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Alice: Automatic reimbursement for pre-tax eligible expenses
Clear My Record: Service by Code for America for quickly and easily applying to have criminal records cleared in California. Historically related to marijuana expungements. Similar: https://www.mdexpungement.com/
Courtroom5: SRL-targeted legal toolbox
Court Services Online (BC)
CrowdJustice: Crowdfunding for legal services
DAWSON: US Tax Court Electronic Filing and Case Management System
Decidim: Spanish online direct democracy
DECODE: European tools for democratically sharing data
Docracy: Crowdsourced legal documents
Dollar For Debt Forgiveness: Online tool for applying for American hospitals' Charity Care programs
DoNotPay: Automated consumer rights, small claims, anti-robocalls
Easy Expunctions
Family Law Flowcharts from CLEO
FineFixer: Suggests ways of dealing with fines
Formally: Accessibility layer for USCIS forms
GetUptoCode.org: Request housing repairs from landlords
Hello Divorce: Kit providing guidance through an uncontested divorce
HelloPrenup: Guidance through drafting prenuptial agreements. https://www.giantrobots.fm/437
Iowa Interactive Court Forms: Iowa courts using LawHelp Interactive
JustFix.nyc: Tools for tenants
JUSTICE: Virtual court design effort (UK)
Justice Connect: Connecting people to legal help they need
justice.cool: Automated EU air travel rights enforcement
Kleros: Dispute resolution on Ethereum
LawHelp Interactive: Document automation platform. Pro Bono Net using HotDocs, optionally A2J Author
Lawpath: Online, on-demand legal for businesses
LegalBeagles: Free, public consumer law forum
Legally Yours: Legal services marketplace
Legal Tune Up: Scans public records to find legal problems that can be solved without a lawyer
Louisiana judge Scott Schlegel on using off-the-shelf software in courts. Efficiency-based argument
Maryland Justice Passport
Mes Aides: Informs French citizens on benefits eligiblity. Based on OpenFisca
MuckRock: Assistance in filing FOIA requests and publishing the results
MyOpenCourt: AI-powered legal tools: Employee classifier, severance calculator. By Conflict Analytics at Queen's Law
PainWorth: Personal injury settlement assessment
PARLe: Online low-intensity dispute resolution, from UdeM's Cyberjustice Lab
Rasa Legal: Criminal record expungement (Utah)
People Clerk: Procedural support for California small claims
Recidiviz: Criminal justice data platform
Reclamo: Stolen wage recovery
SAEF Legal Aid: Legal aid navigator (Illinois)
SimpleCitizen: TurboTax for US immigration
SoloSuit: Automated debt collection claim responses
TrueVisa: Attorney-guided immigration platform
Tuit: Lawyer-developed workflows and chat bots for SRLs
Valla: resolve your grievance or employment issue
Canadian Online Wills Made Easy | Willful
YouIn?: Anonymous union drive app

See Catherine Bamford's survey of document automation tools at DocAutoDatabase
Alexsei: AI-generated memos in response to legal questions
Athennian: Legal entity management
Avokaado: Document management
BamLegal: Document automation services for law firms (UK)
Blue J: Fact pattern -> case outcome prediction
Bounsel: Contract automation platform. Seems like great working conditions (Spain)
Briefpoint: AI for discovery response
Casetext: Lexis/Westlaw alternative (US)
Clearbrief: Word addon to semantically sync brief content with sources of law or facts. Very cool
Community.lawyer: Legal practice automation
DataLex: AustLII's RaC app platform
Documate
Digital Legal Exchange: Training and guidance for lawyers on shifting to digital
Diligen: Contract analysis
DISCO: Various
Disputec: Online conflict resolution. "The communication in Disputec is done by using short claims articulated in a binary format of yes/no questions." Seems similar to Polis maybe
Eigen: Document analysis
EvenUp: AI-assisted personal injury demands (sample)
Fastcase: Legal research service
Flex Legal: Gig legal work
HotDocs: Document automation. Very popular
Hotshot Legal: Just-in-time education for lawyers
Immediation: ODR platform (Aus)
Judicata: Legal research platform, acquired by Fastcase. Clerk is cool
Juralio: Software for mapping legal work (Scotland)
Jurisage: Legal research tools (Can, USA)
Jurism: Zotero for legal resources
Juro: Contract automation
Justice42: ODR platform, basis for divorce ODR in the Netherlands
JusticeText: Audiovisual evidence review tools
Knowable: Contract analysis
LawDroid: Chatbot development and consulting for law firms
LegalMation: AI tools to produce litigation documents for pleadings, discovery, etc
Legal Nodes: Gig legal work
LegalServer: Case management focused on legal aid/public interest
Legito: Drafting workspace
Legl: Practice management software
Leverton: Automated data extraction and contract analytics
LexCheck: Pre-execution contract review from CodeX fellow Gary Sangha
Lexon: Human readable smart contract language
Libryo: Regulatory compliance management software
Litify: Practice management
Luminance: Document analysis
Malbek: CLM and contract analytics AI
MyCase: Case/practice management
neopolis: Word add-in for collaborative authoring and version control
Office & Dragons: Documents as dynamic representations of structured data
Paladin: Pro bono infrastructure
Paper Software: Microsoft Word add-in for contract editing
Parallel Search: Type a natural language proposition and find case law in support of it. Casetext product
Rally Legal: Legal CRM and automation tools
Realta Logic: Compliance (Aus)
Resolve Disputes Online: ODR platform (UK)
ROSS Chrome extension: Highlight text in Chrome and search for related case law
This Is Legal Design: Legal design consultancy
Tubman Project, a set of open source tools for public defenders: Research, evidence review, document automation
Uhura: AI-powered contract review (UK)
Verafin: Financial crime compliance/surveillance
visalaw.ai: Immigration law workflow software (Greg Siskind)
vLex: AI research tools from one of the minds behind CanLII
VrtuLaw: Platform for lawyers to productize and automate their services
WeSearch: Semantic search of your own documents. Casetext product

Norton Rose Fulbright LX Studio
Allen & Overy Fuse
Baker McKenzie Reinvent
BLG Beyond

CaseHOLD: 53k cases with holdings (USA)
Caselaw Access Project: 6.5 million cases up to 2015 (USA)
CourtX: Compass's annotated collection of Canadian case law, also published through vLex
Jail-Specific Data Analysis: Guide to analyzing jail data
Legal Innovation Data Institute: Legal data trust (CAN)
CUAD, a contract dataset from Atticus Project
Spot data
Lenczner Slaght SCC Case Database
CanLII says that "Using machine-learning technologies, certain court decisions are automatically assigned subjects based on a learning sets provided by the Ontario and Saskatchewan Law Societies." Would be interesting to see those learning sets. Similar to Spot?

Blackstone: A spaCy model for processing long-form, unstructured legal text
Learned Hands: Game about legal issue spotting that builds machine learning models (data)
LEGAL-BERT: BERT adapted to legal domain
Padex: Patent analysis
Spellbook: Contract drafting and review
Immigration Document Classification and Automated Response Generation – Compu…

Chainlink: Oracle network
Smart-Contract-Resources at master · ErichDylus

A2J Tech: Consultancy (Denver)
Accord Project: Open source computable contract tools
BCDevExchange: Digital government community
Button: Public and private sector digital services consultancy
DigitalService: National digital service (Germany)
DLI | Ctrl-Alt: Cornell research center
The Engine Room: A non-profit that aims to apply technology to social change
Fabulas: Outside counsel for computer-y things
inkling Legal Design (Aus)
Innovation for Justice (i4J)
Justicia Lab: Immigrant justice tech incubator at Pro Bono Net
Korbitec: Canadian civil litigation-focused document automation
LegaltechHub
Legal Tech Lab | University of Helsinki
Library Innovation Lab at Harvard hires for some interesting roles
Nava: Civic technology (USA)
Ontario Digital Service
Open City Network: Building democratic technology for municipal digital infrastructure
OpenLocal: Canadian digital services non-profit. Platforms for delivery and transit
Pro Bono Net
Felicity Conrad (Paladin)'s list of justice tech organizations (Medium)
RegLab: Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab at Stanford
Ryerson LIZ Sprint Studio: 12-week intensive for bringing proof of concept to market (see CodeX appearance)
Singapore Management University's Centre for Computational Law does a ton of interesting stuff, home of L4, Meng Weng Wong, Alexis Chun, once Jason Morris
SixFifty: Law/tech firm trying to make law easier to navigate (Utah)
Syke: Legal tech/legal ops consultancy
Tactical Tech: An international civic tech NGO
Teaching Technology to Law Students Special Interest Group
Theory and Principle | A Legal Technology Product Development Firm.
Vera Institute of Justice: Data-driven law reform advocacy
vTaiwan

A Digital Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: How Artificial Intelligence is Set to Worsen the Access to Justice Crisis
How Fair is Zoom Justice?
Whistleblowers: Software Bug Keeping Some Inmates In Prisons Beyond Release Dates: Arizona DoC can't update their software to keep up with changes in sentencing laws
BC corporate registry can't handle characters beyond English or French
Jennifer Cohn's tweet thread about computational vote-stealing in USA
Technology Theatre | Centre for International Governance Innovation
A $100 Million Mess of Court Records - The Assembly NC