A 0.6B parameter model built in two stages: knowledge distillation from a 30B Thinking teacher to establish a structured reasoning backbone, then supervised fine-tuning on legal instruction data. 50x compression. Under 500MB quantized. Runs on a phone. The training order is the thesis: teach the model how to reason first (distillation from Thinking teacher), then teach it what to reason about (legal SFT). The Thinking teacher's extended deliberation traces transfer deeper reasoning structure than an Instruct teacher — critical when the student has only 0.6B parameters to work with. Qwen3-0.6B distilled from Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 — a Mixture-of-Experts model with 30B total parameters…


