About LegalQuants

Our thesis

Lawyers of the future need to be excellent at tech to be excellent at law.

We are not just 'superusers' or 'AI champions'. We are about a rare yet highly-advanced group of lawyers who operate with technology as deeply as professional engineers. They are comfortable with writing code, contributing to open source, deploying AI systems, penetration testing websites and building cybersecurity. But they are not just engineers who build, they are also commercial and strategic geniuses who know how to commercialise their product or skills. We call that group legal quants.

We believe huge economic value will be shifted to legal quants because they extract economic value faster than platforms are able to churn out dumbed-down software for the masses. That's the shift LegalQuants exists to accelerate.

The Legal Quant

What is a legal quant?

A legal quant:

• can build with anything to deliver 10x results, whether it be with simple office tools or bleeding-edge AI
• high agency — bias toward action and execution, from design to production
• is competent and competitive enough to be an engineer if they weren't a lawyer

If this sounds like you, then you have found your home here.

Legal Quant ≠ Legal Engineer

A legal engineer only optimises existing legal workflows. We see that as incremental change.

Legal quants completely reimagine legal services from first principles — redesigning the client experience, monitoring new signals, finding new markets, reimagining what the output would look like. This comes from close intimacy with the client, meeting demand in places they don't yet know to look, and pushing the frontier of law itself using frontier technology.

Joining

How do I join this network?

We are invitation-only and our current acceptance rate sits at around 20%.

Apply if you believe you have a clear thesis on how to reimagine legal work and have a demonstrated track record of automating legal service at scale. If you have only tinkered with prompt engineering, built Copilot agents or created one to two skills here and there, we would encourage you to explore frontier technology and design systems until you have something to show us.

If we reject you, please don't feel discouraged. Many LQs get in on their second or third attempt upon re-application. We provide you with clear areas to improve upon.

We will launch an LQAcademy down the road to show what we are looking for.

What does the interview with LegalQuants look like?

Our interview is rapid-fire and straight to the point — we'd rather spend the time understanding what you've built than walking through pleasantries.

We value:

High agency. You have independently, without any formal mandate by anyone, built tools. If you already do this as your job, then the bar is raised higher naturally.

Real shipping. You have actually shipped things that are used in real client work, not for fun or throwaway code.

Obsession. You build nights and weekends because you can't help yourself — not because anyone's paying you to.

Membership

What do you get as a member?

We field opportunities from the demand side for this new category of talent — applied builds, research engagements, training mandates, recruitment, speaking. If we believe you are a good fit, we will allocate opportunities to you. If you wish to commercialize your work, let's chat.

You also get a verified portfolio that proves what you've shipped, a vetted peer network of lawyers who actually ship software, intelligence on what the community is building and debating, and early access to platforms our infrastructure partners are still building.

Can I stay stealth?

Sure. You are welcome to stay stealth. We recognise that not everyone can be visible and vocal. The bar / standard is still the same though.

You can choose to appear anonymously (e.g. "Senior Associate, Magic Circle Firm, London"), be visible only to vetted organisations, or go fully public. Change at any time.

The Community

You show us what you've built. We verify it's real. You share what you learn with the community. Everyone does. That's what makes it work.

Compound generosity. Share what works. Share your on-the-ground insights. The more nuanced, the better. Your notes get better when others edit them. Gatekeeping, hoarding, and commercial promotions are frowned upon.

Ship over speak. The group rewards builders, not just talkers. Good ideas are table stakes. Who actually built the thing?

Lift, don't lord. Knowledge transfers upward. Senior members exist to make juniors better, not to remind them of the hierarchy. Credit travels up through the open work, not through seniority.

The group thinks. Individual members are smart. The group is wiser. Questions go to the room, not just DMs. Ideas are stress-tested, news headlines are debated. Unconventional thinking is welcomed.

Origin

Jamie Tso got into AI early — as a trainee, he hired ML engineers on Upwork to train small language models to label prospectuses. By the time he was a senior associate at Clifford Chance in Hong Kong, he was building viral internal tools on Power Automate that ended up being used across 18 offices. Tired of lawyers being in the back seat of legal tech, he rebuilt Harvey and Legora's core tabular review feature in an afternoon and open-sourced it. The demo racked up 160K+ views, the repo was forked 100+ times, and a vibe-coding movement among lawyers kicked off in its wake.

Raymond Sun was navigating a similar path as a tech lawyer at another global law firm in Sydney. A lifelong coder who taught himself to build games in high school, Raymond used the COVID lockdowns to develop a viral machine-learning app for K-pop dancers. He also became well known in the AI community for solo-developing the Global AI Regulation Tracker — the world's first interactive and complete global map of AI regulation across more than 200 countries, with an API used by AI safety institutes, governance platforms and professionals around the world.

The bigger shift Jamie saw wasn't the tools — it was the people building them. So he went looking for his kind. He found Raymond and a tight network of legal quants he now knows personally, and made it his mission to find new markets for them. What started as a five-person WhatsApp group has since organically exploded into LegalQuants.