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.

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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.

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Learn how legal problems play out in people’s lives, the 7 stages of a justice journey, and how service providers work to help.

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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.

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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.

13 projects
PilotsTenant First Aid

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.

Legal Q&A
PilotsLeaseChat

LeaseChat

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

Document ExplainerIssue-SpottingLegal Q&A
PilotsJusticeBot

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.

Legal Q&A
PrototypesMotion to Set Aside Copilot

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.

Expert Document Drafter
PrototypesReasonable Accommodation Demand Letter Generator

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.

Standard Document Filler
PrototypesJury Instructions Copilot for California Tenants

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.

Expert Document Drafter
PrototypesLease Data Extractor with AI

Lease Data Extractor with AI

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

OCR/Data Extractor
ProposalsEviction Settlement Reviewer

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.

Contract Reviewer
PilotsDepositron

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.

Expert Document Drafter
PilotsRentervention

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.

Legal Q&AStandard Document FillerReferral Routing
PilotsRoxanne the Repair Bot

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.

Legal Q&A
PrototypesEviction Notice Defect Detector

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.

Document Issue-Spotter
ProposalsLease Analyzer for Tenants

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.

Contract Reviewer

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.

14 projects
PilotsHear Me Out

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.

Referral RoutingIssue-SpottingAction Plan
PilotsCourtroom5 AI-Assisted Legal Documents

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.

Expert Document DrafterLegal ResearcherDocument Explainer
PilotsMLAGPT Self-Hosted AI Platform

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.

PilotsCaddy Q&A copilot

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.

Q+A Supporter
PrototypesCaseStrainer

CaseStrainer

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

Legal Researcher
PrototypesJuris Legal Research Chatbot

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.

Legal Researcher
PilotsSandi

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.

Referral RoutingForm Selection
PilotsBeagle+

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 Q&A
PrototypesA2J ImageGen: Visualizing Legal Documents with AI

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

Media Creator
PilotsLIA

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.

Legal Q&A
ProposalsNavi community support chatbot

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.

Legal Q&AReferral Routing
PilotsProject LACI

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.

Law Watcher
PrototypesAccess Engine

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.

PilotsVLAS Voice Intake AI Line

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.

Intake Interviewing

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.

6 projects
PilotsChicago Voice AI Intake

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.

Intake Interviewing
PilotsFetch legal issue classifer

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.

Issue-Spotting
PrototypesHousing Intake Voice AI Line

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.

Intake Interviewing
PilotsJustice Connect Legal-Problem Classifier

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.

Issue-Spotting
PrototypesAutomated Intake Data Extractor

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.

OCR/Data Extractor
PilotsMissouri Tenant Help Intake Screener

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.

Referral RoutingIntake Interviewing

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.

1 project

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.

1 project

Domestic Violence Legal Services

Services for people experiencing domestic violence or abuse, including protection orders, enforcement, safety planning, reporting, and related legal supports.

6 projects
PrototypesMalawi Legal Chatbot

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.

Q+A Supporter
PilotsMaria

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.

Legal Q&A
PilotsSophia Chat

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.

Legal Q&AAction Plan
PilotsVioletta

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.

Legal Q&AAction Plan
PrototypesMalawi Lawyer's Assistant

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.

Narrative Drafter
PilotsAinoAid

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.

Legal Q&A

Immigration Services

Immigration legal services guide people through relief screenings, applications, and court processes to secure lawful status and safety.

1 project

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Please share guide proposals and open-source materials with us at this form.