At the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovation Conference, Talk of ‘Radical Collaboration,’ Cutting-Edge AI, and Doing More with What You Have
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- February 2, 2026
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Margaret Hagan, executive director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School, led a panel on a groundbreaking seven-state AI cohort she is helping coordinate that exemplifies the “radical collaboration” theme.
Rather than each organization independently developing AI tools, the cohort follows a structured R&D process and systematically shares the lessons they learn. Together, Hagan said, they are focusing on specific pain points, testing with shared datasets, piloting solutions with real users, and documenting everything at JusticeBench.org, an open R&D platform where anyone can build on existing work rather than start from scratch.
The panelists emphasized the critical importance of knowledge bases – structured information about legal resources, services and rules. As Hagan emphasized, the “gold stuff” that legal organizations have is their expertise, and a key focus should be on structuring and labeling that expertise to make it AI-ready.
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