Building a 'Personal Data' App

This article recounts the author’s experience of building a legal expert app using the Neota Logic platform and shares reflections on that process. In particular, it describes how the process of building the app involves a different kind of engagement with legal rules and outlines the benefits of such engagement for lawyers. It offers reflections on how the process of building an app delivers insights relevant to the intersection of legal practice and legal theory, speculates about the role that machine learning might play in the design of legal expertise automation apps and touches on the educational value of building a legal expert app.