‘A Little Robot Lawyer’: How MiAI Law is Different from other LLMs Used by Legal Firms
Dec 15, 2025 | 5 minsFor the past 15 years, Laina Chan, an Australian barrister and authority on construction, property and insurance law, has published widely across the legal landscape.
Like many others in the legal sector, Chan experimented with generative AI tools to mine and gain insights from her own data, but these solutions didn’t deliver.
“I’ve read so many cases, but I don’t have instant recall. I started trying other [vendor’s] AI products, but they were basically just ‘wraps around OpenAI’ that weren’t giving me the precision I wanted. Most importantly, I just wanted to be able to tap my own IP,” Chan tells ADAPT.
Earlier this year, Chan teamed up with India-based AI specialist, Arjun Jain, and others to build and take to market what is believed to be a world-first legal reasoning platform, MiAI Law.
This large language model (LLM) encodes legal reasoning, which Chan says is missing…