Open Source AI Licensing

Will Chen, a former Latham & Watkins associate, has released MikeOSS, a free open-source legal AI platform designed to compete with proprietary tools like Harvey and Legora. The platform enables lawyers to draft, edit, review, and search documents through features including a projects vault, tabular review, and customizable workflows. Users supply their own Claude or Gemini API keys to run the system, which Chen has published on GitHub under an open-source license, allowing firms and developers to self-host and modify the software rather than rely on a vendor's closed infrastructure.