual Changemaker Challenge last week. The Fox School of Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute hosts the pitch competition to get people thinking about social impact ideas and ventures. The goal is to show that anyone can come up with innovations and pursue entrepreneurship, Neil Johnston, director of accelerator programs, told 'When people see pitch competition or business plan competition, they think they have to be a business school student or have this fully fleshed out idea,' he said. 'But this really is to show what are some innovative and entrepreneurial ways to think about solving social issues.' This year's grand prize winner was Victor Diaz, a student in the College of Engineering, for his idea LegalAI. After winning first prize in the upper track in addition to the grand prize, he walked away with $2,500 to put towards developing his idea. LegalAI, while not in the works yet, could become a simpler way to get answers to complex legal queries about immigration, he said. The tool would also allow users to track their immigration process and foster community among users. The idea was inspired by his own family's experience navigating legal immigration processes, he said. 'My aunt, she had a question about this process. But if you have a question, it's very expensive to go to a lawyer,' he said. 'So I asked ChatGPT.' Prize winners get thousands to turn ideas into reality The competition asks for submissions from students, alumni, faculty and staff across all schools and disciplines and narrows them down to eight finalists, who go on to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. The finalists tend to be submissions with more fleshed-out ideas, Johnston said. Most participants have done extensive research about their idea and learned about where the gaps in the market are and who the competition is, for example. 'They may not have a five or 10-year business plan,' Johnston said. 'But they are able to share their passion and their expertise in this area that they've done some research on.' Diaz had been thinking about his idea for a few months before fine-tuning it for the pitch competition, he said. He plans to continue working on his idea, with some changes based on the judges' feedback. For example, one judge suggested making his own GPT and testing out the knowledge base required for a tool like this. While Diaz won the grand prize after topping the upper track for grad students, alumni and staff, there are other winners, too. The competition also gives out other awards on an undergrad track. Each track has a first place prize, $1,000, and a second place prize, $500. There is also a people's choice award and global innovation award, each winner receives $500. The other winners included: Rashmi Thapa won first place undergraduate track for her idea EmpowerED, a personalized education consulting platform for international students. Causha Spellman-Timmons won second place on the upper track and the Global Innovation Award for SENIOR!. The idea would bring sex education programming to seniors. Vozzy World, an AI-based online game that offers educational programming developed by Raphael Cohen-Shippee, won second place on the undergraduate track. The People's Choice Award went to Robert Spero for his idea Cafe Spero, a workshop cafe with programming to address loneliness amongst elderly people. Social entrepreneurship for all — not just the business majors The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute spent time spreading the word about the competition outside of the business school, enlisting a steering committee of staff from across the university to encourage people to apply, Johnston said. The challenge fits into the university's wider mission to encourage social impact programming but also shows that anyone can contribute to innovation and entrepreneurship, not just people in the business realm, Johnston said. The overall goal is to show that social entrepreneurship can look a lot of different ways. It can be a full-time business, a side project or a nonprofit too, he said. 'The core tenets of innovation and entrepreneurship, ' Johnston said, 'can really do social good in the world.' Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
