The LegalQuants Podcast
Long conversations with the people building legal AI. Each episode is on YouTube and Spotify.
Episode 2 · 28 September 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
Andrew Simon: Building a Startup Inside Big Law
Victor Wang talks with Andrew Simon, Chief AI & Innovation Officer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, about building legal AI inside a large firm. Lawyers bring the ideas and prototypes, and a small team turns them into working applications.
- How he evaluates a new legal AI product
- Why retrieval is one of the hardest problems in legal AI
- Why the firm runs closed frontier models alongside open-weight models
- How decentralized innovation takes an idea from a lawyer's prototype to a firm-wide tool
- The case for an industry standards body
Episode 1 · 25 September 2026 · 24 min
How Lawyers Built Frontier Plugins for OpenAI
Victor Wang talks with two of the builders behind the LegalQuants plugins for OpenAI for Law. They describe how legal expertise became working plugins, and what feedback from OpenAI changed.
- Why OpenAI asked for concrete, customizable legal workflows
- How marketplace discovery changed the product
- What makes a flagship skill
- How cite-checking, diligence and redlining fit into larger workflows
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