Legal engineering is gaining traction as a new way of applying legal expertise at scale, and Norm Ai has been at the forefront of shaping this approach. Rather than relying on traditional, manual legal analysis, legal engineering blends legal judgement with artificial intelligence to operationalise regulations across complex, regulated industries.
Norm Ai recently delved into what legal engineering is and how it is transforming the landscape.
At Norm Ai, legal engineering is carried out by former attorneys with training from leading law schools and top law firms. The company employs more than 30 attorneys who, on joining, complete an intensive programme designed to help them understand how large language models function, where their limits lie, and how they can be safely deployed in legal and compliance contexts. Once trained, these legal engineers use a no-code environment to build domain-specific AI agents that perform regulatory and legal analysis.
This work is powered by Norm Ai’s proprietary Legal Engineering Automation Platform, known as LEAP. The platform was built specifically for lawyers, enabling attorneys and former regulators to convert statutes, regulations, and legal standards into AI-powered systems without relying on software engineers. These AI agents are not static tools. They are dynamic systems capable of analysing regulatory obligations while also explaining, step by step, how each determination has been reached, a critical requirement in highly regulated sectors.
Legal engineering at Norm Ai follows a structured and disciplined methodology inspired by software engineering best practices. Any change to regulatory logic must be reviewed by another certified legal engineer before being implemented. This process ensures consistency, accuracy, and accountability. LEAP also allows AI agents to be tailored to individual client needs, including internal compliance policies, firm-specific regulatory interpretations, and varying risk appetites across business units.
Norm Ai’s client base spans financial institutions, asset managers, and insurance companies representing more than $25tn in combined assets under management.
The key difference between legal engineering and traditional legal practice lies in scalability. Conventional legal work focuses on advising one client at a time, often through memos or interpretative guidance. Legal engineers, by contrast, build systems that embed legal expertise directly into technology, making it repeatable, adaptable, and continuously improvable. This approach mirrors software engineering, where tools are designed to be reused and refined over time.
A typical day for a legal engineer reflects this hybrid role. Time is spent reviewing regulatory updates, collaborating with software teams, building new regulatory logic within LEAP, and refining AI agents based on client feedback. The result is a continuous loop of legal insight, technical development, and practical application.
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