Can technology help solve the access to justice crisis? Yes, and two members of the Everlaw for Good Advisory Board discuss how.
The blog post from Everlaw titled (wait for it!) How Technology Can Help Solve the Access to Justice Crisis (written by Gina Jurva and available here), hits us with a startling statistic: 92 percent of the legal problems encountered by low-income Americans get no or insufficient help. It’s a figure both Bridget McCormack and Verna Williams cite without hesitation, and it defines the crisis they’ve spent their careers trying to solve.
McCormack, CEO and president of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, frames it bluntly. “The civil justice system is a massive market failure. If folks don’t see it that way, then they’re not looking.”
Williams, CEO of Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest facilitator of postgraduate legal fellowships, sees the human cost daily. “Some scholars estimate that 150 million legal issues go unresolved every single year,” she said. “We’ve got to do something about that.”
Both leaders are part of Everlaw’s Everlaw for Good Advisory Board, convinced that solving the access to justice crisis requires collaboration beyond the legal profession, and that technology, particularly artificial intelligence, might finally offer the breakthrough they’ve been waiting for.
While both leaders see generative AI as potentially transformative, that’s only if it’s deployed thoughtfully. Couldn’t agree more.
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So, what do you think? Do you think that technology can help solve the access to justice crisis? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.
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