
JusticeBench
Explore What’s Being Built in Justice AI
Discover AI projects across the access to justice landscape, understand where they fit in the justice journey, and find data and evaluation tools to know if they work. JusticeBench is the discovery layer of the Legal Help Commons.
How to Use JusticeBench
JusticeBench is an R&D platform for legal teams, technologists, researchers, and community members working on AI to advance access to justice. Explore the landscape here — then head to the Legal Help Commons for implementation playbooks, working groups, and shared tools when you’re ready to build.
Projects
Explore prototypes, pilots, and proposals others are building to find inspiration, collaborators, or models.
Tasks
Explore specific use cases where AI can help improve access to justice. Scope what to work on — and where you fit in.
Data & Eval
Share or use data to train, evaluate, and improve legal AI projects and performance standards.
Guides
Step-by-step playbooks and templates for planning, evaluating, and rolling out AI in justice institutions.
New to Access to Justice?
Learn how legal problems play out in people’s lives, the 7 stages of a justice journey, and how service providers work to help.
Explore the A2J domain →AI Task Taxonomy
30+ specific tasks where AI can improve legal help — from document explanation to intake triage to case management. Organized by workflow stage.
View all tasks →Projects
What kinds of AI projects are already in the works to advance access to justice? Filter by issue area or project status to find what’s relevant to your work.
Housing Legal Services
Housing legal services help people navigate landlord-tenant conflicts, respond to eviction lawsuits, fix unsafe conditions, get utility access, deal with possible foreclosures, and maintain stable housing through advice, filings, and negotiation.

Tenant First Aid
An AI-powered chatbot for Oregon renters facing eviction or landlord disputes. Developed by Code PDX and Qiu Qiu Law, it helps tenants understand their rights and take action.

LeaseChat
LeaseChat is a free tool that analyzes residential leases, answers questions with references to the document and local law, and drafts landlord communications.

JusticeBot
An AI-powered chatbot from the University of Montreal that helps the public in Quebec understand landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, using trusted legal information.

Motion to Set Aside Copilot
A self-help tool that walks unrepresented tenants through the entire Motion to Set Aside process after a default eviction judgment: from intake and eligibility screening, through AI-guided declaration drafting and court-ready document generation, to filing logistics and hearing preparation.

Reasonable Accommodation Demand Letter Generator
A voice-enabled AI agent ("Sofia") interviews tenants with disabilities by phone in English or Spanish, collects the facts needed for a Fair Housing Act reasonable accommodation demand letter, and generates a draft for attorney review: replacing a multi-step, multi-interview workflow with a single structured phone call.

Jury Instructions Copilot for California Tenants
An AI copilot that helps tenants and legal aid teams generate, review, and finalize court-compliant jury instructions and trial documents for eviction cases in California.

Lease Data Extractor with AI
A research prototype to extract structured data from images of Tenancy Agreements (typed, neat, and sloppy) using AI

Eviction Settlement Reviewer
A language-accessible AI assistant that reviews proposed eviction settlements to flag burdensome terms, explain how the settlement can play out, and support informed, strategic decision-making.

Depositron
An AI-powered platform that generates legally grounded, evidence-backed demand letters to help New York City tenants recover illegally withheld rental deposits quickly and without costly legal intervention.

Rentervention
A free, confidential help pathway for Chicago renters that uses an online assistant (“Renny”) to explain rights, draft landlord letters, connect to brief legal advice, and route tenants to appropriate community resources.

Roxanne the Repair Bot
Roxanne is a chatbot that provides NYC tenants with general guidance on how to get housing repairs, based on trusted information from Housing Court Answers.

Eviction Notice Defect Detector
A tool that lets legal aid staff upload a 3-day eviction notice, automatically flags procedural and substantive defects under California law, and generates a draft Eviction Answer response form: reducing a 30-minute manual review to under five minutes.

Lease Analyzer for Tenants
An AI-powered tool that helps tenants review residential leases before signing—spotting harmful or unenforceable clauses, translating legalese, and helping them make informed choices.
Cross-Issue Services
Cross-issue services help people who are not yet slotted into a specific legal issue track. These services help people spot their legal needs, triage them to the right services, get quick initial information and options, and give clear next steps so a person can move forward on their justice journey.

Hear Me Out
A free, AI-assisted platform that helps people in Australia describe their experience and get tailored guidance on where and how to lodge complaints, starting with NSW and Federal bodies and expanding to Victoria.

Courtroom5 AI-Assisted Legal Documents
A platform that helps self-represented litigants manage civil cases and generate first-pass filings through an AI-guided, rules-aware document workflow, paired with training, community support, and optional limited-scope lawyer review.

MLAGPT Self-Hosted AI Platform
Maryland Legal Aid built a secure, self-hosted AI chat platform on LibreChat so its 390+ staff across Maryland can use generative AI for legal work without compromising client confidentiality.

Caddy Q&A copilot
Caddy is an AI co-pilot developed by Citizens Advice in England to support legal advisers, helping them deliver faster, supervised answers with trusted information.

CaseStrainer
An open-source tool to verify whether U.S. legal case citations are real or fabricated—helping safeguard against AI hallucinations.

Juris Legal Research Chatbot
An AI chatbot that centralizes Lone Star Legal Aid’s most relevant legal resources, enabling faster, more consistent, and more cost-effective research for attorneys, paralegals, and legal staff.

Sandi
A bilingual (English/Spanish) digital assistant on the Miami-Dade Courts website that guides visitors to court information and Family Division self-help resources, with optional voice input and live paralegal handoff.

Beagle+
Beagle+ is an AI-powered legal information assistant developed for British Columbia that uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to deliver accurate, jurisdiction-specific legal guidance.

A2J ImageGen: Visualizing Legal Documents with AI
An AI prototype to help transform complex court forms, fliers, and training materials from text into visual-first, well-designed materials for litigants

LIA
An AI-powered virtual legal assistant from LANC that helps North Carolinians navigate common civil legal problems with plain-language, bilingual guidance and referrals.

Navi community support chatbot
An AI-powered chatbot that helps community members identify legal issues, find appropriate referrals, and access self-help resources in plain language.

Project LACI
Project LACI (Legal Aid Content Intelligence) helps organizations maintain content that has legal information, including generative AI RAG materials, keeping them up to date with changes to the law.

Access Engine
A national, AI-powered question-and-answer platform that routes public legal questions to verified, jurisdiction-specific knowledge bases maintained by legal aid and court partners.

VLAS Voice Intake AI Line
A voice-first AI intake system for Virginia Legal Aid Society that conducts phone-based eligibility screening and full intake interviews, runs automatic conflict checks via LegalServer API, and surfaces completed intake summaries for paralegal review: aimed at replacing a two-hour average queue time with immediate AI-answered calls across a statewide toll-free line handling 18,000 calls per year.
Reentry Services
Reentry legal services help people who have been involved with the criminal justice system to clear records, restore rights, and reconnect to housing, work, and benefits.

Fines & Fees Data Researcher
An AI-powered agent that helps legal aid teams retrieve and organize a person's fines and fee data from across Oklahoma court dockets, to produce reports for the teams as they work on getting criminal justice debt waived.

Expungement Workflow AI
An AI- and automation-powered workflow from Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands for reentry legal teams, to analyze criminal records, flag eligible charges, and generate expungement petitions—freeing up legal staff time and dramatically increasing the number of people served.

Expungement Eligibility Screener
An attorney-facing web tool that takes in criminal case details, applies Oklahoma's expungement statutes through a deterministic rules engine, and returns a per-charge eligibility determination with transparent reasoning: replacing hours of manual statutory analysis with a structured input form and instant results.
Family Legal Services
Family legal services help people resolve divorce and separation issues, custody and parenting plans, child and spousal support, adoption, paternity and safety and domestic abuse.

CLEO's Guided Pathways Legal Narrative Assistant
CLEO’s Guided Pathways Legal Narrative Assistant is a prototype being researched, aiming to help people tell their legal story clearly and effectively

Family Court Next Steps Navigator
A personalized, web-based navigator that tells family law litigants exactly what to do next—step by step, document by document in a local court case—so they can move their case forward without confusion.

Nevada Family Court chatbot
An AI-supported, multilingual assistant on Nevada’s court self-help site that provides information and guided steps for common family-court processes, grounded in court-approved materials.

JES Ask AI
A closed-domain AI assistant that answers family-law questions using only legally reviewed content from FamilyLawInBC.ca, paired with live human help during peak hours.
Intake and Referrals Services
Intake and referral services triage people with legal problems to spot legal needs fast, capture key facts, and route people to the right help provider with warm handoffs and clear next steps.

Chicago Voice AI Intake
A commercial voice-powered AI intake assistant that handled family law calls over a three-week pilot at Legal Aid Chicago, triaging callers, flagging domestic violence priority cases, and reducing out-of-priority screening outcomes.

Fetch legal issue classifer
FETCH is a lightweight, ensemble legal-issue classifier that helps intake systems classify a user's legal issue and route them to the right service, faster and at lower cost than a single large model.

Housing Intake Voice AI Line
A bilingual AI phone agent that conducts the full legal aid intake interview (100+ questions across prescreen and detailed intake), checks eligibility in real time, triggers human conflict review, and auto-populates LegalServer case management forms as the caller speaks: replacing hold times and manual data entry with immediate, 24/7 access.

Justice Connect Legal-Problem Classifier
An AI model—developed by Justice Connect with the University of Melbourne—that classifies people’s free-text descriptions of problems into legal issue categories, now available under a no-cost licence to eligible Australian not-for-profits.

Automated Intake Data Extractor
LegalServer's Automated Intake Mode allows organizations to upload scanned or digital documents and automatically extract structured intake data into their case management system.

Missouri Tenant Help Intake Screener
A hybrid rule-based and LLM-powered intake screener developed for Missouri Tenant Help to help determine legal aid eligibility more efficiently and consistently.
Work and Employment Legal Services
Work and employment legal services help workers to enforce wage, safety, and anti-discrimination rights, and also deal with harassment or problems that arise on the job.

Ask Thurgood
An AI-driven intake and screening system for employment-law practices that automates most first-contact triage, produces structured applicant casefiles, and supports firms with human-reviewed quality control and automated client communications.

Reclamo AI
A multilingual, mobile-first AI assistant that helps workers in New York understand their wage rights, spot wage theft, and connect to legal aid.
Consumer Legal Services
Consumer legal services help people with money and financial problems, to do things like responding to a debt collection lawsuit, dealing with wage or bank garnishments, stopping unfair collections, correct credit errors, and recover from scams or abusive lending.
Education Legal Services
Education legal services help students and their families by resolving special education, discipline, and enrollment issues through advocacy, hearings, and services coordination.
Legal Org Ops
Admin teams of legal organizations run operations like conflict checks, scheduling, compliance, knowledge management, strategy, and other backend operations so legal teams can deliver excellent, sustainable client services.

Staff Compass knowledge management system
Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino (LASSB) is piloting “Staff Compass” — a SweetProcess-powered internal knowledge hub that unites policies, procedures, and training for every staff member, no matter where they work.

LSLAsks
A chatbot prototype from Lone Star Legal Aid to provide staff with centralized, searchable access to internal policies, benefits information, and workplace procedures.
Domestic Violence Legal Services
Services for people experiencing domestic violence or abuse, including protection orders, enforcement, safety planning, reporting, and related legal supports.

Malawi Legal Chatbot
A WhatsApp chatbot that gives first responders vetted legal information and connects at-risk women and girls to volunteer lawyers for free support.

Maria
A free, privacy-preserving AI chatbot from Honduras’ State Secretariat for Security (with UNDP/Infosegura and USAID support) that helps women, girls, and adolescents identify gender-based violence, understand options, and connect to appropriate services, including Linea 114.

Sophia Chat
A confidential, 24/7 AI chatbot from Swiss NGO Spring ACT that provides expert-reviewed information on domestic violence, safety planning, legal options, and connections to local services—available anonymously worldwide in 25+ languages.

Violetta
A Spanish-language, supervised-ML WhatsApp chatbot that helps users name and understand relationship violence, get tailored guidance, and connect anonymously to human support (including the “Purple Line”) and legal resources in Mexico.

Malawi Lawyer's Assistant
A lawyer-supported WhatsApp tool that turns survivor narratives (in local languages) into draft, legally compliant affidavits to accelerate protection-order applications.

AinoAid
An EU-funded chatbot that offers victims and frontline professionals fast, privacy-preserving guidance on domestic/partner violence, risk awareness, and connections to services—while collecting anonymized signals to improve institutional response.
Immigration Services
Immigration legal services guide people through relief screenings, applications, and court processes to secure lawful status and safety.
Public Benefits Legal Services
Public benefits legal services help people access food, cash, health, and disability benefits, including by screening eligibility, assembling applications, and appealing denials.
Public Defenders
Public defenders defend people accused of crimes with early investigation, motions, mitigation, and post-conviction advocacy.

Brief Bank
An AI-assisted brief and motion drafting tool that lets New Jersey public defenders search prior filings, surface relevant law, and assemble first-pass drafts tailored to case facts.

Redo.io
Redo.io is an open-source data and analytics platform that processes roughly 95,000 California prison-sentence records to surface potential sentencing disparities and produce court-ready statistical evidence.
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Data & Evaluation
Datasets, benchmarks, evaluation protocols, taxonomies, and leaderboards for building and testing legal AI. Use these to train models, measure performance, and establish quality standards.
📊 Test & Evaluate
Benchmarks, eval Q&A, and test suites for scoring model performance

LegalBench benchmark tasks
Test & EvaluateA collaboratively built suite of 160+ legal tasks that measure legal reasoning across statutes, cases, contracts, and procedures—crafted by legal experts and useful to test the performance of models and solutions.

Beagle+ Legal Chatbot Testing Dataset
Test & EvaluateA curated, labeled dataset of 42 real-world legal question-answers used to evaluate the safety and helpfulness of AI-generated answers during the development of Beagle+, a legal information chatbot for British Columbia.

OpenAI GDPval test on lawyer tasks
Test & EvaluateA short set of evaluation + dataset resources from OpenAI that tests AI models on economically valuable, job-specific tasks—including a “Professional: Lawyers” track with realistic legal work artifacts and human grading.

PRBench
Test & EvaluatePRBench is a public, expert-authored Law and Finance benchmark that evaluates models on open-ended professional tasks using detailed, weighted rubrics (10–30 criteria per task) and reports fine-grained performance, including on a designated “Hard” subset.
đź”§ Build & Train
Labeled data, training corpora, and synthetic queries for building tools

LIST-Labeled Legal Q Set (L3Q)
Build & TrainL3Q is a synthetic dataset of 3,300+ legal help questions and search prompts, labeled with LIST issue codes, jurisdiction/entity tags, and question sophistication, available in Airtable from Legal Design Lab.

Common Legal Help Questions
Build & TrainA curated, synthetic dataset of common civil legal questions asked by the public—tagged by legal issue and sensitivity—to support research, product testing, and development of legal help technologies.

Learned Hands: Labeled Dataset of Legal Issues in Reddit problem stories
Build & TrainA crowdsourced, expert-reviewed dataset of legal issue labels on real-world problem narratives, created to support machine learning and research on legal needs and access to justice.

Legal Help Synthetic Query Pack - LHSQ115
Build & TrainA set of 115 fully synthetic legal-help queries drafted from patterns observed in 2025 online legal help questions from members of the US public, labeled with LIST issue codes, language, and key metadata for safe sharing and evaluation.
🗂️ Organize & Standardize
Taxonomies, reference data, and classification standards

US Jurisdiction List
Organize & StandardizeThis spreadsheet has all US states, counties, and territories along with standardized FIPS codes for each.

LIST taxonomy of legal issues
Organize & StandardizeA maintained taxonomy of 1,100+ legal issues (life-problem scenarios), maintained by Stanford Legal Design Lab. Each legal issue has a stable ID code, parent/child relations, and plain-language explanations, designed to standardize labeling and retrieval across civic and legal tech.

Federal Poverty Scale
Organize & StandardizeAn annually updated, machine-readable JSON file of U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines with a Python API and REST endpoints: the shared reference data that every legal aid intake system needs for income eligibility screening.
🏆 Compare
Leaderboards and model comparison tools
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Guides
How can you create an AI plan for your justice organization, and what's the best way to implement new AI developments? Explore our guides for justice institution leaders.

Legal Aid AI Implementation guide
A guide from A2J Tech and LSNTAP on how to implement AI responsibly in a legal aid group.

AI For Legal Aid: a Step-By-Step Guide
A brief gameplan to help legal aid leaders identify opportunities, choose the right tools and partners, and launch a new AI solution.

Innovating for Access: AI-Enhanced Triage & Intake for Legal Services Organizations
The paper describes results of 2025 interviews with legal professionals and technologists to find out how organizations are actually using AI in their triage and intake systems. It maps what's being built, what's working, and what organizations need to have in place before they start.

ABA Ethics formal opinion 512 on GenAI
Guidance from the American Bar Association on how lawyers can responsibly adopt AI tools while meeting professional conduct obligations.

AI Readiness for State Courts
A practical NCSC guide that helps state and local courts assess and improve their AI readiness. It combines a clear maturity model (Foundations → Implementation → Post-project feedback), lifecycle guidance, and an interactive self-assessment to plan, govern, and evaluate AI responsibly.

AI Risk Management Framework for Legal Teams
A practical, step-by-step framework from Duke RAILS to help legal teams identify, govern, and mitigate AI-related risks while supporting responsible innovation.

Cal. State Bar Practical Guide for use of AI
Ethical framework from the California State Bar guiding lawyers through the responsible use of generative AI in legal practice.

LIA chatbot evaluation by Duke Law
A report of an independent audit of the LIA chatbot in North Carolina by Duke Law researchers, that documents an evaluation protocol, usage results, issues to address, and recommendations for improvement.

LSC's AI Peer Learning Labs
An online hub & regular online sessions where civil legal aid programs share lessons, resources, and best practices for using AI responsibly in legal services.

NCSC Guides for Implementing AI in Courts
Guidance from the National Center for State Courts and partners on adopting AI in court operations responsibly, with clear policies, oversight, and safeguards.

Regulating AI in the Delivery of Consumer-Facing Legal Services
IAALS' guide to a phased, innovation-friendly approach to regulating AI tools that deliver legal information and services directly to the public.
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