@inproceedings{liao-etal-2026-verdict, title = "{VERDICT}: Verifiable Evolving Reasoning with Directive-Informed Collegial Teams for Legal Judgment Prediction", author = "Liao, Hui and Qin, Chuan and Ren, Yongwen and Li, Hao and Huang, Zhenya and Zhang, Yanyong and Wang, Chao", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.277/", pages = "5831--5846", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }