Category: Legal Engineering
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Legal AI Citation Verification: Lessons from the AMLR
A legal AI system can explain a rule convincingly and still identify the wrong provision. Building a dependable compliance workflow requires accurate source identification, attention to legal context, and a way to preserve both as the law changes. When I first began using large language models for legal research, I noticed a recurring problem: a…
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Beyond Vibe Coding: Software Architecture for Lawyers
AI coding agents can generate remarkable amounts of software, but code is only one layer of a trustworthy legal application. Drawing on the development of an EU AML compliance platform, this article explains why lawyers who build with AI must learn to think like software architects.
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Legal Engineering: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Why It May Become One of the Most Important Legal Professions of the AI Era
A few years ago, the phrase “legal engineer” sounded strange to many lawyers. It still does to some. Lawyers advise. Engineers build. Lawyers interpret ambiguity. Engineers try to reduce ambiguity into systems. Lawyers are trained to reason through facts, law, incentives, risk and institutional context. Engineers are trained to decompose problems, define requirements, test outputs…