Legal Tech Frontier

The Frontier Community for AI Transformation in Law

Founded in Silicon Valley since 2025

A practitioner-driven legal AI community connecting 1,000+ professionals across the US and Asia — where lawyers and builders meet to shape an AI-native legal profession.

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1,000+Members

13In-person events

7Cities

Legal Tech Frontier roundtable co-hosted with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and SKILLS.law in Palo Alto — Co-hosted with Pillsbury & SKILLS.law · Palo Alto

Community record / 2025—2026

Who we are · Practitioner-led

Founded in Silicon Valley

Built by the people shaping the future of legal work.

Legal Tech Frontier is a practitioner-driven community for the people building the future of legal work. Founded in Silicon Valley, we connect 1,000+ attorneys, in-house counsel, legal ops professionals, and legal tech builders across the US and Asia.

Since 2025, we've hosted 13 in-person gatherings — from Stanford and Facebook House to New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Tokyo — where practitioners share what's actually working with AI in legal practice. No hype, no vendor pitches — just honest conversations between the people doing the work.

Silicon Valley37.4° N · 122.1° W New York40.7° N · 74.0° W Beijing39.9° N · 116.4° E Shanghai31.2° N · 121.5° E Shenzhen22.5° N · 114.1° E Hong Kong22.3° N · 114.2° E Tokyo35.7° N · 139.7° E

What we do · Four formats

Community practice

Read. Meet. Build.

01Roundtables

Frontier Legal Leaders

Closed-door virtual roundtables hosted by AI leaders in law, held under the Chatham House Rule for candid peer exchange.

02Meetups

Legal AI Meetups

Regular in-person gatherings across the US and Asia where lawyers, legal ops leaders, and builders share what's actually working with AI.

03Online

LTF Online

Public live sessions on frontier technology, with builders and practitioners demoing the tools and ideas shaping legal AI. Open to everyone.

04Review

AI Transformation Review

Curated industry updates with practitioner takeaways.

Event archive · US / Asia

Field notes

Conversations across continents.

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Frontier Table

Closed-door, invite-only roundtables for firm and legal-department leaders.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Palo Alto, CA

How to Build Your Data Layer for AI Transformation

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HSF Kramer, Hong Kong

GC X AI Adoption

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Beijing meetup at Han Kun Law Offices group photo

Han Kun Law Offices, Beijing

How Legal Professionals Can Navigate Opportunities and Change in the AI Era

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AI-Native Sessions

Deep dives on what an AI-native legal practice actually looks like.

Cooley LLP, New York

What Is an AI-Native Legal Team?

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Stanford Campus, Palo Alto, CA

What Is an AI-Native Law Firm?

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Peking University, Shenzhen, China

How to Become an AI-Native In-House Counsel

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Legal AI Meetups

Our early community gatherings across the US and Asia.

Tokyo, Japan

Way to AGI 2026 Tokyo Summit

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Tokyo, Japan

OpenClaw x Legal Professionals

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Facebook House, Los Altos, CA

What Makes Lawyers Actually Use AI?

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Shanghai meetup group photo with Lujiazui skyline

White Magnolia Plaza, Shanghai

Where Should Young Legal Professionals Go in the Age of AI?

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Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Litigation X AI

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San Jose, CA

IP Law X AI

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Santa Clara, CA

Legal AI Meetup

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Research collaboration · Open benchmark

Legal Tech Frontier × UC Berkeley RDI

Agents’ Last Exam for Legal.

Legal Tech Frontier is collaborating with the Agents’ Last Exam team at the Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) at the University of California, Berkeley on an independent, open-source benchmark for legal agents — built by experienced lawyers on real cases.

01 · RDI Page

Agents’ Last Exam at Berkeley RDI

The project announcement from the Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence.

rdi.berkeley.edu ↗ 02 · ALE Page

The benchmark itself

55 occupations and 1,500+ tasks, each sourced from a real project a working professional actually completed.

agents-last-exam.org ↗ 03 · Latest notification

Building the Next-Gen Legal AI Benchmark

What we are doing, who has joined, and the open call for an Engineering / Research Lead.

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Event partners & co-hosts

Hosted together

Event Partners & Co-hosts

Universities, law firms, and communities that have hosted, sponsored, or supported our meetups across the US and Asia.

Stanford University

University of California, Berkeley

Peking University

Cooley LLP

Pillsbury

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Han Kun Law Offices

Facebook House

Asian American Bar Association of New York

skills.law

WaytoAGI

Linkloud

Listed in no particular order. Logos and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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Contact · Legal Tech Frontier

Across the US and Asia

Contact.

Reach out to the people building and growing the Legal Tech Frontier community.

Helen Fan

Founder

Helen Fan is a Silicon Valley–based lawyer and legal AI strategist trained at Columbia Law School.

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Koki Xu

APAC Lead

Lawyer-turned-builder and creator of the open-source anti-distill project, featured in MIT Technology Review. Drives Legal Tech Frontier's growth across the Asia-Pacific region.

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