Weil creates a two-summer AI talent pathway

On October 21, 2026, Weil announced a two-summer program in which selected first-year law students will spend ten weeks with its LASER team before returning as conventional second-year summer associates. Participants will work on active legal projects, learn Python, build a neural network and contribute to legal-software development under a LASER Architect mentor, with the inaugural cohort joining in summer 2027. The model treats technical fluency as part of lawyer development rather than a separate support function, giving the firm an earlier pipeline for hybrid legal-technology capability. Other firms should compare this approach with later-career reskilling and decide which roles genuinely require coding, workflow design or product-management experience.