Ready for Tomorrow: 2L Marilyn Aguilar-Portillo builds AI tool to analyze bias in court cases
Ready for Tomorrow: 2L Marilyn Aguilar-Portillo builds AI tool to analyze bias in court cases
Publish Date: 2026-05-14 11:09:00
Source Domain: www.uclawsf.edu
- Marilyn Aguilar-Portillo, a 2L at UC Law San Francisco, built an AI tool named CRT Trial Auditor as part of the AI-Enabled Lawyers Bootcamp to identify and uncover patterns of bias in legal cases.
- The CRC Trial Auditor applies Critical Race Theory to analyze case files for hidden biases such as coded language and unfair assumptions that could influence outcomes.
- The bootcamp, offered as part of LexLab, provided practical experience in using AI for legal analysis, research, drafting, discovery, and document analysis.
- Aguilar-Portillo gained a practical framework for integrating AI into her future legal practice, learning to supercharge legal advocacy with AI.
- The program emphasizes ethical issues around privilege, conflicts, and professional responsibility in AI application and prepares students to engage with the evolving challenges of AI in legal practice.
