BARBRI, the Dallas-based legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, acquired Lega, a Brooklyn, New York startup that teaches law students, lawyers and law firms practical AI skills. BARBRI announced the deal on 22 June 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Lega's founder and chief executive, Christian Lang, joined BARBRI as head of innovation. In that role he oversees AI skill development and the company's AI readiness strategy for students and partners. BARBRI said Lega's capabilities would be integrated across its product suite.
The two companies plan to expand experiential AI training, including workshops, simulations, hackathons and lab-style sessions, and to run programmes that bring law firm practitioners and law students together to work on real legal problems.
What Lega built
Lega launched in 2023 with a different product. According to LawNext, it began as a platform for governing how lawyers use large language models. It gave large law firms a single enterprise layer to reach several models, with single sign-on, compliance checkpoints and audit logs, so lawyers could try AI tools without working outside the firm's oversight.
The company later moved toward experiential AI learning. It ran a generative AI lab where some large law firms could experiment and build applications, and it delivered hands-on AI workshops for Am Law 100 firms, legal technology conferences and innovation summits. A client AI lab Lega ran with the law firm Fasken, which brought the firm's lawyers together with client legal leaders to work on practical AI use cases, won the Most Inspiring Showcase Audience Award at the 2026 Skills Law Showcase.
LawNext's Bob Ambrogi wrote that the deal completed Lega's shift from AI governance to training, and that he suspected the original governance product was being phased out, though he had not confirmed this with Lang.
“Lega brings a highly practical model that helps learners move from AI awareness to AI fluency.”
Why BARBRI is buying
BARBRI describes itself as a provider of tech-enabled legal learning with about 60 years in legal education. It is headquartered in Dallas and has offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its existing professional and AI offerings include SkillBurst, BARBRI AI courses, BARBRI CLE/CPE and Prep for Practice.
Co-CEO Lucie Allen said Lega "brings a highly practical model that helps learners move from AI awareness to AI fluency." She added that the combined business was committed to preparing law schools, law firms and legal professionals "for an AI-driven profession."
Lega is BARBRI's second AI-related acquisition in under two years. In September 2024 it bought SkillBurst Interactive, which provides structured, on-demand training content. LawNext noted that Lega adds the opposite format: live, facilitated training built around scenarios.
The founder
Lang started his legal career as an associate at the law firm Davis Polk. He later served as president and chief operating officer of Reynen Court, a legal technology app store that has since shut down, and he founded the NY Legal Tech Meetup, according to LawNext.
In BARBRI's announcement, Lang said success with AI in law "isn't about finding the right AI tool" but about "building the fluency, judgment, and confidence to use AI effectively." He said joining BARBRI would let Lega bring experiential AI learning "to every law school, every firm, and every professional ready to lead what comes next."
Neither company disclosed whether Lega raised outside funding or how many people it employed.
What happens next
BARBRI said it would deliver Lega's training model at scale to law students, lawyers, law firms and legal organisations around the world. The planned programmes put practitioners and students in the same rooms to work through realistic legal problems with AI tools, rather than relying only on recorded courses.
The deal reflects demand from law schools and firms for staff who can use generative AI in daily legal work. BARBRI already sells AI courses alongside its bar preparation business, and the Lega team gives it an in-house group that has run live AI sessions for large firms.
