The Team

Who’s Behind the Initiative

TheLegalBench is led by a small team of legal and AI professionals committed to building independent, rigorous evaluation standards. The initiative is designed to grow — as the community expands, so will this team.

Freya Piper

Lead Contributor & Coordinator of TheLegalBench · Legal Engineer at Genie AI · Qualified Solicitor

Qualified solicitor and Legal Engineer at Genie AI, bridging law and AI. Freya brings experience across private practice, in-house roles, and litigation, and contributes to legal innovation research through the FLITE Research Group at the University of Portsmouth.

Nitish Mutha

Co-Founder & CTO at Genie AI

Co-Founder and CTO of Genie AI, a London-based platform modernising legal tech with autonomous AI agents. Nitish holds an MSc in Machine Learning with Distinction from University College London and brings 10+ years of experience in software engineering and machine learning.

You?

This Could Be You

If you want to contribute to an unbiased, independent evaluation of AI legal agents — and help define how the profession validates them — we want to hear from you.

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Note: TheLegalBench is affiliated with Genie AI, which provides resourcing support including the AI-generated documents used in the evaluation. The evaluation framework, scoring methodology, and published findings are driven entirely by the participating legal professionals.

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Want to Contribute?

We are recruiting our first evaluator cohort. If you are a qualified lawyer with an interest in independent AI evaluation research, we would welcome your application.

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