501(c)(3) nonprofit
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 get taken up.
We teach the continuing legal education, 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 matters they have no capacity to staff, because the intake, the research, and the first draft take hours nobody has. Solo and small firm attorneys tell us they 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
- Clinic staff training
See the curriculumUsing AI in legal work is a skill, and it has to survive professional scrutiny. We teach it directly: how to draft with a model, how to check it, and when to throw its answer away.
Sessions are built for practitioners, not for demos, and are free to our partners.
Pairing centers with attorneys
- Intake triage
- Matter matching
- Solo and small firm volunteers
- Scoped engagements
For legal aid centersLegal aid centers have more matters than capacity. Solo attorneys have capacity but no reliable way to find work that fits. We close that gap.
We take the matters a center cannot staff and match them to volunteer attorneys by practice area, jurisdiction, and the scope they can actually commit to.
Free case management
- No cost
- Deadlines and tasks
- Document assembly
- Visibility for the referring center
For attorneysEvery matter we place comes with a workspace, and it is free for the attorney and free for the center. Deadlines, documents, and the record of what happened all live in one place.
A solo taking a pro bono matter should not have to buy software to do it.
The pairing
How it works
From a matter a center cannot staff to a resolution, with a licensed attorney accountable at every step.
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 are prepared before the attorney opens the matter. That is the part of the work that makes 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 in time is not much of a right. We measure ourselves on how long a matter actually takes.
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 or discounted
No cost to the legal aid organization, and no cost to the volunteer attorney. For the client, legal fees are free or reduced, set by the organization that certified them. Court filing fees and similar costs are not ours to waive; we tell you what they are before they land.