Publications
National Law Review, in partnership with Wickard, selected Mark Williams as one of the top 50 legal innovators in academia for 2026. Selected through an independent selection committee process, the honorees reflect a broad range of contributions to the continued evolution of legal education, from curricular and institutional innovation to scholarship, technology, and new models of professional training.
Mark Williams and Cat Moon authored this piece in Bloomberg Law on the difference between lawyers in the loop and lawyers in control, and how we can define the practice of law in the era of AI.
The Thomson Reuters Institute and the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) have released AI Guide for Legal Professionals: A Foundational Overview, a resource for lawyers and legal professionals who want to approach AI with clarity, confidence, and professional rigor. Cat Moon contributed.
Mark Williams is featured in "Big Law Ramps Up AI Training to Combat Breach Threats, Misuses" published in Bloomberg Law.
Forthcoming in the Colorado Environmental Law Journal, Mark Williams and co-authors argue that the companies, data centers, and utilities running AI share real incentives to manage its energy and environmental costs, lay out concrete private governance tools they can use now, even in a deregulatory era.
Vals AI published its first study of how several legal tech companies responded to a series of tests set for them by major law firms. The evaluation looked at various legal AI providers on the market and evaluated key metrics in performance (Harvey, CoCounsel, LexisNexis).
VAILL team members, Mark, Kyle, and Emily, participated.
Vals AI published its second study of how several legal tech companies responded to a series of tests set for them by major law firms. The evaluation looked at new legal research AI tools, like Midpage, Alexi, and Counsel Stack.
VAILL team members, Kyle, and Emily, participated.
In the fall issue of the International Legal Technology Association’s Peer to Peer, Kyle Turner shares his approach to ensuring our students are not only prepared to join an AI-driven legal profession but also ready to shape it responsibly and ethically.
In a new series of reflections over on the ILTA blog, team member Kyle Turner shares how automation of routine tasks is already transforming efficiency and profitability in practice.
Ben Winters and Ethan Weiland of the Consumer Federation of America analyzed data from our legislative tracker to find out what's actually going on with state-level AI regulation.
Read the article: https://consumerfed.org/debunking-the-deregulators-fact-checking-the-2025-state-level-ai-policy-debate/
Cat Moon is featured in this InsideHigherEd article, Law Schools Embrace AI. She discusses how law schools must prepare students to be intentional users of AI technology, which will require them to have foundational knowledge and understanding of technology and AI.
Cat Moon wrote in the summer edition of the Tennessee Bar Association's Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Mobilizing the Power of Technology edition about how the lab is exploring how AI can expand legal access, support pro bono services and empower individuals to navigate the legal system more effective.
Mark Williams as co-author, alongside Vanderbilt Data Science's Umang Chaudhry, Ethan I. Thorpe and J.B. Ruhl of Vanderbilt Law, and Dr. Mariah D. Caballero of Wellesley College.
A Lawyer's Guide to Getting Started with AI (Spring 2025)
Cat Moon published in ABA's Law Practice Management (March/April 2025 issue)
Vals AI published its first study of how several legal tech companies responded to a series of tests set for them by major law firms. The evaluation looked at various legal AI providers on the market and evaluated key metrics in performance (Harvey, CoCounsel, LexisNexis).
VAILL team members, Mark, Kyle, and Emily, participated.
