Listen to David and Quinten on the LawDroid Manifesto Podcast
Suffolk Law’s LIT Lab co‑director David Colarusso and former legal‑aid attorney Quinten Steenhuis each appeared on the LawDroid Manifesto podcast to discuss innovation in legal education and access to justice. Colarusso describes his experiential‑learning classroom that exposes law students to automation bias and the limits of AI tools. Steenhuis explains how his Massachusetts Defense for Eviction (MADE) smartphone app scales legal assistance to thousands of tenants, moving beyond traditional one‑on‑one service. Both episodes illustrate how AI literacy and technology‑enabled models are reshaping the legal profession.
What Happens when Law Students Build Things
The Legal Innovation and Technology Student Association (LITSA) hosted its first Legal AI Innovation Challenge, where seven law‑student teams built functional legal‑tech prototypes in a two‑hour sprint. The winning team, Kaitlin and Andre, delivered LegalTree HAI, an MVP that combines...
How to Set up a Free, Open-Source, Local AI Assistant Using Ollama, Granite, and Open-WebUI
The Suffolk LIT Lab hosted a community workshop where JJ Asghar demonstrated how to build a free, open‑source AI assistant that runs entirely on a local machine. The tutorial combined Ollama for model serving, the Granite LLM for efficient inference,...
New AssemblyLine Code Linter and APIs Help You Build Docassemble Interviews with AI
AssemblyLine released a new code linting tool and a set of APIs that streamline the creation of Docassemble interviews using artificial intelligence. The tools were demonstrated in a recent community workshop led by Quinten, showcasing how developers can integrate AI...