AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 5h ago6/10
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Evaluating Legal Reasoning Traces with Legal Issue Tree Rubrics
Researchers introduce LEGIT, a 24K-instance legal reasoning dataset with hierarchical argument trees that serve as evaluation rubrics for LLM-generated legal reasoning. The study reveals that LLM legal reasoning performance depends critically on both issue coverage and correctness, with RAG and reinforcement learning offering complementary improvements.