BARBRI Acquires Lega to Boost Legal AI Fluency
BARBRI, a trusted global leader in legal education, announced the acquisition of Lega, a platform that helps law students, legal professionals, and law firms develop real-world artificial intelligence (AI) fluency through practical, build-as-you-learn experiences.
The legal industry is undergoing seismic change, and the profession needs more than exposure to new tools. It needs practical ways to build judgement, confidence, and fluency in using AI effectively.
The acquisition marks BARBRI’s next step in AI, moving legal education and the profession from talking about AI to fully engaging with it, grounded in the trusted content, learning design, and data-driven development that have helped generations of lawyers succeed.
“BARBRI has been building the AI knowledge and competency foundation for the legal profession through SkillBurst and BARBRI AI courses, alongside broader professional education offerings such as BARBRI CLE/CPE and Prep for Practice,” said Lucie Allen, Co-CEO of BARBRI. “Lega brings a highly practical model that helps learners move from AI awareness to AI fluency. Together, we are committed to equipping law schools, law firms, and legal professionals for an AI-driven profession.”
Since its founding in 2023, Lega has delivered hands-on AI workshops for Am Law 100 firms, legal technology conferences, and innovation summits, and has provided a generative AI lab for experimentation and app development to some of the world’s leading law firms.
“We built Lega around a simple belief: legal professionals need safe, practical, hands-on ways to explore what AI makes possible,” said Christian Lang, Founder and CEO of Lega. “Through our work with firms, schools, and legal teams, we’ve learned that success isn’t about finding the right AI tool. It’s about building fluency, judgement, and confidence in using AI effectively. Joining BARBRI means we can bring experiential AI learning to every law school, every firm, and every professional ready to lead what comes next.”
Looking ahead, BARBRI and Lega plan to expand experiential AI workshops, simulations, hackathons, and lab-style learning experiences that bring law firm practitioners and law students together to address real legal challenges, creating a deliberate bridge between legal education and legal practice built on shared AI competency. Lega’s capabilities will be integrated across BARBRI’s product suite to create a unified experience for learners. Combined with BARBRI’s global footprint and position across the legal education and professional development continuum, Lega’s experiential learning model can now be delivered at scale to law students, lawyers, law firms, and legal organisations worldwide.
Christian Lang will join BARBRI as Head of Innovation, overseeing AI skill development and readiness strategy for students and partners.
About BARBRI
BARBRI is a global leader and one of the largest providers of tech-enabled legal learning solutions for law students, law schools, universities, professionals, law firms, and organisations.
About Lega
Lega helps law firms, law schools, and legal professionals build practical AI fluency through hands-on workshops, simulations, hackathons, and applied learning experiences.