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$4.3M in Grants to 36 Legal Services Programs Underscore Role of Tech in Driving Access to Justice

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That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such technology. Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut will use a $150,593 grant to create a cloud-based pro bono portal.

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Clients Are Spending More on Legal Tech: Can Smaller Firms Keep Up?

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As business clients deploy new technology to manage litigation, contracts and communications, they will prefer working with equally tech-focused outside counsel. Technology providers are responding to this shift with practice-specific tools and features and integrations with courts, regulatory bodies and other industry resources.

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Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reform Finds It Is Driving ‘Substantial Innovation’ In Legal Services Delivery with No Harm to Consumers

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“The evidence gathered in this report shows that rule reforms can spur significant innovation, both in the ownership structure of legal services providers and in the delivery models used to serve clients,” the report concludes. Not surprisingly, technology is a critical element in innovation of legal services delivery.

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The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J

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In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. We talk often of the justice gap in this country — of the fact that the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems.

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$4.3M in Grants to 36 Legal Services Programs Underscore Role of Tech in Driving Access to Justice

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That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such technology. Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut will use a $150,593 grant to create a cloud-based pro bono portal.

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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

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legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Courts; and Jack Cushman, director of the Library Innovation Lab. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S.

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LTRC Roundtable Discussion: ChatGPT

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Overall, AI language models like ChatGPT have the potential to help address the access to justice challenge by providing affordable and accessible legal information and support to people, but they should be used in conjunction with human expertise and judgment, and ethical and privacy concerns must be carefully addressed.