About

Legal Intelligence,
Designed by Experts

At Norm Ai, more than 40 attorneys from top firms and law schools were trained to encode legal and regulatory workflows and knowledge into AI agents.

This allows us to combine deep legal expertise with the scale and precision of our technology platform.

Norm Law has uniquely vertically integrated Legal AI and expert attorneys

A Note from Norm Ai's Founder & CEO

The future of Legal AI & Law isn’t theoretical

To truly transform the delivery of legal services, lawyers and AI need to be fully-integrated from the ground up and from day one. Norm Law is uniquely positioned at the intersection of AI and trusted expert attorneys. We believe this technology platform and people approach will revolutionize premium legal services, delivering more efficient and effective outcomes for the world’s most sophisticated institutions.

John Nay
CEO of Norm Ai

Our Chairman, Partner

Mike Schmidtberger

Head of Investment Funds and Regulatory

Mike Schmidtberger is the Chairman of Norm Law, Partner, and Head of Investment Funds and Regulatory. Prior to joining Norm Law, Mike was Chair of the Executive Committee at Sidley Austin LLP. He served on the Executive Committee from 2002-2025, chairing the committee starting in 2018. He also served on the firm’s Management Committee from 2008-2025. Mike’s tenure at the firm also included serving as the Managing Partner of the New York office from September 2011 through December 2017, and serving as a global co-leader of the Investment Funds practice.

Mike’s principal areas of practice are securities and futures-related funds and corporate transactions, including related regulatory matters. He advises and represents clients in domestic and international offerings of hedge funds, hybrid funds, fund of funds, public and private commodity pools, and structured derivative and principal-protected transactions.


Mike has been ranked by Chambers Global in Hedge Funds as a Band 1 lawyer from 2013–2018 and as an Eminent Practitioner from 2019–2025. He was recognized by Chambers USA as a Band 1 lawyer in the same category from 2010–2017 and as an Eminent Practitioner 2018–2025.

Norm Ai Founder

John Nay

Founder & CEO of Norm Ai

John Nay is the Founder and CEO of Norm Ai, the Legal & Compliance AI company. He has more than a decade of research experience at the intersection of AI and law, most recently at Stanford. As a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, he conducted AI research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He was then a Postdoc at NYU and Affiliate at Harvard. As an Adjunct Professor, John created the first AI course at the NYU School of Law. He has published research articles on AI and AI policy in leading technical journals and law reviews.

John was also the founding CEO of Brooklyn Artificial Intelligence, Inc., an AI-powered investment software platform with an SEC Registered Investment Adviser subsidiary that manages billions of dollars. Brooklyn was recently acquired by TIAA Nuveen, a global asset manager with $1.3 trillion in assets under management.

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