S2|E2: Building AI-Native Law Firms: Insights from Helen Fan
Future Ready Lawyer: AI and the Evolution of Legal Practice by Armin Alimardani, Mark Bennett, Alexandra Vost
Episode notes
Most lawyers using AI today are typing questions into a chatbot and reading the answer. But what if AI could act more like a team of junior colleagues working alongside you?
In this episode of the Future Ready Lawyer podcast, we're joined by Helen Fan, a California lawyer and founder of the Silicon Valley Legal Tech Frontier Community, to discuss her experiments building an AI-powered law firm.
Helen set up two AI Agents, Morgan, a senior associate, and Cleo, a junior, and gave them a real legal research task. To her surprise, they divided up the work, debated each other, and even created additional helpers on their own. We explore what this means for supervision, accountability, and trust when AI starts taking action rather than just answering questions.
Helen also shares her vision for the AI-native law firm, why smaller firms ...