Ulster University announced a strategic partnership with enterprise AI company Leah to integrate the Leah Legal platform into the university’s Legal Innovation and Technology Law master’s program, giving students hands-on experience with AI tools used in modern legal workflows.
The collaboration aims to prepare future legal professionals for a rapidly evolving industry where artificial intelligence increasingly supports tasks such as contract review, document analysis, drafting, and evaluation of AI-generated outputs. Through the program, students will interact directly with enterprise-grade legal AI systems rather than studying them purely as theoretical concepts.
Leah Legal is designed around an agentic AI architecture that supports end-to-end legal workflows. Instead of operating as a standalone chatbot, the system organizes AI capabilities around defined legal tasks and processes, allowing organizations to embed AI into existing legal operations while maintaining appropriate oversight.
According to Ulster University, the platform enables students to better understand how AI fits into professional legal environments by demonstrating how technology can assist at multiple stages of the legal process. The hands-on exposure is intended to help students evaluate AI outputs critically, recognize system limitations, and apply proper human supervision when using AI tools.
Leah said the partnership aligns with its broader mission of advancing legal education and equipping students with practical legal engineering skills. By working directly with the platform, students will gain insight into how legal technology products are developed, tested, and validated in real-world settings.
The company, headquartered in London, provides agentic AI infrastructure that allows enterprises to build and manage intelligent agents across areas such as legal, procurement, and finance. Leah’s technology evolved from its contract lifecycle management and Leah Legal solutions and now supports enterprise-wide automation and workflow orchestration.
Leah has been recognized by Gartner as a CLM Visionary for five consecutive years and was named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for AI-enabled buy-side CLM applications.
Both organizations said the collaboration will explore how immersive AI experiences can help train the next generation of lawyers to operate effectively in AI-enabled legal environments.
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“Ulster University’s Legal Innovation and Technology Law course needed a platform that could demonstrate how AI supports different stages of legal workflows. Leah offers students exposure to a range of real-world applications – whether they’re reviewing contracts, analysing documents, drafting new content, or evaluating AI outputs – showing them the practical versatility of AI across legal tasks.”
Adam Buick, Course Director at Ulster University
“Leah is committed to advancing legal education, and this partnership is a natural fit. The course emphasizes practical legal engineering skills, understanding how legal tech products are developed, tested, and validated. Leah provides a real-world platform for students to learn these concepts in practice while preparing for careers in AI-enabled legal environments.”
Anurag Malik, President & CTO, Leah
