Will Chen builds Mike, an open-source legal AI platform for reviewing, drafting and researching documents. His work applies legal-practice experience to software that firms can inspect, modify and operate themselves.[2][4]
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Education
Links
Repository GitHub · willchen96 
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Chen says he studied law, worked as a lawyer at Latham & Watkins for three years and coded as a hobby while at university. Mike grew from that overlap between his profession and his interest in building software.[4]
Contributions
Mike combines a document-aware assistant, projects and a library with reusable review workflows. Its repository describes editing with tracked changes, tabular review and US case-law research. The application separates the web interface, backend, authentication, database and object storage, giving a deploying team concrete components to configure and operate.[3]
Ideas
In his interview, Chen argues that firms should be able to own and modify their legal AI stack. He distinguishes the public demonstration from a firm’s deployment and identifies enterprise scalability as further work. The proposal concerns the delivery and control of software, alongside its document-review functions.[4]
Tools, writing & talks
Apps
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Mikemikeoss.comAn open-source platform for legal document review, drafting and research.
Use the product demonstration to understand the workflow, then read the repository setup. Self-hosting requires the documented database, object storage and model-provider configuration; model usage has separate costs.
Creator and maintainer[1][2][3]Original source