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Legal Domain Adaptation of Modern BERT Models
Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson
We investigate domain adaptation of modern BERT models in the legal domain. We further pre-train ModernBERT on all US court opinions using the masked language modeling objective. A…
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Who Checks the Citations? Benchmarking Legal Hallucination Detection
Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson
Attorneys, judges, and pro se filers increasingly use AI to draft legal documents, yet these tools frequently fabricate citations. Despite predictions that newer models would hallu…
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AI-Assisted Moot Courts: Simulating Justice-Specific Questioning in Oral Arguments
Kylie Zhang, Nimra Nadeem, Lucia Zheng +2
In oral arguments, judges probe attorneys with questions about the factual record, legal claims, and the strength of their arguments. To prepare for this questioning, both law scho…