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AI Women in Law
A live course for women lawyers · Saturdays 13:00 Bangkok / 16:00 Brisbane
About

A legal profession where women lawyers design and build the AI tools that shape their work, and are known for it.

Mission

Our mission is to help women in law learn AI in a way that creates value for them, personally and professionally: in the work they do every day and in how their careers develop.

The numbers

The legal profession is large and growing. The United States had 1,374,720 lawyers in 2025, 5.6% more than ten years earlier [1]. Australia had 47% more practising solicitors in 2024 than in 2014 [2].

Exhibit 1

The number of lawyers is growing, fastest in Australia.

Growth in the number of lawyers over ten years, %.

  • Australian practising solicitors, 2014 to 2024+47%
  • US lawyers, 2015 to 2025+5.6%

Sources: [1], [2].

Women are now 56% of Australian solicitors [2], 55% of lawyers in law firms in England and Wales [3], and 56% of US law students [4].

In AI, the share of women is smaller. Women were 26% of people hired into AI jobs in the US in 2025 [5]. A review of studies covering more than 300,000 people in over 100 countries found that 39.3% of women used generative AI, compared with 47.8% of men [6].

Exhibit 2

Women are more than half of lawyers and law students, and about a quarter of people hired into AI jobs.

Share who are women, %. Dashed line marks 50%.

  • US law students56%
  • Australian solicitors56%
  • Lawyers in law firms, England and Wales55%
  • People hired into AI jobs, US26%

Sources: [2], [3], [4], [5].

Exhibit 3

Fewer women than men use generative AI.

Share who use generative AI, %, across studies of more than 300,000 people in over 100 countries.

  • Women39.3%
  • Men47.8%

Source: [6].

  1. American Bar Association, 2025 Profile of the Legal Profession, 8 December 2025.
  2. Urbis for the Law Society of NSW, 2024 National Profile of Solicitors, 13 June 2025.
  3. Solicitors Regulation Authority, Diversity in law firms' workforce, 11 March 2026.
  4. American Bar Association, Women in the Legal Profession, Profile of the Legal Profession 2024 (2023 data).
  5. LinkedIn, Women account for 26% of AI hires, 18 August 2026. LinkedIn members only.
  6. Cranney, Delecourt and Koning, Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI Over Time, Harvard Business School Working Paper 25-023, May 2026 (summary).

How the course does it

We built the course around that mission. Participants work in groups of 2 to 4 and learn AI by using it on a problem from their own work: they redesign how that work is handled, build a working first version of a tool with AI, and leave with something they can use, show and keep improving.

The course is taught by women who build, in small live groups, with scholarships for anyone who cannot afford the fee. Sponsors support the running and growth of the programme. Every participant who finishes joins a public directory of women lawyer-builders.

Principles

Start with the problemWe start with a problem the participant knows well and redesign how it is handled before anyone builds anything.
Women teach womenEvery speaker and buddy is a woman lawyer who builds with AI. Men are welcome as contributors and allies.
Taught by practitionersSpeakers are lawyers who use these tools in their own work.
An approachable paceThe course is paced for someone who has not built anything before. Auditors can join every session to watch and listen, for a lower fee.
A buddy for each groupEach group has a buddy who checks in during the week.
A public directoryEach builder is listed with what she built, her GitHub repository and her LinkedIn profile.
Course feeThe course fee is US$199. Sponsors support the running and growth of the programme.
ScholarshipsScholarships of 50% or 100% of the fee are available for anyone who cannot afford it. Lawyers working in the public sector, including government, courts, regulators and legal aid, receive a full scholarship automatically when they register with a government email address.

Founders

Founded by Abigail Serrano and Lana Kelly.

With thanks also to the women lawyers who gave feedback on the first drafts.