Episode 116: From Legalweek to Masters AI, Kevin Vermeulen on the Future of Legal Education Nobody Is Building Yet

Legal education is broken. AI just made that impossible to ignore. Kevin Vermeulen spent 22 years at ALM building Legalweek into the Super Bowl of legal tech. Then he walked away to build something the industry has never had: a real AI learning ecosystem built specifically for legal professionals. In this conversation Cat Casey sits down with the man behind the magic to find out what it takes to build the legal industry's biggest stage, why he left to build something even bigger, and what legal education has been getting wrong long before AI showed up to expose it. They get into what lawyers actually need to learn about AI versus what they are being sold, why most legal AI training programs miss the point entirely, what a real certification program for legal professionals looks like, and what Kevin is most excited and most clear-eyed about as Masters AI builds out its global platform. This is not a conversation about a conference. It is a conversation about whether the legal industry is serious about actually learning to use AI, or just performing like it is. Kevin Vermeulen is CEO of Masters AI and Masters Legal AI, the legal industry's first global AI learning ecosystem offering certifications, events, and hands-on training for lawyers, legal ops leaders, in-house counsel, and eDiscovery professionals.