Learning Lab

Applying AI to Access to Justice in Pro Bono and Legal Services

Can AI help bridge the A2J gap? Can non-technical lawyers create safe, accessible, and equitable technology tools? Join this interactive panel on leveraging generative AI and improving existing technology for client intake. We discuss our own legal aid technology, challenges, and lessons, including: unauthorized practice of law, buy-in, and sustainability.

  • Upon completion, participants will be able to analyze, evaluate, and apply AI tools in their practice in pro bono and public interest law contexts.
  • Participants will be able to build their own AI tools.
  • Particpants will be able to compare AI tools to common, historic practices and methods.

Eliza Hong

Eliza Hong (they/them) is a third year law student at Cornell Law School, the technology lead for the Ithaca Tenants Legal Hotline and Tenants Advocacy Practicum, and Legal Technologist at the legal technology company Josef. Eliza led the team that created the tenant rights chatbot on ithacatenantresources.org, integrated Josef's AI technology into the Tenants Advocacy Practicum, and builds AI tools for nonprofits through Josef. Eliza has written on access to justice, AI, and designing technologies through human-centered design. They hold a BA in Nonviolent Social Movements from Mary Baldwin University. After law school, Eliza will work in private practice in New York state.

Sateesh Nori, JD

Clinical Adjunct Professor

NYU School of Law

Sateesh Nori is a lawyer, law professor, and author. For twenty years, he represented tenants across New York City at various legal services organizations. He was a commissioner of the 2019 Charter Revision Commission. He was also the Executive Director of housing justice startup JustFix. He co-created and co-teaches the Housing Rights Clinic at NYU Law. Sateesh is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and NYU Law. Sateesh was named a “Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal, one of “Queens’ Power 50,” and was featured as a “Legal Rebel” in the Spring 2021 ABA Journal. In 2023, he was a recipient of the New York City Bar Association’s “Legal Services Award.” In 2023, he published a book about his work as a housing attorney, entitled “Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court.”

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Up to 1.80 CLE credits available  |  Certificate available
Up to 1.80 CLE credits available  |  Certificate available