Four Suffolk Law Faculty Named Top 50 Innovators

National Law Review recognition adds to Suffolk Law's innovative run
National Law Review Top 50 winners
Top 50 innovators (clockwise from top left): Professor Dyane O'Leary, Adjunct Professor Thomas G. Martin, Professor Gabe Teninbaum, Dean Andrew Perlman

National Law Review has named four Suffolk University Law School faculty members to its list of the “Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia.” The honorees are Dean Andrew Perlman, Professor Dyane O'Leary, Professor Gabe Teninbaum, and Adjunct Professor Thomas G. Martin.

The national list, published Aug. 24, 2026, recognizes educators, administrators, researchers, and academic leaders shaping the future of legal education.

Suffolk Law's four honorees were recognized for contributions including embedding generative AI training into the school's mandatory first-year curriculum; bringing Suffolk's legal innovation and technology program to national prominence; developing one of the field's first structured courses for teaching applied legal AI; and bridging legal writing instruction with technology training and the delivery of legal services. Full coverage for each of the four honorees is available through National Law Review’s top 50 list.

The selection committee included University of Michigan Law School Dean Neel Sukhatme, CaseText co-founder and Legal Information Institute Innovation Fellow Pablo Arredondo, and LawSites founder and journalist Robert Ambrogi.

Honors for the Innovation Ecosystem

The honors add to a run of recognition for Suffolk Law's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Center, which anchors the school's legal innovation and tech ecosystem; programs include the LIT Lab, the LIT Concentration, a STEM-designated LLM in Legal Innovation & Technology, the LIT Clinic, and the Accelerator to Practice Program.

The LIT Lab, which has received $3 million in funding since 2017 (including grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the State Justice Initiative), builds smart, open-source, mobile court-form tools used by roughly 37,000 people a year, generating about 20,000 court-ready documents annually.

The Lab’s tools are now deployed in more than 10 states, including engagements with the Alaska Court System, Legal Services Vermont, the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice, and Michigan Legal Help.

Suffolk Law led National Jurist's 2025 list of the 12 most innovative law school programs in the country and has placed No. 1 or No. 2 in legal technology in each of the publication's last three numbered rankings. Bloomberg Law has also named Suffolk a Top 12 Innovator.