SuperTech reveals tech innovators for innovation programme: harnessing Legal AI to strengthen pro bono capacity and widen access to justice
SuperTech West Midlands has announced the technology companies selected for the LawTech Open Innovation Lab, a national programme designed to benchmark Legal AI tools in real world legal workflows. Uniquely, every workflow in the programme contributes directly to improving pro bono capacity and access to justice.
The programme evaluates AI solutions across document review, legal analysis, correspondence drafting and contract workflows. All benchmarking activities are anchored in pro bono scenarios based on real issues such as in housing and social care, ensuring that the work delivers meaningful benefits to communities who rely on legal clinics and advice services.
This year’s participating technology companies are RagStore, Chancery AI, Lexifina, Libra.law by Tabled Technologies, Clarilis, Largence Group, Amplified Global, Pantheon and TheAi.Team. Each company will test its tools against shared, real world use cases, with a focus on accuracy, transparency, time savings, hallucination risk and senior validation effort.
This SuperTech programme is delivered with law firms Fieldfisher, Mills & Reeve and HCR Law. Each firm provides benchmarking teams and senior legal expertise to support evaluation across realistic legal workflows.
A dedicated Working Group also includes participants from Aston University and its Centre of Excellence for Enterprise AI, and from Warwick Business School and its Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology. Together, they help shape the benchmarking framework, oversee research activity and ensure that the evaluation methods reflect responsible innovation and sector relevance. Their collective expertise strengthens the independence of the programme and supports the sharing of insights across the wider legal and professional services community.
Hilary Smyth-Allen, CEO, SuperTech
“What makes this Open Innovation Lab truly groundbreaking is that every workflow ultimately connects to pro bono work. By grounding AI evaluation in real access to justice scenarios, we are building a programme that delivers benefits far beyond innovation. It strengthens communities, supports legal clinics, and ensures that technology is being developed with genuine public value in mind. We’re thrilled to welcome such an outstanding cohort of companies into this year’s Lab.”
Emma Jackson, Head of Legal Technology and Data, Mills & Reeve
“Collaborating across firms and with AI innovators through the LawTech Open Innovation Lab is a powerful way to build shared evidence about what responsible Legal AI should look like. The fact that all this work feeds directly into pro bono scenarios reinforces why this programme matters. It ensures innovation is anchored in service, ethics and real client needs.”
Grace Hart, Senior Marketing Manager, Clarilis
“We’re delighted to be part of the LawTech Open Innovation Lab. AI trust and evaluation has never been more important, and this is a really exciting opportunity to engage with the legal community about these topics.”
Seth Ward, CEO, TheAi.Team
“Too many AI solutions are built in a vacuum. The Open Innovation Lab flips that, putting innovators and law firms in the same room to solve real problems together. That’s how you build technology that actually gets adopted and delivers results.”
The programme launch will take place at Fieldfisher’s new Birmingham office on 20th March and it will run until 6th May.
Links to tech company participants: RagStore, Chancery AI, Lexifina, Libra.law by Tabled Technologies, Clarilis, Largence Group, Amplified Global, Pantheon and TheAi.Team