{"url":"/dataset/legalbench","name":"LegalBench","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"**LegalBench** is a fascinating project that revolves around legal reasoning and evaluation. Let me break it down for you:\r\n\r\n1. **LegalBench Website**:\r\n    - The **LegalBench website** serves as your ultimate legal helper. It's a platform where you can **hire expert lawyers** for various legal tasks, all online and from anywhere.\r\n    - Here's how it works:\r\n        1. **Post a Job**: If you have a legal task that needs completion, simply **post the job** on LegalBench.\r\n        2. **Receive Bids**: Within minutes, you'll start receiving **competitive bids** from freelancers who can handle your legal project.\r\n        3. **Connect with Lawyers**: Choose the right lawyer for your needs and get your project done.\r\n    - LegalBench covers a range of legal categories, including **patents** and **legal advice**¹.\r\n\r\n2. **LegalBench Benchmark**:\r\n    - The **LegalBench project** is an ongoing open science effort to collaboratively curate tasks for evaluating legal reasoning in **English large language models (LLMs)**.\r\n    - The benchmark currently consists of **162 tasks** gathered from **40 contributors**.\r\n    - Each task in the benchmark has an associated dataset, consisting of input-output pairs.\r\n    - It's a valuable resource for assessing how well language models understand and reason about legal concepts and scenarios.\r\n    - If you're curious, you can explore the **LegalBench GitHub repository** for more details²³.\r\n\r\nSource: Conversation with Bing, 3/16/2024\r\n(1) LegalBench | Your ultimate legal helper. https://legalbench.com/.\r\n(2) LegalBench - GitHub. https://github.com/HazyResearch/legalbench.\r\n(3) Home | LegalBench. https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/legalbench/.\r\n(4) LegalBench Dataset | Papers With Code. https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/legalbench.","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/nguha/legalbench","introduced_date":"2023-08-20","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/legalbench-a-collaboratively-built-benchmark-1","title":"LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models","first_author":"Neel Guha","url":null},"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["LegalBench"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":40,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}