law.MIT.edu 2026 Summer Intensive

About the Summer Intensive

The law.MIT.edu 2026 Summer Intensive is designed for lawyers, legal innovators, technologists, students, researchers, and community builders who want practical experience with modern AI agent systems in legal and professional work.

The session moves from framing to practice: what is changing, what lawyers need to understand, how agents can support real work, and how communities can use shared online rooms to propose ideas, form teams, and build outputs together.

We are delighted to welcome the new law.MIT.edu Summer Intensive Teaching Assistant Lakshita Bhargava. Lakshita is currently a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in the Master of Laws LL.M., AI Governance program.

Program and Speakers

Planned speakers and high-level topics are below. Specific session details may be updated as the Summer Intensive approaches.

12:00 PM

Welcome and Overview — Dazza Greenwood

12:15 PM

Keynote — Sandy Pentland

12:30 PM

The Future of AI and Law — Roland Vogl

12:45 PM

Hands-On: Claude Code, Codex, and Agent Skills — Matt Pollins

Participants can use Matt Pollins’ session on Claude Code, Codex, and agent skills to explore how legal research can become part of practical agent workflows. Descrybe provides a full legal research platform, Legal Engine access for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, and an Open Connector for custom tools and workflows, helping participants bring verifiable legal research, authority relationships, and source-grounded legal intelligence into their course exercises.

1:20 PM

HTMLaw: Building Better Client Communications Through Code — Dan Sito

Participants may request use of Descrybe as a legal research resource for the HTMLaw exercise, helping turn source-grounded legal research into interactive guidance and decision tools.

1:40 PM

Role Models — Examples of the new manner of law practice: Alexis Werth and Emily Cabrera

1:55 PM

Wrap Up and Next Steps — Dazza Greenwood

2:00 PM

Main Program Closes

Speakers and Session Leaders

Host & Facilitator Photo of Dazza Greenwood

Dazza Greenwood

law.MIT.edu · CIVICS.com

Welcome, workshop framing, overview of the current transformation, and next steps.

Keynote

Sandy Pentland

MIT

Keynote session for the Summer Intensive.

Featured Speaker Photo of Roland Vogl

Roland Vogl

Stanford CodeX

The future of AI, law, and computational legal practice.

Hands-On Session Photo of Matt Pollins

Matt Pollins

Agents.law

Claude Code, Codex, agent skills, and practical agent workflows.

Hands-On Project Photo of Dan Sito

Dan Sito

General Legal · LegalQuants

HTMLaw: Building Better Client Communications Through Code.

Role Model Photo of Alexis Werth

Alexis Werth

Legal Quants

Examples of the new manner of law practice and hands-on legal innovation.

Role Model Photo of Emily Cabrera

Emily Cabrera

Legal Quants

Examples of accessible, practical, agent-supported innovative legal work.

Featured Legal Research Resource: Descrybe

Descrybe is a legal research and intelligence platform built to help people and AI systems work more effectively with U.S. primary law. For the law.MIT.edu 2026 Summer Intensive, Descrybe is making its AI-powered legal research tools available free of charge for a limited time to registered participants for use in course exercises and team-based projects. Participants can request use of Descrybe to support legal research, authority mapping, verification, and source-grounded project outputs. Access details will be shared with registered participants.

Learn more about Descrybe resources for the Summer Intensive: Descrybe Legal Research Resource.

How to make the most of this

Use Descrybe as the bridge between legal research and agent work. The course is not just about using agents to draft and work faster. It is about learning how to scope, structure, and extend human judgment, legal sources, agent capabilities, verification, and shared outputs.
Connect it to Dan Sito’s HTMLaw project. The practical message is: research the law, verify the authorities, then build a usable client-facing artifact with an agent. You can use the AI agent integrations to ground and enrich your work with Descrybe.
Connect it to the 2:00–4:00 PM Interlateral team sessions. Participants can request use of Descrybe as part of team projects to find and verify legal materials, then use Interlateral to collaborate with humans and agents on shared outputs.

Background Reading

Recommended background reading to get the most out of the Summer Intensive. Not required, but helpful context for the hands-on exercises and discussions.

Authority Boundaries for AI

By Dazza Greenwood · Aug 2026

As agent systems become more capable, the central design question is no longer just whether a human is in the loop. It is how the system defines what an agent may do, what a lawyer or professional must decide, what requires verification or approval, what must be logged, and what must be refused. These authority boundaries are becoming the architecture of professional judgment itself, and in the post-transformation age of AI agents they will literally help define what people pay you for.

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How To Train Your Agent

By Matt Pollins (Agents.law) · Jan 2026

How Skills — folders of instructions and reference materials — transform AI agents from generalists into specialists for legal tasks. A practical look at capturing institutional knowledge and making tacit expertise reusable. By one of our workshop speakers.

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Building AI-Native Professional Services Firms

By Daniel Martin Katz, Michael J. Bommarito II & Jillian Bommarito · 273 Ventures

A comprehensive guide to strategy, economics, and execution for firms building on AI as foundational infrastructure. Covers organizational design, technology strategy, talent, and regulatory considerations. New chapters released weekly — relevant to AI-native law firms and other AI-native professional services firms.

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The Claude-Native Law Firm

Zack Shapiro · via X/Twitter

A look at what it means to build a law firm around Claude as the core operating layer — not as an add-on tool but as the foundation of how the firm works. By one of our workshop speakers.

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How Do AI-Native Law Firms Work?

Artificial Lawyer · Mar 31, 2026

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AI-Native Law Firm Directory Launches

Artificial Lawyer · Mar 30, 2026

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The Three Legal AI Models for Law Firms

Artificial Lawyer · Dec 16, 2025

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The New Model Army Has Arrived

Artificial Lawyer · Nov 24, 2025

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Autopilots Can Absorb $60bn of Legal Work — Sequoia

Artificial Lawyer · Mar 30, 2026

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California Proposes AI Amendments to Rules of Professional Conduct

State Bar of California · Public Comment Open Through May 4, 2026

Proposed amendments to six existing ethics rules (competence, client communication, confidentiality, candor to tribunals, and supervision) to clarify that traditional professional duties apply when lawyers use generative AI and AI agents. Not new rules — targeted clarifications making explicit what competent, ethical practice already requires. Directly relevant to anyone using AI agents in legal work.

Read the Proposal →

AI Agent ID: Identity, Delegation, and Accountability for Autonomous Agents

By Dazza Greenwood · Nov 2025

As AI agents move from experiments into production, who are they acting as — and who is accountable? Introduces an OpenID Foundation whitepaper addressing authentication, authorization, and delegation for autonomous agents operating across organizational boundaries. Directly relevant to the workshop’s focus on multi-agent collaboration and the Interlateral demo.

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Various Posts on AI Agents: A Grounding Collection

By Dazza Greenwood · May 2025

A curated set of posts covering how AI agents are reshaping transactional systems and legal frameworks — from agency law and loyalty obligations to Agent-to-Agent protocols and error handling. Good starting point for anyone new to the topic or looking for broader context before the workshop.

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Agent Skills Hub for Law

Lawvable

Discover reusable AI automations built by legal experts. Use them instantly in your favorite AI assistant. A growing library of ready-made agent skills for legal work.

Explore →

Making Legal Skills: Setting Up Claude Cowork

By Kyle Bahr · LinkedIn

A practical walkthrough of setting up Claude Cowork with custom skills, memory files, and activity logs — using complementary AI tools together rather than as competitors. Useful prep for workshop participants getting their agents ready.

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Special Interactive Multiplayer Agent Session

We are planning a special live interactive and agent-to-agent collaboration session after the main program. This is where participants can bring Claude Code, Codex, or a comparable agent into Interlateral collaboration rooms to form teams, test workflows, and learn how to produce shared outputs.

The optional 2:00–4:00 PM session will be a team-based working session: invited participants can propose topics, form small groups, and bring their own AI agents into shared Interlateral rooms to work on practical outputs together. For team-based projects, registered participants may request limited-time Descrybe access to support legal research, authority checks, and source-grounded outputs as part of team projects. Details about participation will be shared soon.

Team-based projects may be considered for inclusion in the upcoming AI Agents x Law initial publication of the new Stanford Computational Law Report.

How to Participate

1

Main program

12:00–2:00 PM Pacific · Online via Zoom: talks, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises with the speakers and high-level themes above.

2

Optional Interlateral team-based sessions

2:00–4:00 PM Pacific: simultaneous collaboration groups where participants can propose the topics, form teams, and develop shared outputs. This is a “bring your own agent” approach and enables a new kind of multi-player shared third-space human/agent collaboration method.

Participants should bring their own agent. Registered participants may request limited-time access to Descrybe for legal research and verification as part of course exercises and projects.

3

Register to participate

Sign up to receive updates, participation details, and team-based session invitation information.

Register

The law.MIT.edu 2026 Summer Intensive was conceived as part of a near-future speculative fiction piece entitled Three Rooms and is being offered free of charge for all the Lina Vosses out there.

Existing tutorials, readings, and prior event materials remain available below.

Event Retrospective

Three participants in the debut Interlateral.com event join Dazza Greenwood for a retrospective on what happened, how it worked, and what it means. Thanks to Joel Kaufmann, Emily Cabrera, and Patrick Dunne for generously sharing their time and perspectives.

Using the Interlateral platform and methods, individuals and our agents can come together to interact, collaborate, and even transact in shared “third-spaces” designed exactly for these types of experiences.

Watch the full retrospective on YouTube →

Highlights Reel

Short on time? This 5½-minute highlights reel condenses the key moments from the full 35-minute retrospective conversation.

Watch the highlights reel on YouTube →

Program

Monday, April 13, 2026 · 1:30–4:30 PM Pacific · Stanford Law School, Room 270. Light refreshments, coffee, and tea sponsored by CodeX.

1:30 PM

Dazza Greenwood

Welcome and workshop framing

1:40 PM

HANDS-ON EXERCISE

Agent platform introduction and agent onboarding

Give your agent Prompt 1 →

1:50 PM

Richard Tromans

What is an AI-Native Law Firm?

2:00 PM

Zack Shapiro

The Claude-Native Law Firm

2:10 PM

Helen Fan

Building AI-native law firms with agents

2:20 PM

Robert Mahari

AI agents, law, and computational law

2:30 PM

Nima Mohebbi

California proposed rules for generative AI in law practice

2:40 PM

PARTICIPANT Q&A

Participant Q&A and facilitated discussion

2:50 PM

HANDS-ON EXERCISE

Agent setup support and live platform check-in

3:00 PM

AI AGENT PARTICIPATORY DEMO: PART I

Live topic proposal and voting with participant agents

Give your agent Prompt 2 →

3:05 PM

Kyle Bahr

Quick skills demo: how agents use the SKILL file to propose and vote

3:15 PM

Olga Mack

Contracts Are Systems. Agents Are Actors: Managing the Shift from Documents to Dynamic Legal Systems

3:35 PM

AI AGENT PARTICIPATORY DEMO: PART II

Collaborative AI agent discussion across top-voted topics

Give your agent Prompt 3 →

3:50 PM

GROUP REFLECTION

Report-outs and group reflections from the collaborative AI agent session

4:00 PM

Damien Riehl

The Agentic Spectrum: Shipping Outcomes, Not Architectures

4:15 PM

Bryan Wilson

Computational Law Report announcement

4:20 PM

Matt Pollins

The Rise of Vibe Coding and AI-Native Law Firms (Prerecorded)

4:25 PM

Dazza Greenwood

Closing reflections, next steps, and community resources

4:30 PM

END

Workshop concludes

What to Expect

The workshop has two parts, moving from learning to doing. Attendees will leave with hands-on experience using real agent tools and a practical understanding of agentic workflows for professional work. The session will also explore how a new generation of AI Native lawyers and legal organizations is emerging across in-house teams, law firms, and other legal-service contexts.

Part 1: Agent Teach-In

Practical show-and-tell: learn to use AI agents by doing.

Guided demonstrations with OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Code, and Google Gemini CLI
Individual exercises and group activities
Workflow patterns that generalize across agents and platforms, including Agent Skills
Guest speakers from AI Native law firms and in-house legal teams sharing how they already run professional work through AI agents

Part 2: Live Interactive Agents

Capstone participatory demo: see agents working together in action.

Live multi-agent collaboration on Interlateral.com
Participants bring their own agents into a shared working environment
Real-time cross-participant agent interaction
Experience how agentic workflows support research, drafting, analysis, and coordination

AI Native Lawyers

A new wave of lawyers and legal organizations is being built around AI agents from the start—not adding agents to existing workflows, but building the workflow around the agent. These AI Native practices span in-house corporate legal teams, new-model law firms, and emerging legal organizations. Several of our guest speakers represent this cohort; additional speakers to be announced.

In-House Legal Teams

In-house legal teams at the forefront are deploying AI agents directly into the business workflows they serve—research, contract review, compliance, and cross-functional coordination—and measuring agents against the organization's own standards, not generic benchmarks.

AI Native Law Firms

A new wave of law firms is building client service around agentic workflows from the ground up—using AI agents for research, drafting, and matter management as the foundation of practice, not an add-on to it.

Workshop Leaders

The workshop is led by Dazza Greenwood, with guest speakers representing the emerging wave of AI Native lawyers and legal organizations—spanning in-house practice, law firm work, and newly emerging legal organizations built around agentic workflows.

Instructor & Facilitator Photo of Dazza Greenwood