Legal Engineers NYC
Open or Closed? Choosing Models for Legal Work
Law firms and in-house teams can now choose between closed models from the major labs and open-weights models they run themselves. Which fits which work?
We take real law firm and in-house use cases, including privileged documents, clients that ban outside model providers, cross-border matters, cost, and accuracy, and decide open or closed for each, and why. Bring a task and the model you use and we will compare results in the room. Laptops open; no coding required; demos encouraged.
We finish with the group's one-page decision guide: which work goes on which kind of model, and the questions nobody has settled yet.
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: Manhattan. The address is shared with approved guests.
Legal Engineers NYC is a hands-on group for people who turn law, policy, and practice into the workflows, agents, evals, and controls that run legal work. We meet in Manhattan, laptops open, and build something each time. Any platform counts, and no coding required.
Legal Engineers NYC is organized by ICME Labs and led by cofounder Houman Shadab. Contact houman@icme.io to host or sponsor a session.