Source: https://events.trymimetic.com/events/nyc/legal-engineers-nyc-nov-2026 # Legal Engineers NYC ๐Ÿ“… November 18, 2026 ๐Ÿ• 4:00 PM ET ๐Ÿ“ New York ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Free ยท Approval required ## What we're seeing - **Approval required ยท venue shared on acceptance** ## About This Event **Open or Closed? Choosing Models for Legal Work** Law firms and in-house teams can now choose between closed models from the major labs and open-weights models they run themselves. Which fits which work? We take real law firm and in-house use cases, including privileged documents, clients that ban outside model providers, cross-border matters, cost, and accuracy, and decide open or closed for each, and why. Bring a task and the model you use and we will compare results in the room. Laptops open; no coding required; demos encouraged. We finish with the group's one-page decision guide: which work goes on which kind of model, and the questions nobody has settled yet. Date: Wednesday, November 18, 4:00pm - 5:30pm Location: Manhattan. The address is shared with approved guests. [Legal Engineers NYC](https://www.legalengineers.nyc/?utm_source=luma) is a hands-on group for people who turn law, policy, and practice into the workflows, agents, evals, and controls that run legal work. We meet in Manhattan, laptops open, and build something each time. Any platform counts, and no coding required. Legal Engineers NYC is organized by [ICME Labs](https://icme.io/?utm_source=luma) and led by cofounder [Houman Shadab](https://www.linkedin.com/in/houmanshadab/?utm_source=luma). Contact houman@icme.io to host or sponsor a session. ## Hosted by [Houman Shadab](https://luma.com/user/usr-QFAoZDnvOrFV9KV) ## Location ๐Ÿ“ New York, NY AI Founders Workshop Agents [Register for This Event](https://lu.ma/rerg3x2u?utm_source=trymimetic&utm_medium=calendar&utm_campaign=ai_events) [41 more NYC AI events this week](/events/ai/nyc) Free Growth Analysis ## Get a free growth analysis for your company See how your website, messaging, and go-to-market strategy stack up, in minutes. [Get My Free Analysis](/?utm_source=events&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ai&utm_content=event_detail_cta) ## More NYC events like this ### [Women in CS at Modal](/events/nyc/women-in-cs-at-modal-nov-2026) Today ยท 4:30 PM ET New York, NY ### [Gen&Juice NYC: Drinks with AI Creators, Filmmakers & Comedians](/events/nyc/genjuice-nyc-drinks-with-ai-creators-filmmakers-comedians-nov-2026) Today ยท 6:30 PM ET New York, NY ### [Ground Truth: The Live Agents Hackathon - powered by You.com](/events/nyc/ground-truth-the-live-agents-hackathon-powered-by-youcom-nov-2026) Tomorrow ยท 9:00 AM ET Brooklyn, NY ### [PROMPT: New York](/events/nyc/prompt-new-york-nov-2026) Mon, Nov 16 ยท 2:00 PM ET TBD 61 attending [โ† Back to New York City Events](/events/ai/nyc)