May 5, 2026
Through UC Law SF’s AI-Enabled Lawyers Bootcamp, 3L Saamia Aziz went from curious about AI to building tools that could expand access to sophisticated legal analysis. 3L Saamia Aziz built DepoBaby from scratch in UC Law SF’s AI-Enabled Lawyers Bootcamp, gaining hands-on AI experience with little…
May 4, 2026
3L John Tavares spent his final semester at UC Law SF building an AI tool for people navigating the legal system without a lawyer. He enters practice already fluent in technology that many attorneys are still catching up to understand. 3L John Tavares built an AI…
April 13, 2026
John Pavolotsky, a partner at Stoel Rives LLP who specializes in technology and AI-related legal matters, and Svetlana Matt ’12, director of public policy at Dish Network, examine Colorado’s landmark AI law and what it signals for future regulation during LexLab’s Law and AI Certificate program in March.
January 21, 2026
Sixteen leaders from law and technology, many UC Law SF alumni, have joined a new advisory board on AI in legal practice and education. The board will advise on curriculum, professional skills training, and the responsible use of AI in teaching and academic operations. Their guidance positions UC Law…
November 3, 2025
Professor and Director of Applied Innovation Tal Niv, right, addresses the crowd during An Evening of Open: Science, Software, & AI. The event featured remarks from Florian Cardinaux, consul general of France in San Francisco and was co-sponsored by the consulate general and GitHub. Lexlab’s connections to international…
May 15, 2025
Building on its leadership in AI law, UC Law San Francisco will launch the inaugural Law and Artificial Intelligence Program, a five-day course for lawyers, technologists, and policymakers in July. LexLab Director Drew Amerson is among those leading efforts at UC Law SF to shape the legal…
December 4, 2023
Entrepreneurs in LexLab’s Justice Technology Accelerator Program posed with law professors and students after pitching their startups at the annual Demo Day competition on Nov. 14. Two tech startups that offer legal help to people who might be unable to afford traditional legal services took home top prizes…
June 8, 2023
LexLab, a center at UC Law San Francisco that focuses on law, technology, and innovation, is joining forces with gener8tor, Village Capital, and the Justice Technology Association for a groundbreaking accelerator program supporting justice tech startups. Launched in…
May 8, 2023
LexLab Director Drew Amerson, center, presented prize checks to contest winners Aliza Shatzman, left, president and founder of the Legal Accountability Project, and Dina Joseph and Mike Jones, right, cofounders of Aurelian, at the Demo Day event in April 2023. Having investors back consumer lawsuits, reviewing judges for…
November 9, 2022
Data privacy legal expert Lothar Determann (left) moderated a panel of data privacy professionals – Jeewon Kim Serrato, Mariam Abdel-Malek, Barbara Lawler, and Leila Golchehreh (left to right) – at a Privacy Day event co-hosted by LexLab at UC Law SF on Sept. 29. As a center focused…
July 18, 2022
UC Law SF law students Sasha Madani J.D. ’23, Rebecca Siegel, J.D. ’22, and Christoph Keese LL.M. ’22, pitched tech startup ideas to a panel of experts at LexLab’s DemoDay competition in April 2022. For the last five years, the UC Law SF LexLab has hosted a shark-tank…
January 20, 2022
LexLab at UC Law SF, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups. Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five…