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Welcome to Women in legal AI
The Hub for Women Builders & Leaders of Legal AI Initiatives & Practices
Women are often left out of important conversations about legal AI.
We're here to change that.
We are the first resource to focus on sharing news and examples of the groundbreaking and innovative accomplishments of the many women leading legal AI. We also hope to create a community for all to connect with, promote, empower, and support these women leaders - from investors to founders to C-suite executives to lawyers in law departments, law firms, media, government, academia, and beyond.
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Natalie Aresta-Katz built Regbase, turning a painstaking Big Law research problem into a global regulatory-tracking platform
Poets & Quants has featured Natalie Aresta-Katz and her new AI-based regulatory platform. Previously an ESG regulatory researcher at Paul Weiss and a recent Columbia Business School MBA grad, Natalie is co-founder of Regbase, an AI-native legal research platform that helps companies, law firms, researchers, and government vendors track new and proposed laws across countries, languages, and jurisdictions. Those include regulations buried on obscure government websites, consult
Natalie Aresta-Katz built Regbase, turning a painstaking Big Law research problem into a global regulatory-tracking platform
Poets & Quants has featured Natalie Aresta-Katz and her new AI-based regulatory platform. Previously an ESG regulatory researcher at Paul Weiss and a recent Columbia Business School MBA grad, Natalie is co-founder of Regbase, an AI-native legal research platform that helps companies, law firms, researchers, and government vendors track new and proposed laws across countries, languages, and jurisdictions. Those include regulations buried on obscure government websites, consult
Aug 12
Morgan Lewis’s AI Studio stands out as a structured internal operating model
Morgan Lewis describes AI Studio as the mechanism coordinating AI strategy and initiatives across the firm, including GenAI Foundations, which it calls one of the most ambitious AI literacy programs in the legal industry. The firm also highlights eData Virtual Assistant as a self-service AI chatbot for lawyers to access information, compare documents, and generate charts and reports through chat. Those offerings suggest a mix of internal productivity tools and broader operati
Jul 19
Closing the Adoption Gap: How AI Is Being Built in the Global South
The AI conversation is dominated by a preoccupation with frontier capabilities. Yet a more consequential challenge is the gap between what AI can do and what it is actually doing in the world. This adoption gap is particularly acute in the Global South, where AI is deployed amid resource constraints, limited state capacity, and fragile institutions. This report sets out to map these adoption challenges, in order to understand how AI can be better embedded into existing workfl
Jul 9
Ngozi Nwabueze, founder of PocketLawyers, featured in TechNext24's Women in Tech
Known affectionately as the "Mother-in-LAW of businesses," Ngozi Nwabueze founded PocketLawyers, a service to help lawyers bring AI to their practices and firms, or as she sometimes refers to it: "Shopify for Lawyers." The platform currently supports over 250 lawyers across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. It allows lawyers to create profile pages detailing their services, pricing, location, and client reviews, crucially enabling potential clients to find, vet, and hire
Jul 6
New study from Chief and Harris Poll: Senior women leaders are driving their companies’ AI strategies
Published in the National Law Review, Chief shares results of their polling on how female executives in the legal space are challenging firms to look beyond just the speed of AI adoption. It details how women leaders are proactively assessing the impacts of AI on hiring, institutional knowledge, and the critical thinking skills gap. Read Chief's Women AI Leaders 2026 Study.
Jun 30
She left Big Law to become an investor, but building her own AI firm proved more lucrative.
Kristina Subbotina left BigLaw (Cooley), broke stigmas, and went viral, as the founder and CEO of Lexsy, an AI-powered law firm for startups. Read how Kristina found success, doing it her way. https://www.businessinsider.com/big-law-cooley-ai-agents-legal-platform-2026-6
Jun 1
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