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Attorney + AI Builder · New York

I practice law and build AI.Both, on purpose.

I’m a New York attorney who builds software. Most of my work lives where those two meet — legal judgment on one side, products I actually ship on the other.

Lamariah Smith
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About

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A two-track life.

I grew up in Chicago, went to Spelman to study economics, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa before law school at Northwestern. For most of my twenties I’ve been doing two things in parallel: the legal work, and building. I shipped an AI iOS app solo, and I build AI tools for legal teams now — the kind of work that needs someone who understands both the law and the code. The most interesting problems I find sit right where those two meet, and that’s where I’m putting my time.

Work

Projects

What I’ve built.

Four projects across the AI stack — two shipped, two in the works.

  • Exhibit ALive

    DepoPrep

    Walk into a deposition already knowing where the case breaks.

    Upload a deposition case file. DepoPrep surfaces the timeline, the discrepancies in testimony, the missing evidence, and the moments worth setting up for impeachment — in under a minute. Built for litigators who don’t have a week to read the file.

    • Claude
    • Next.js
    • Vercel
    • Cursor
  • Exhibit BLive

    Marlo AI

    An iOS app for career interview practice.

    A voice-based AI coach I shipped solo to the App Store. Generates dynamic interview scenarios, gives instant feedback on answer structure, and tracks improvement over time.

    • Swift
    • OpenAI
    • RevenueCat
    • App Store
  • Exhibit CProprietary

    20-Agent Build Pipeline

    A multi-agent system that ships full web apps end-to-end.

    Six tiers, twenty subagents, forward-flowing — strategy, architecture, eight parallel front-end builders, polish, and ship. Production runtime today. Deploys live demo apps to Vercel with measurable quality gates at every stage.

    • Claude
    • Next.js 16
    • Vercel
    • Remotion
    • Playwright MCP
    Internal · not public
  • Exhibit DIn production

    Arena

    Your AI talks to theirs. No more copy-paste.

    If you’ve ever copy-pasted a Claude or ChatGPT response into a message to someone, waited for their reply, then pasted it back — Arena fixes that. It connects two people’s AI assistants so they talk to each other directly. You watch the conversation and sign off when it’s done.

    • Claude
    • ChatGPT
    • Cursor
    • Next.js
    • Stripe

Services

AI work, for law firms.

Four offers, focused. Two-week audits up front so you know what you’re buying before we touch your data.

Schedule of servicesDuration
01

AI Workflow Audit + Roadmap

Where AI actually fits in your firm — and where it doesn't.

A two-week assessment with a written report and walkthrough. Maps your workflows against the current AI stack, identifies the three highest-leverage opportunities, and flags privilege and conflicts risks.

1–2 weeks
02

Custom GenAI Tool Build

Document review, contract abstraction, deposition prep — shipped.

End-to-end build of a working tool tailored to one of your workflows. Includes prompt design, evaluation harness, deployment, and a training session for the team using it.

2–6 weeks
03

Multi-Agent Systems for Legal Work

Agentic pipelines for research, drafting, and review.

Same architecture I use to ship six deployed demo apps a week. Multi-step agent systems that coordinate research, draft generation, and quality review with measurable evaluation gates.

3–8 weeks
04

Vendor Evaluation

The right legal-AI tools, chosen against your work — not the demo.

Vendor-agnostic comparison against your actual workflows, not their demo. Includes an internal prompt library and rollout plan. Pick the right tool before you sign the contract.

2–4 weeks

All engagements start with a scoping call. Reach out

§02 · Recognition

On the record.

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    Northwestern Pritzker School of Law · JD 2024

  2. 02

    New York State Bar · 2025

  3. 03

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher · Private Wealth, alumna

  4. 04

    Spelman College · B.A. Economics · Phi Beta Kappa · magna cum laude

  5. 05

    UNCF Chicago · Millennial Masterminds, Class of 2023

  6. 06

    U.S. Attorney's Office, N.D. Illinois · Summer Intern

  7. 07

    JPMorgan Chase · Markets Summer Analyst

    End of record — 7 entries.
§03

Writing

The fine print of power.

Essays on law, AI, economics, and justice — the structures that decide who gets what.

  1. 02

    Wills, trusts, and the AI economy

    Forthcoming

    What estate planning looks like for clients whose assets are equity, IP, and digital identity. The drafting moves that haven't been written yet.

  2. 03

    When the algorithm screens you out

    Forthcoming

    Reflections on a Stanford study on racial bias in AI hiring tools — what happens when the systems built to strip out bias quietly automate it instead.

§04 · Connect

Let’s talk.

For AI engagements, speaking, or to say hello. I read every message myself.