What would a good answer require?
Identify the source material, the intended reader and the decisions the work will support. Turn a broad request into something that can be checked.
Education & training
Teaching lawyers to use AI with judgment.
I train colleagues, including senior barristers and partners, mentor lawyers building their first tools, and help design the LegalQuants AI Residency. I have also trained teams onsite in the Middle East. The common task is helping experienced people bring their own judgment to unfamiliar technology.
01 · Colleagues & teams
Start with the work they know.
A senior lawyer may be trying AI for the first time while knowing far more about the underlying matter than the tool ever will. That experience is where I start: what are they trying to establish, which documents matter, and what would make an answer unsafe to rely on?
My training has included colleagues, senior barristers and partners, as well as onsite sessions with teams in the Middle East. I have taught in-house legal, tax and compliance teams to build Microsoft 365 Copilot agents. Different roles need different levels of technical detail, but everyone needs a way to check the result.
I can explain both the legal task and what happens inside the system. That makes it easier to connect a familiar concern, such as an incomplete account of the evidence, to a technical cause: the wrong documents retrieved, missing context or a workflow that never asked the right question.
For someone using AI in daily practice, the aim may be a more reliable way to review or draft. For a partner supervising others, it may be knowing what questions to ask before work reaches a client. For a team building an agent, it includes specifying its job, testing it and knowing when to get engineering help.
02 · LegalQuants AI Residency
Mentoring the builder.
Cohorts 2 & 3Resident mentor
Cohort 4 · from November 2026Programme director, assisting Jamie Tso
My work with LegalQuants →I mentored residents on Cohorts 2 and 3, including an entrepreneur, an international arbitration lawyer and a white-collar specialist. Each brought a different problem and a different starting point. The work was to help them turn their knowledge of that problem into a tool they could understand and develop themselves.
The temptation on a mentoring call is to take the keyboard. I try to leave it with the resident. I explain the architecture, help break an overlarge idea into something testable, and ask them to show how they know it works. They need to be able to explain and maintain what they have built after the calls end.
I also contribute to programme design. From Cohort 4 in November 2026, I am programme director, assisting Jamie Tso, who runs the Residency. My focus is the progression from understanding a problem to specifying, building and testing a tool, and the support residents need at each stage.
The standard I want to carry across the mentoring is straightforward: residents should leave able to build, test and explain their own work. The amount a mentor can produce on their behalf is a poor measure of what they have learned.
The Residency is LegalQuants’ programme. Applications, places, fees and contracts are handled by LegalQuants, separately from my own training and consultancy.
03 · How I teach
Make the reasoning visible.
I want people to be able to explain why they trust a result and recognise when they should not. These are the questions I bring to using a tool, supervising its use and building one.
What did the system actually see?
Look at the documents and passages it used, the information it missed and what happened between the request and the answer.
What would expose a mistake?
Check against the sources and a result you already know. Try a difficult example. Decide what still needs human review before relying on it.
Work with me
What does your team need to be able to do?
That is the starting point for a workshop, onsite training or individual mentoring. We can work from the tools your organisation permits, the tasks people actually face and the level of responsibility they carry.
My work on access to justice has its own page: Pro bono & access to justice →