Tens of millions of civil legal problems go unaddressed each year in the United States, while AI technologies are rapidly finding applications across virtually every domain of human endeavor. In this high velocity moment, the conference will examine how AI is being summoned to close the civil justice gap. Scholars, practitioners, reformers, and technologists will convene for public conversation and debate around three core questions: What is the access to justice movement? What is the potential of emerging AI technologies to address the civil justice crisis? And what safeguards should shape increased reliance on proposed AI solutions? Join us for this terrific set of three CLE events on April 21st. Here's the overview:

Agenda

I.        1:00 pm to 2:15 pm:  The Access to Justice Movement - The access to justice crisis in high-volume courts (housing, family, debt), leading reform initiatives, and the place of AI tools in the landscape.

Moderator:  David Udell, Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice, Fordham Law

Presenters:

a)  Housing – Sateesh Nori, Senior Research Fellow, Center on Civil Justice, NYU Law

b)  Family – Hon. Liberty Aldrich (ret.), Executive Director, Children’s Law Center

c)  Debt – Carolyn Coffey, Director of Litigation for Economic Justice, Mobilization for Justice

d)  Looking to the future – Neil Steinkamp, Managing Director, Stout

 

II.       2:30 pm to 3:45 pm:  AI Interventions for Access to Justice - AI applications being rolled out to help people resolve legal problems.

Moderator: Sateesh Nori, Senior Research Fellow, Center on Civil Justice, NYU Law

Presenters:

a)  What AI Apps Do at Civil Legal Aid – Alexander Horwitz, Chief Operating Officer, Legal Services for New York City

b)  Creating Legal Tech that Works – Sam Flynn, CEO, Josef

c)  AI and Online Dispute Resolution – Greg Kochansky, American Arbitration Association

 

III.      4:00 to 5:15 pm:  AI Risks and Safeguards - Ways AI goes awry, perspectives of the judiciary, unauthorized practice of law rules, and the new regulatory approaches.

Moderator:  Prof. Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law

Presenters:

a)  Ways AI Goes Awry – Prof. Milan Markovic, Texas A&M Law

b)  Procurement, Contracting, and Risk Management for AI in Courts.– Zach Zarnow, Executive Director, Scale Justice

c)  UPL Rules v. AI & AtJ – Prof. Ellen Murphy, Wake Forest Law

d)  Regulatory Goals for AI, Pertinent to AtJ – Kate Brennan, AI Now

 

Join NCAJ (with our conference co-hosts and co-sponsors) on April 21st for this opportunity to learn about access to justice and the leading edge of the debate around the access to justice crisis, artificial intelligence interventions, and the risks and safeguards that are influencing fairness in our high volume courts. REGISTER HERE (to sign up, select in person or Zoom, and learn about CLE). To learn more about our work, visit the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law, and sign up for our news here.

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