Yidong Liu
2026
Ready Jurist One: Benchmarking Language Agents for Legal Intelligence in Dynamic Environments
Zheng Jia | Shengbin Yue | Wei Chen | Siyuan Wang | Yidong Liu | Zejun Li | Yun Song | Zhongyu Wei
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zheng Jia | Shengbin Yue | Wei Chen | Siyuan Wang | Yidong Liu | Zejun Li | Yun Song | Zhongyu Wei
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The gap between existing benchmarks and the dynamic nature of real-world legal practice poses a key barrier to advancing legal intelligence. To this end, we introduce J1-ENVS, the first interactive and dynamic legal environment tailored for LLM-based agents. Guided by legal experts, it comprises six representative scenarios from Chinese legal practices at three levels of environmental complexity. We further introduce J1-EVAL, a dual-metric evaluation framework, designed to assess both task performance and procedural compliance across varying levels of legal proficiency. Extensive experiments on 17 LLM agents reveal that while many models demonstrate solid legal knowledge, they struggle with procedural execution in dynamic settings. Even the SOTA model is below 60% overall performance . These findings highlight persistent challenges in achieving dynamic legal intelligence and offer valuable insights to guide future research.