Neon Law Foundation
Everyone in America should be able to exercise their legal rights.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that pairs legal aid centers with volunteer attorneys and AI technology, so the matters sitting on a waitlist actually get resolved.
We teach the CLEs, we run the trainings, we make the match, and we give every matter a case management workspace at no cost.
The technology takes the first draft. A lawyer does the deciding.
Our mission
The access-to-justice gap is not a shortage of law. It is a shortage of hours.
Legal aid centers turn away people with real, winnable claims every day, because the intake, the research, and the first draft take hours nobody has. Meanwhile, thousands of solo and small firm attorneys would take a pro bono matter if the work arrived scoped, organized, and ready to move.
We believe recent advances in technology can collapse the hours without collapsing the judgment. Used carefully, and reviewed adversarially, AI takes the weeks out of a matter and leaves the lawyering in.
The programs
What we do
Education and CLEs
- Continuing legal education
- Hands-on workshops
- AI-assisted drafting
- Adversarial review
- Prompting for legal work
- Confidentiality and competence
- Clinic staff training
- Train the trainer
Pairing centers with attorneys
Free case management
The pairing
How it works
A center brings us a matter it cannot staff
Our legal aid partners send us the matters that would otherwise sit on a waitlist. We work from the center’s own intake, so nobody has to re-tell their story to get help.
We match it to a volunteer attorney
We match on practice area, jurisdiction, and the scope the attorney can genuinely commit to. A limited-scope engagement that gets finished beats a full representation that stalls.
The matter gets a workspace, at no cost
Deadlines, tasks, documents, and correspondence are set up before the attorney’s first call. The referring center keeps visibility into status without having to chase anyone for an update.
AI takes the first pass; the attorney decides
Intake summaries, issue spotting, and first drafts come back in minutes instead of weeks. That is the part of the work that has always made pro bono expensive in hours.
Nothing leaves the workspace without an attorney reviewing it. The model drafts. The lawyer is responsible, and the lawyer signs.
The matter closes and the center gets the record
When the matter resolves, the center receives a complete record of what was done. What we learn from it goes back into the trainings, so the next volunteer starts further along than the last one did.
How we run
What we hold to
Speed is the point
A right you cannot exercise for eighteen months is not much of a right. We measure ourselves on how fast a matter actually resolves.
A human is accountable
AI drafts, summarizes, and organizes. A licensed attorney reviews and decides, every time. We will not ship a robot lawyer, and we will not pretend one exists.
Free, and we mean free
No cost to the client, no cost to the legal aid center, and no cost to the volunteer attorney. We are funded as a nonprofit so the work does not have to pay for itself.