Adventures In Legal Tech Good Vibrations - How Vibe Coding Is Infiltrating Legal
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Apr 6, 2026 Max Paterson, Managing Director at Brighter and legal technologist who builds no-code/AI tools and teaches legal AI. He talks about vibe coding and how natural-language app building opens innovation to lawyers and nontechnical staff. They cover risks like security and shadow AI. Conversation touches on productized services, new billing models, and practical ways to get started.
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Start With High-Volume Low-Complexity Tasks
- Prioritize automating high-volume, low-complexity legal tasks as early vibe coding targets.
- Paterson recommends starting with repetitive work inside firms or corporate legal where prompts can generate high-quality outputs.
Winning A Hackathon With A Voice Legal App
- Paterson won a global legal hackathon by building a voice-access legal app with a mostly non-technical teammate.
- The project aimed to let users access legal information through devices like Google Home and Alexa on every lawyer's desk.
Innovation Hours Turn Shadow AI Into Sponsored Experimentation
- Firms are experimenting with sanctioned innovation time and sandbox access so lawyers can build safely instead of only relying on rogue 'shadow AI'.
- Paterson describes firms that allocate innovation hours counting toward annual targets to encourage exploration.