Last week, the 5 student teams in Autumn Quarter’s AI for Legal Help made their final presentations, about if and how generative AI could assist legal aid, court & bar associations in providing legal help to the public.
The class’s 5 student groups have been working over the 9-week quarter with partners including the American Bar Association, Legal Aid Society of San Bernardino, Neighborhood Legal Services of LA, and LA Superior Court Help Center. The partners came to the class with some ideas, and the student teams worked with them to scope & prototype new AI agents to do legal tasks, including:
- Demand letters for reasonable accommodations
- Motions to set aside to stop an impending eviction/forcible set-out
- Triaging court litigants to direct them to appropriate services
- Analyzing eviction litigants’ case details to spot defenses
- Improving lawyers’ responses to online brief advice clinic users’ questions
The AI agents are still in early stages. We’ll be continuing refinement, testing, and pilot-planning next quarter.