The Stanford Legal Design Lab hosted the second annual AI and Access to Justice Summit on November 20-21, 2025. Over 150 legal professionals, technologists, regulators, strategists, and funders came together to tackle one big question: how can we build a strong, sustainable national/international AI and Access to Justice Ecosystem?
We will be synthesizing all of the presentations, feedback, proposals and discussions into a report that lays out:
- The current toolbox that legal help teams and users can be employing to accomplish key legal tasks like Q&A, triage and referrals, conducting intake interviews, drafting documents, doing legal research, reviewing draft documents, and more.
- The strategies, practical steps, and methods with which to design, develop, evaluate, and maintain AI so that it is valuable, safe, and affordable.
- Exemplary case studies of what AI solutions are being built, how they are being implemented in new service and business models, and how they might be scaled or replicated.
- An agenda of how to encourage more coordination of AI technology, evaluation, and capability-building, so that successful solutions can be available to as many legal teams and users as possible — and have the largest positive impact on people’s housing, financial, family, and general stability.
Thank you to all of our speakers, participants, and sponsors!
