With the rapid advances of AI technologies and their applications, it is inevitable AI would play a big role in legal practices. While legal professionals wish to enlist AI's help, not everyone has the required skills or resources to create their own AI solutions. In this talk, Michelle will use the development of Cognitive AI Assistants as an example to describe the challenges, highlight the state-of-the-art advances, and practical use cases that Cognitive AI Assistants could aid legal professionals. Moreover, Michelle will highlight how legal professionals can set up, customize, launch, and manage their own custom Cognitive AI Assistant with no coding or no technical skills required, a step toward democratizing AI for legal professionals.