In 2022, low-income Americans did not receive enough, if any, legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems, according to a Legal Services Corp. report.
Two years later, the LSC, a nonprofit which funds civil legal aid programs, celebrated its 50th anniversary in Washington, D.C., on April 9. There, a conference room packed with legal aid attorneys from all over the country examined the progress made, the long road ahead and pondered exactly what role, if any, generative artificial intelligence could play in bridging the access-to-justice gaps in the U.S. legal system.
