The Legal Aid Society

nonprofit legal-aid provider

The Legal Aid Society

Industry Legal

A nonprofit legal-aid organization providing civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights services in New York City. The Legal Aid Society scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the institution is less hostile to people with weak bargaining power, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.

Why this matters: The Legal Aid Society is a strong legal-services entry because it routes legal capacity to people facing poverty, prosecution, eviction, and institutional power.

Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 55* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material55
Bonus+0
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap55
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Extraction8/10
  • Ownership7/10
  • Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims3
  • Direct axis claims3
  • Coverage3/9

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
6 / 10

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
7 / 7

The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment.

Linked evidence
  • The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
7 / 7

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs.

Linked evidence
  • The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets.

Linked evidence
  • context The Legal Aid Society is a nonprofit legal-services organization, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment compared with private legal-service markets. [1]
  • context The Legal Aid Society provides civil, criminal defense, and juvenile-rights legal services, supporting Product Integrity for ordinary and emergency legal needs. [2]
  • context The organization prioritizes legal help for people who otherwise lack power in courts and public systems, provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment. [3]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

No bonus credits applied in this version.

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

3 verified linked claims 3 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 3/9 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 20/20

3 verified linked claims

Source quality 12/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 6/18

3 direct claims across 9 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 3/10

3/9 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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