Cubby Launches “Cubby for Professors,” an AI Teaching Assistant for Law School Faculty at 20-Plus Universities
Cubby launched Cubby for Professors, an AI teaching assistant for law faculty, with more than 20 universities including Emory and Wake Forest joining.
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Cubby, a New York-based legal education company, announced on September 3, 2026 the launch of “Cubby for Professors,” a new AI teaching assistant tool for law school faculty, alongside a rebuilt version of its existing student study platform, according to a company press release distributed via GlobeNewswire. More than 20 universities are bringing Cubby into their classrooms this fall, the company said, naming Emory University School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, the University of Texas School of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Quinnipiac University School of Law as examples; the release did not publish the complete list of participating schools.
Cubby was founded in 2024 by Truman Sacks and originally launched its “Cubby Law” student product nationwide on August 25, 2025, backed by 2.75 million dollars in seed funding from investors including Eighty-Seven Capital’s Sam Hinkie, Ludlow Ventures’ Jonathon Triest, Discord co-founder Eros Resmini’s The Mini Fund, and Positive Sum’s Patrick O’Shaughnessy, according to the original launch release and independent reporting by Fast Company. The company said Cubby served nearly 2,000 students across more than 200 American law schools in its first full academic year.
What Cubby for Professors does
According to Cubby’s announcement, the new tool gives each professor “a teaching assistant built for their course” that drafts practice questions and fact patterns matching the professor’s own style, grades student work against the professor’s rubric, and delivers feedback in the professor’s voice. The company said nothing generated by the tool reaches students until the professor reviews and approves it, and that the platform includes live course analytics showing student performance broken down by topic, by assessment and by individual student. Cubby said professors’ materials are never shared with other faculty or institutions and are never used to train the underlying AI models; professors can also exclude past exams from student access.
Cubby founder and CEO Truman Sacks said in the announcement: “Legal education runs on a single data point… Cubby extends a professor’s expertise into one-on-one support for every student in the room, and the professor stays in charge of every word.” Kamina Pinder, Associate Dean at Emory University School of Law, who is bringing Cubby into her first-year Contracts course this fall, was also quoted saying the tool had changed her earlier reluctance to encourage AI use among students.
The company said fall 2026 pilot slots for Cubby for Professors are now full, with a waitlist open for spring 2027 at its professor.cubby.law website. As of publication, no independent news outlet had separately reported on the September 3 announcement; the facts above are drawn from Cubby’s own press release, a common pattern for early-stage education technology launches, and should be read as the company’s account of its own product.
Origins and prior results
Cubby’s original student platform launched in August 2025, offering a personalized study plan, an interactive library of professor-annotated case briefs, and an exam simulator with instant, professor-style grading, built on a proprietary AI model the company said was trained on real law school exams and case briefs. Fast Company’s independent reporting on the 2025 launch found that in a spring 2025 pilot, more than 1,300 students applied for early access, while roughly 100 paying students actually used the product; individual students cited in that reporting, including Liam Willis at SMU and Mia Bartschi at UC Law San Francisco, reported GPA gains ranging from roughly 0.2 to more than half a point after using the tool. Cubby’s own figures describe an average GPA gain range of 0.25 to 0.55 points across its early-access pilot, without specifying how many students that average covers.
Cubby’s approach fits into a wider trend of universities adopting AI teaching and tutoring tools across disciplines. Elsewhere, research from Stanford’s SCALE Initiative has cautioned that fully automated AI tutoring lacks the evidence base built up by human-led tutoring, even as AI-assisted models that keep a human tutor in the loop show measurable gains. Separately, surveys have found AI use among US higher-education students has reached a tipping point, with adoption climbing across both students and faculty.
| Detail | Figure |
|---|---|
| Announcement date | September 3, 2026 |
| Universities using Cubby this fall | More than 20 (5 named) |
| Students served, first academic year | ~2,000 |
| Law schools served, first academic year | 200+ |
| Original launch date | August 25, 2025 |
| Seed funding raised | $2.75 million |
| Spring 2025 pilot applicants | 1,300+ |
| Spring 2025 pilot paying users (Fast Company reporting) | ~100 |
| Reported GPA gain range (company figure) | 0.25 to 0.55 points |
About Cubby
Cubby is a legal education company based in New York, founded in 2024 by Truman Sacks, a two-time founder who previously sold his company Scout to StockX in 2021, according to the company’s original 2025 launch announcement and Fast Company’s reporting. The company began as a general-purpose research and document-summarization tool before its team pivoted to focus specifically on law students after observing that law students had become its core user base. Cubby launched its first product, “Cubby Law,” nationwide in August 2025, priced at 30 dollars a month for students, and says it grew to serve close to 2,000 students across more than 200 American law schools within its first academic year. The September 2026 launch of Cubby for Professors extends the company’s product from a student-facing study tool into a faculty-facing classroom tool, with named faculty advisors at law schools including Brooklyn Law, Quinnipiac Law, Emory Law and Texas Law, according to the company’s website.
Sources: GlobeNewswire (Cubby NYC, Inc.); Fast Company; Law.com
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