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BARBRI Acquires Lega to Advance Practical AI Fluency in Legal Sector

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BARBRI, the Dallas-based legal education company, acquired Lega, a Brooklyn startup founded in 2023, to integrate practical AI training into its offerings for law students, lawyers, and firms. The deal closed Monday and brings Christian Lang, Lega's founder, to BARBRI as Head of Innovation. Lega's platform, which previously helped law firms implement generative AI safely, will now focus exclusively on experiential learning—workshops, simulations, hackathons, and lab-style training designed to move legal professionals from AI awareness to actual fluency.

The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. Lega's team will transition to BARBRI, though the size of that team remains unclear.

Established legal education providers are moving aggressively to embed AI competency training as generative AI becomes standard in legal workflows. For practitioners and law firms, the shift matters because it signals where the profession expects baseline AI literacy to sit within five years. Firms should monitor how BARBRI scales this training and whether it becomes a credential expectation for new hires. For law schools, the acquisition suggests that bar exam prep providers now view practical AI instruction as essential to their core mission—a signal worth tracking as curricula evolve.

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