Join a working group
Join the working sessions, help write the standards, and shape what a working group publishes. Members stay with a group through a workflow and put their names on what it publishes.
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Ways to work with us
Pick the one that fits what you can give. Everything here goes to the same short form at the foot of this page, and we write back.
Build and test with us
The Commons designs, builds, and tests the work with the people who will use it.
Be a pilot site
Work with our Lab team and with builders and evaluators to be one of the first groups to run a tool and test it in practice.
Build a common infrastructure tool
Engineers and designers building any of the shared tools the field needs. Pick one from the agenda, or propose your own.
Work on evaluation and measurement
Researchers and evaluators who want to work on how these tools get tested, what counts as evidence that one helps, and how a working group writes its evaluation protocol.
Share what you have built and learned
Work that already exists is worth more when the rest of the field can find it.
Put your project, evaluation, or report on JusticeBench
JusticeBench is the open collection of what the field has built and learned. It lists the tools that are running, the evaluations people have done, the reports they have written, and the datasets and benchmarks others can test against. Describe what you have there and any team anywhere can find it, cite it, and build on it.
The Commons is where a workflow gets designed, built, and tested with a working group. JusticeBench is where the whole field's work sits together.
Tell us about what you built, or are building
If your team has a tool running, or half built, we want to hear how it is put together. We talk through the architecture with you, work out which parts are particular to your place and which could be shared, and write it up as a reference other teams can build from. You decide what gets published and what stays with you.
Share example data, made safe first
Tools get tested against the documents and the cases they will meet, so we are looking for sample case files, the inputs people bring, and the outputs a service produces. None of it should be real. The way in is a fictional doppelganger: your real file rewritten with invented names, dates, addresses, and amounts, keeping the shape and the difficulty of the original so it is still worth building against. Tell us what you have and we will go through it with you and help you make the synthetic version.
Use it where you work
Take the materials into your own organization, your own purchase, or your own classroom.
Use the materials in an RFP and in contracting
If your organization is about to put out a request for proposals or sign a contract for a tool, run the group's terms through it. The terms get tested against a real vendor and come back improved for everyone else.
Run a design workshop with us
We hold working sessions where a team takes one situation, works through how the service treats that person today, redesigns it, and writes a technology vision a funder or a builder could act on. Host one with your staff, your network, or your conference, and we bring the facilitation and the materials.
Work with our students as a subject matter expert
The Legal Design Lab runs classes where students scope a workflow, write the agenda for it, and set the standards a tool would have to meet. Those teams need people who know the work to react, correct them, and say what matters. If your group would take that on with a student team, put your name in and we will match you.
Follow the work
Read what comes out and come in further whenever you want to.
Get updates on what we publish
Hear when a working group publishes something, and come in further whenever you want to.
Organizations and funders who want to support this work can get in touch the same way.
