ModelLLMsvv1

LegalBERT

by Ilias Chalkidis et al. (Academic) · open-source · Last verified 2026-03-17

LegalBERT is a BERT-based model pre-trained on a large corpus of legal text including EU legislation, US court decisions, contracts, and legal articles. It significantly outperforms general BERT models on legal NLP tasks and has become the standard baseline for legal text processing research.

https://huggingface.co/nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased ↗

B—Above Average

Adoption: BQuality: AFreshness: CCitations: AEngagement: F

Specifications

License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Pricing: open-source
Capabilities: legal-text-classification, contract-analysis, case-law-retrieval, legal-ner
Integrations: Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Use Cases: contract clause classification, legal document classification, case outcome prediction, regulatory compliance analysis
API Available: Yes
Parameters: ~110M
Context Window: 512 tokens
Modalities: text
Training Cutoff: 2020
Tags: legal, bert, nlp, contracts, case-law
Added: 2026-03-17
Completeness: 100%

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62.5

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