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.

Legal Help Commons

JusticeBench shows you what’s possible. The Legal Help Commons shows you how to do it, with implementation playbooks, reference architectures, and working groups you can join today.

AI Projects around this Legal Issue

Hear Me Out
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

Litigant Portal
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Litigant Portal

A guided legal navigation platform for litigants that courts can deploy under their own name.

Beagle+
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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.

Legal Aid Plugin
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Legal Aid Plugin

A set of fifteen pre-built AI workflows for legal aid back-office tasks, configured once to the office's funders, jurisdictions, and supervision rules.

Illinois Court Help
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Illinois Court Help

A free service of the Supreme Court of Illinois where trained court guides answer procedural questions by phone, text, email, and chatbot.

SheriaPlex AI Legal Chatbot
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SheriaPlex AI Legal Chatbot

An AI chatbot that gives general legal information on Kenyan law in English and Kiswahili.

A2J ImageGen: Visualizing Legal Documents with AI
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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
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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.

CourtListener MCP
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CourtListener MCP

A connector that lets users access Free Law Project's CourtListener court case database directly from inside Claude.

Navi community support chatbot
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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.

Kenya Judiciary National Transcription Center
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Kenya Judiciary National Transcription Center

An AI tool that transcribes Kenya's digitally recorded court proceedings overnight, with people correcting the transcripts the next day.

Project LACI
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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
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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.

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