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Access to Justice

Technology widening access to legal help.

2 pieces
No. 089
10 min
The Legal AI Criminal Defense Access Gap Report 2026: How AI-Assisted Legal Tools Are Reaching Civil and Transactional Practice — and Failing to Penetrate Public Defender Offices, Indigent Defense Criminal Representation

Legal artificial intelligence has matured rapidly since 2023, with tools like Harvey AI, Clio Duo, LexisNexis Lexis+ AI, and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel achieving meaningful penetration in BigLaw, mid-market transactional firms, and civil litigation boutiques. Yet the offices bearing the heaviest case volumes in the American...

August 22, 2026
No. 046
10 min
The Access to Justice Technology Gap: Measuring What Works

The United States faces a civil legal aid crisis that technology has promised to solve for over a decade. Approximately 92% of the civil legal needs of low-income Americans go unmet, according to the Legal Services Corporation's 2022 Justice Gap Report — a figure that...

May 22, 2026
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