Quinten Steenhuis
Senior Practitioner in Residence, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab
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Quinten Steenhuis is a senior practitioner in residence and the co-director of the Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab. and founder and CEO of Lemma Legal Consulting. At Suffolk, he leads the Document Assembly Line project that builds and maintains CourtFormsOnline.org. His work focuses on closing the access to justice gap with technology, especially interactive tools that help people who cannot afford an attorney, including generative AI tools. He has expertise in testing and validating AI applications for safety and quality. Quinten’s work has been recognized by national media, including the ABA Journal and the New York Times. In 2022, his work on the tool Massachusetts Defense for Eviction was recognized in a joint press release by the White House and the Department of Justice. He has been named an ABA “Legal Rebel” and an honoree of the Fastcase 50 award, as well as the American Legal Technology Award’s access to justice prize.
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)
