August announced the immediate availability of its self-serve platform and August Academy, a comprehensive library of over 100 video tutorials and lessons designed to help lawyers adopt and master AI in their practice.
For the first time, solo attorneys and small to midsize firms can access the same capabilities as large law firms without the traditional barriers of lengthy implementations, expensive training programs, or dedicated IT staff.
“Most legal AI has been built for BigLaw. That means the solo practitioner in Anchorage or the three-partner firm in Austin gets left behind,” said Thomas Bueler-Faudree, co-founder of August. “I worked for an attorney in Alaska at a small firm where a tool like this would have been invaluable, but the barriers to entry were impossibly high. We built August to change that. Any lawyer can sign up right now and start getting work done immediately, with August Academy there to help them learn as they go.”
August Academy provides tutorials and practical examples to help lawyers understand not just how to use AI, but when and why to apply it. Lessons can be filtered by practice area, jurisdiction, use case, role, and AI comfort level to help lawyers quickly find guidance most relevant to their day-to-day matters. The library is continuously updated with new content as August adds capabilities and as the legal AI landscape evolves.
“August has become a really valuable partner in how I work,” said Patricia Wolfe, Shareholder at Hunt Ortmann Attorneys at Law. “The platform quickly and easily handles the tedious parts of discovery work, like drafting discovery requests, summarising depositions, and running deposition transcript searches for key terms, so that I can focus on the high-level strategic decisions that actually require legal expertise. I’m excited for other attorneys to try this powerful tool.”
