Technology and Innovation
Building the future of legal services
Leveraging Technology for Legal Services
LSC-funded organizations turn away half the people who are eligible to receive services, simply due to lack of resources.
While we continue to try to fill this funding gap, technology and innovation are key components to helping more people navigate the complex legal system.
Leading Change
As the nation’s largest funder of civil legal aid, LSC’s network of legal services organizations spans the country. This network serves as a strong proving ground for testing new ideas and ensuring that clients remain at the heart of any advancements, including:
Guiding developments in the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI)
Building successful partnerships with volunteer attorneys for pro bono service
Ensuring strong digital infrastructure to protect grantees from hackers and scams
Expanding who can provide legal services through justice worker models
Learning Lab: A Resource for Innovators
The Peer Learning Lab is a virtual learning platform facilitated by LSC that brings together legal services staff, leaders and partners to explore emerging tech solutions to the challenge of meeting the vast need for civil legal assistance experienced by so many Americans.
Reimagining Pro Bono
The Pro Bono Innovation Fund awards grants and fosters collaboration to engage more lawyers and other volunteers in expanding access to high-quality legal services.
Transformation Through Technology
For more than 20 years, LSC has been the leading voice in legal services technology.
Innovations in Technology Conference
The Innovations in Technology Conference (ITC) is the premier legal services tech conference, focused on advancing access to justice through innovation. The annual event brings together developers and legal services providers to explore cutting-edge tools, emerging trends and practical solutions that are transforming how legal services are delivered to those who need it most.
See the latest from ITC
Technology Initiative Grants
LSC’s Technology Initiative Grant program awards special funding to support creative and innovative uses of technology that enhance grantees’ operations and client services.
Explore Technology Initiative GrantsExpanding Where and Who Can Help
We need more lawyers providing legal services. Plain and simple. But when more than 90% of low-income Americans’ civil legal needs are going unmet, we need other solutions — other problem solvers — too.
Medical-Legal Partnerships
Any doctor can help heal a senior citizen’s fractured arm. What they can’t do is force a landlord to fix the broken steps that caused the senior’s fall. But a lawyer can.
For decades, partnerships between medical and legal services providers have been improving the health of Americans across the country. LSC is proud to partner with the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership to promote and expand this work.
Justice Workers
Rarely will a doctor give a vaccine to a child. The doctor won’t weigh you or draw your blood or take your x-ray photos. This work is done by other medical professionals — nurses, medical techs, physicians’ assistants.
The same can be true in law. While you need a lawyer to stand with you and argue a case in court, other legal professionals can help you fill out paperwork or explain your rights in certain situations.
Across the country, waves of legal advocates — or justice workers — are being trained and deployed. LSC is proud to partner with Frontline Justice and others to promote and expand this work.