Reflections from the NLSIU AI & Law Forum 2025

The National Law School of India University, Bengaluru held the first edition of the NLSIU AI & Law Forum on May 10, 2025 at the NLS campus. The Forum brought together research scholars, innovative legal tech start-ups, and impactful civil society organisations that leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address legal challenges and contribute to systemic legal reforms.

The Forum featured several engaging events, including:

• Presentations: AI start-ups, research scholars and civil society organisations showcased their products and initiatives. GenAI and legal tech names such as Jurisphere, Axara AI, India Kanoon, Lucio, TrustBridge, WeVaad, XKDR Forum, Jhana.ai, among others, participated in panel discussions about GenAI in relation to the legal profession, legal research, and legal system reforms.
• Workshops: A number of interactive hands-on workshops were held to equip teams of students to explore and build innovative solutions at the intersection of generative AI and law.
• AI Labs: Dedicated labs were set-up to provide premium access to advanced AI platforms. Students had the opportunity to explore various AI software tools relevant to the legal domain.
• Prompt Challenge: The prompts were primarily evaluated on the basis of (a) the outputs they generated through Google’s AI model Gemini 2.5, and (b) for their ability to generate summaries and judgments that were concise, well-structured, and focused on the necessary components of the respective documents. The winning prompts were able to generate the best results and maintain consistency of output quality over a couple of different iterations.
  The winning entries are:
  – Summarisation: Ritesh Raj (BA LLB Hons, 3rd year)
  – Judgment Writing (joint winners): Udit Chaudhary (BA LLB Hons, 3rd year), and Abhinav Somani B.A. LL.B. (BA LLB Hons, 2nd year), Aditya Lohia (BA LLB Hons, 2nd year), and Karthik Sunkad (BA LLB Hons, 2nd year)

View the full agenda here.

Reflections from the Forum

Dr. Rahul Hemrajani, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU & organiser of the Forum: 

“The NLSIU AI & Law Forum 2025 brought together law firms, practitioners, start-ups, civil-society organisations, and academics to explore the transformative applications of artificial intelligence in the legal domain. Discussions centred on AI’s capacity to revolutionise legal practice and adjudication, highlighting how lawyers, courts, and judges are already integrating these technologies into their work. The Forum also featured three intensive student workshops that provided hands-on training with AI tools, an AI Lab where participants experimented with premium general and specialised legal platforms, and a Prompt Challenge in which students competed in prompt-engineering exercises to build legal solutions. The event underscored NLSIU’s commitment to fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and preparing the next generation of legal professionals to navigate—and shape—an AI-driven future.”

Saptarshi Ghosh, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur:

“The NLSIU AI & Law Forum was an exciting event that brought together law practitioners and AI practitioners, both from the industry and academia. I presented some of the works conducted by my research group at IIT Kharagpur on application of AI models in the legal domain. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the talks from some of the leading AI-law start-ups and academics. I believe such events are much needed to achieve effective cooperation and collaboration between the law and the AI community in India.”

Devansh Kaushik, Head of Operations, Lucio:

“It was a pleasure to present Lucio’s vision on the productisation of legal services using GenAI, and to conduct a hands-on workshop with NLSIU students on a sample advisory and a diligence matter conducted using Lucio. We also had engaging discussions on the ethical use of AI and its impact on the profession. The conference and AI Lab at NLSIU were timely, well-curated, and deeply relevant to the future of law. Returning to campus in an industry-expert capacity was nostalgic. As an NLS BA LLB graduate of the Class of 2023 and now Head of Operations at Lucio—a company created and shaped by NLSIU graduates, it’s deeply fulfilling to contribute back to the institution that shaped me.”

Organisers:

• Karthik Suresh, Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
• Shruthi Nair, Research Associate, Project on Exploring Digital Transformation of India’s Consumer Grievance Redressal System through GenAI, NLSIU
• Reshma Sekhar, Academic Fellow, NLSIU
• Siddharth M, Project Manager, JSW Centre for the Future Law, NLSIU

Student Volunteers:

• Ritu Ranjan
• Aditya Pratap Singh
• Rakshith Dwaram
• Ritika Singh
• Sukriti Bisen

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