Quinten Steenhuis
Practitioner in Residence and Adjunct Professor, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab
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Quinten Steenhuis is a practitioner in residence and adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. He spent 12 years as a housing attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services. His work focuses on closing the access to justice gap with technology, especially interactive tools that help people who cannot afford an attorney. Quinten’s signature projects include MADE, the Massachusetts Defense for Eviction tool, and Court Forms Online, an international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Quinten Steenhuis was named a "Legal Rebel" by the ABA Journal. His work automating legal help has been highlighted in national media, including the New York Times and Boston Globe, and in 2022 he was recognized in a joint press release by the White House and the Department of Justice.
Selected Publications
Articles
- Beyond Readability with RateMyPDF: A Combined Rule-based and Machine Learning Approach to Improving Court Forms, ICAIL ’23: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 287–296 (2023) (with Bryce Willey and David Colarusso)
- Weaving Pathways for Justice with GPT: LLM-driven Automated Drafting of Interactive Legal Applications, (2023) (with David Colarusso and Bryce Willey)
- Digital Curb Cuts: Towards an Inclusive Open Forms Ecosystem, 54 Akron L. Rev. 773 (2021) (with David Colarusso)
- Substantive Legal Software Quality: A Gathering Storm?, ICAIL ’19: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 52–62 (2019) (with Marc Lauritsen)
Book Chapters
- AI and Tools for Expanding Access to Justice, in The Cambridge Handbook of AI in Civil Dispute Resolution (Cambridge University Press 2026)
- That’s So FETCH: Fashioning Ensemble Techniques for LLM Classification in Civil Legal Intake and Referral, in JURIX 2025: The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 416) 192–203 (IOS Press 2025)
- Getting in the Door: Streamlining Intake in Civil Legal Services with Large Language Models, in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 395) 155–167 (IOS Press 2024) (with Hannes Westermann)
