™Facing court.Facing the docket.
Facing civil court alone is hard. Serving those who do is harder. George is built for both sides of the counter.
Legal Aid,Multiplied.™
Advocate time is the scarcest resource in the system. George extends it, in the ways each program chooses.
On a tablet or before the intake call, an SRL organizes facts, deadlines and documents. George asks the questions each program specifies. The program decides eligibility and acceptance.
When the SRL chooses, the Litigant Record transmits every fact George has gathered, in order. The advocate starts with records in hand.
An SRL outside a program's eligibility or capacity constraints faces the same summons and the same hearing. George offers plain language, clear steps and the forms that fit, and points back to legal aid when appropriate.
Your Door. Your Rules.
Each legal aid program decides whether George takes part, how far, and on what terms.
- Optional, phased and revocable. A program can begin with one function, add others over time, or step back at any point.
- The program sets the questions. George asks the eligibility questions each program specifies, and only with the SRL’s agreement. The program decides eligibility and acceptance. George decides neither.
- The program sets the delivery. The Litigant Record arrives the way the program chooses: through case management system integration, by email, or in the SRL’s own hands. George integrates with most case management systems.
- Nothing moves without the SRL. The Litigant Record travels only with the SRL’s affirmative consent.
- A one-way handoff. Once a program has the matter, George’s part is done, and nothing flows back.
A full record, more than a summary.
Every fact George gathered, in order, from two sources: what the SRL said in conversation and the text George read from uploaded documents. The documents themselves are not kept; George keeps only their text. The record arrives organized, so an advocate’s time can go to advice and advocacy.
The docketcan't wait.
An eviction case gets minutes, and that is no time to start the process. George reduces the friction by starting at the kitchen table, days before the court date.
Fewer minutes explaining procedure, and fewer continuances for lack of preparedness.
George covers the summons, the deadlines, the forms and what to expect, so clerks field fewer questions they can't answer.
On a courthouse kiosk or the litigant's own phone, George explains the process and steps through the forms. When a matter needs a person, it points back to the help center, legal aid or counsel.
Explained before court. Understood in court.
Georgetakes no side.
The same process, explained the same way, to any self-represented litigant. The merits, the other party's position and the Court's judgment stay untouched.
"The court is neutral, which means they are not on your side, and they are not on the other side."
From a George plan.
George is not an advocacy engine. Whether a Court enables, provides or recommends George, the Court stays neutral. The procedural guidance comes from George, not from the Court, and it stops at legal information and procedure. Every self-represented litigant receives the same explanation and the same resource, regardless of which side they are on, including the small landlord who comes to court without counsel. George is built for self-represented litigants and is not intended for represented parties.
George is court-adjacent, and the Court sets the terms. A summons insert, a clerk’s referral card, a sign in the courthouse, a kiosk in the lobby: each Court decides how George is deployed.
Virginia already has authoritative resources. George is built to deliver those resources so they can be understood.
Virginia setsthe standard.
Tonight, somewhere in the Commonwealth, a litigant is typing a court date into a chatbot. The answer may be another state’s law, a deadline that does not exist, or advice no one is accountable for. Virginia has the chance to define how AI supports access to justice, for its own litigants and for the states that come after.
For the bar, the foundations, and the institutions that fund and oversee access to justice in the Commonwealth.
George modules were written by humans, from Virginia law, and point to Virginia’s own forms. George is in supervised testing by members of the Virginia Access to Justice Commission today.
George is free to every SRL. Litigant data is never sold and never used to train an AI model. Institutions fund the upkeep. A public benefit corporation holds the mission in its charter.
A stale deadline harms the litigant who relies on it. Keeping George current with Virginia law is continuous work, done by humans. The platform, the modules and the governance library exist today, and no court or legal aid program is asked to build or maintain them.
Every George output traces to facts the SRL confirmed. Every partner receives access to George’s governance and compliance register and dashboard.
Proven here.Carried further.
Evictions in Virginia's general district courts are where George proves the model. Next comes another area of civil law, chosen with Virginia partners. Then other states, each with its own law and its own partners.
- TodaySupervised testing
- NextVirginia pilot
- ThenStatewide deployment
- ThenAdditional areas of law
- ThenOther states and jurisdictions
Virginia evictions first, because stability starts at home. Then other areas of law. Then other states. New jurisdictions. New Courts. Same standard.
One engine.Many doors.
The George engine is a legal decision tree with a plain-language conversation on top, and it has been adapted broadly for different applications.
A tablet in a legal aid waiting room before intake. A kiosk in a court help center. A referral card at the clerk's counter. A litigant's own phone at the kitchen table, days before the hearing. Each program sets its questions, each court sets its terms, and the same governance travels with every one.
Let's talk about a fit for your organization.
Start withone scenario.
25 minutes, one eviction scenario. We will walk it through George, end-to-end, and talk about a fit for your court or program. George is seeking institutional partners today.
Access to justice commissions, the judiciary and clerks' offices, court help centers, legal aid programs, the bar and foundations, and law school clinics.
davidgibson@georgeva.com
469.763.0775