AI is transforming legal systems, organizations, solutions, and the profession worldwide. It is reshaping how legal work gets done, how people access law, and how justice is delivered. It is also redefining leadership in law and even what it means to be a legal professional. 

This transformation can deepen existing inequities or become the greatest opportunity in over a century to build something better.

The outcome depends on who leads this new era in law and what they build.

Lady Justice Initiative exists to shape both: more women leading AI transformation and transformation that serves justice. 

What We Do

We support two interconnected initiatives shaping the AI era of law. 

Lex 2X Exec | Leadership for the AI Era of Law

For women ready to shape AI transformation, now is the time to build leadership capabilities, expand influence, and reimagine what's possible. 

We're seizing this historic moment to build women's power and reimagine a legal sector where women thrive. We help women in law claim a seat at the tables where decisions are being made and build new tables for the AI era through initiatives such as:

• Lex 2X Exec, our flagship global leadership development initiative, built specifically for women in the AI era of law. Through executive coaching, executive peer advisory group coaching circles, AI skills and leadership training, and community, we power women to lead what comes next. Lex 2X Exec programs are for women in law-related roles worldwide.
• Justice Circles, peer advisory group coaching circles for women building the future of justice through technology. Circles draw upon the leadership and professional development capabilities of Lex 2X Exec but are tailored for the unique needs of women leading justice and access to justice transformation. 
• AI for Breakfast City Circles for Women in Law, which convene local communities in select cities around the world where women in law build AI competency and leadership capabilities for the AI era, share intelligence, and gain business and leadership opportunities. Circles are for women in law-related roles, including AI policy and governance.  

The Justice Hive | Advancing Justice, Governance, and the Rule of Law in the AI Era

We support practitioners more generally working to maximize the potential of AI to benefit public interests by closing gaps in access to law and legal solutions, ensuring that AI solutions are justice-centered and advance the rule of law, and that transformation serves those who need legal systems most.

Our support includes tailored programs, peer learning, research, and providing resources for practitioners in government, courts, civil society, legal tech, and other business advancing justice and public interest AI.

Why This Combination?

These aren't separate missions. They're two sides of the same opportunity.

The women we support are leading and building: Legal tech founders who are creating products that expand access to legal solutions. Legal executives who are shaping how organizations deploy AI responsibly. Policy voices who are influencing how AI is governed. Justice practitioners who are harnessing AI to deliver better solutions to people who need them most. 

Making justice native in the AI era requires inclusive innovation and leadership.

By investing in both simultaneously, we're building a new era of law where women lead, justice is native, and AI serves its highest potential. 

Who We Are

Lady Justice Initiative (LJI) is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit working globally to build an AI era where women and justice thrive. It works at the intersection of law, AI, and leadership to ensure that as AI reshapes legal systems, institutions, and solutions, its potential to advance justice and other public interests is maximized and that women in law are equipped to lead and access opportunity.

LJI builds leadership infrastructure for the AI era of law by providing executive coaching, peer advisory circles, AI competency and skills building, and a curated global community for women in law. LJI supports individual leaders and partners with governments, judiciaries, companies, law firms, professional associations, law schools, and other institutions investing in leadership capabilities for the new era. 

LJI also advances justice-focused and other public interest AI and AI governance by working to ensure that policy and new systems and solutions are designed to advanced rule of law, justice, and equality through original global research, contributing to the multilateral fora shaping AI transformation and governance, and capacitating practitioners.