Shaping the Legal Landscape through AI
We’re a lab built on curiosity, asking how humans and technology can work together to expand access to high-quality legal services.
Welcome to liftlab, Stanford Law School’s Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab. We’re a cross-disciplinary team of thinkers and builders, people who speak both law and tech, designing experiments that ask transformative questions. How can AI help us understand, teach, and deliver the practice of law better? Through hands-on research, prototypes, and simulation tools, we’re imagining what tomorrow’s collaboration looks like among people, technology, and legal practice.
liftlab Team
Experimenting at the edge of Law and AI
liftlab exists to both embrace and challenge the very DNA of the legal profession. How does the profession grow and adapt as technology reshapes the world around it — while still staying true to its core? We use empirical study and prototype development to study how emerging technologies can improve education and strengthen the standards that define legal practice. In doing so, we’re helping bridge the space between legal theory and the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. At liftlab, our aim is to build a profession where human insight and machine intelligence come together to support better judgment and justice.
Our Work in Motion
Prototyping the Future of Legal Practice
Our projects aim to lift the practice of law itself. We imagine a future where humans and technology work together to bring greater access, clarity, and fairness to the field.
Developing Legal Personas
Turning the expertise of senior partners into interactive AI personas that capture the reasoning behind real-world legal strategy.
Contractual Drafting Risk Assessment
Tools built to help legal personnel draft better contracts and reduce the likelihood of a costly dispute.
AI-Driven Simulation Training
Immersive AI simulations that let law students and new attorneys practice real-world skills and turn learning into experience.
Our Why
We See Technology as a Force for Collective Growth
When people ask why liftlab, a timeless saying comes to mind: A rising tide lifts all boats. That’s our guiding principle. And that’s how we see progress. From lawyers to students to educators, we believe technology should be used to uplift everyone it touches. We’re not just studying the future of law. We’re building it responsibly, collaboratively, and with purpose. Our work here at liftlab is about designing tools that help make the legal world stronger, not smaller.
