Public defenders view AI as most useful for evidence investigation but limited in courtroom work and strategy, with adoption blocked by costs, confidentiality risks, and norms, requiring human oversight and open development.
LePaRD: A large-scale dataset of judicial citations to precedent
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NJ BriefBank is a domain-adapted legal retrieval tool for public defenders that improves on standard benchmarks by incorporating legal reasoning, domain data, and synthetic examples, with a new released taxonomy and annotated evaluation dataset.
Further pre-training ModernBERT on US court opinions improves results on legal datasets compared to the base model, with gains similar to early BERT domain adaptation work.
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How Can AI Augment Access to Justice? Public Defenders' Perspectives on AI Adoption
Public defenders view AI as most useful for evidence investigation but limited in courtroom work and strategy, with adoption blocked by costs, confidentiality risks, and norms, requiring human oversight and open development.