Read the full article at Stanford Law here: https://law.stanford.edu/publications/legal-engineering-a-paradigm-shift-in-law/

Legal and compliance (L&C) work has long been a source of friction. Cass Sunstein described the notion of “legal sludge”, a drag on organizations and individuals alike.

At Norm, we’ve been asking a simple question: what if legal expertise could scale closer to the way software does?

Enter Legal Engineering, a new discipline created by Norm Ai. It sits at the intersection of two languages: legal language and programming language. Each has its strengths – law offers flexibility and interpretive depth, while code offers scalability. But each also has limits when standing alone.

Legal Engineering was born out of the recognition that an integration of these different language types was required to push the frontier of providing abundant reliable L&C advice.

Using our Legal Engineering Automation Platform (LEAP), lawyers without software backgrounds can embed statutes, regulations, legal workflows, and firm policies directly into AI systems. These AI agents don’t just accelerate work, they explain reasoning and adapt to each organization’s unique standards through careful Legal Engineer curation. In other words, they extend the reach of what legal professionals can see and do.

The ability of LLMs to grok legal standards, taking off in 2023, set the stage for Legal Engineering, which Norm Ai pioneered in 2024. The Legal Engineering paradigm shift, playing out in 2025, is the integration of the strengths of legal code and computer code in pursuit of extending the efficient frontier of language types across the dimensions of automatability and contextual generalization.

Stanford Law school recently published our CEO’s article on Legal Engineering here: https://law.stanford.edu/publications/legal-engineering-a-paradigm-shift-in-law/