Digital Justice Award 2025

Earlier this week, we were honored for our work on xJuRAG, our joint project with the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI).

Our colleagues Emilius Richter, Julius Lauenstein and Manu Keiper presented xJuRAG to the audience of the Digital Justice Summit, explaining how we are tackling the black box problem of AI generations for the legal and justice sector.

For these domains, it is not enough for an AI system to answer complex legal questions - it must show how it actually derived an answer. So with xJuRAG, we are working on:

• Transparency: Citing sources and revealing its decision-making foundation.
• Trust: Using Attention-aware Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (AttnLRP) to show how the model reaches its conclusions.
• Efficiency: Accelerating legal research without sacrificing accountability.

The consensus of the Digital Justice Summit was quite clear:

The digitization of the justice system is urgent. In order to cope with the increased pace of modernized workflows at legal firms, the justice sector needs to also pick up the pace, especially due to factors like a skilled labor shortage caused by demographic shifts - often referred to as reaching "Equality of Arms" (Waffengleichheit).

However, the crucial condition remains: AI in justice must be sovereign, compliant, and above all explainable.

That is why we at dida are incredibly proud to have won the Digital Justice Award!