CLAISep 12, 2025

Large Language Models Meet Legal Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

arXiv:2509.09969v18 citationsh-index: 3Has Code
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It provides a systematic introduction for beginners and encourages future research in LLM-based legal AI, but is incremental as it compiles existing resources without new methods or results.

This survey reviews the application of large language models (LLMs) in legal artificial intelligence, covering 16 legal LLMs, 47 frameworks, 15 benchmarks, and 29 datasets to enhance efficiency and accuracy in legal tasks.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the development of Legal Artificial Intelligence (Legal AI) in recent years, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of legal tasks. To advance research and applications of LLM-based approaches in legal domain, this paper provides a comprehensive review of 16 legal LLMs series and 47 LLM-based frameworks for legal tasks, and also gather 15 benchmarks and 29 datasets to evaluate different legal capabilities. Additionally, we analyse the challenges and discuss future directions for LLM-based approaches in the legal domain. We hope this paper provides a systematic introduction for beginners and encourages future research in this field. Resources are available at https://github.com/ZhitianHou/LLMs4LegalAI.

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