R. Amani Smathers

R. Amani Smathers is a legal solutions professional at Chapman & Cutler with experience helping legal teams find better and faster ways to accomplish their legal work. She is a proponent of continuous improvement and loves working with colleagues and clients who push beyond the status quo. Amani has built her career within the legal technology and practice innovation groups at three Am Law 100 and 200 law firms: Seyfarth Shaw, Davis Wright Tremaine, and Chapman and Cutler.

In helping her firms adopt modern technology (including AI), Amani has the pleasure of working with multidisciplinary teams that include lawyers, in-house legal teams, process specialists, designers, and software developers. Her pro bono work includes creating document automation apps used by legal aid staff and pro bono attorneys.

Additionally, Amani serves as an adjunct instructor with the Center for Law, Technology & Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law, where she teaches law students about modern legal service delivery models.