{"id":101284,"date":"2025-01-21T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/21\/can-ai-bridge-the-justice-gap-legal-aid-lawyer-and-innovator-sateesh-nori-thinks-so\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:03:26","slug":"can-ai-bridge-the-justice-gap-legal-aid-lawyer-and-innovator-sateesh-nori-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/21\/can-ai-bridge-the-justice-gap-legal-aid-lawyer-and-innovator-sateesh-nori-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI Bridge the Justice Gap? Legal Aid Lawyer and Innovator Sateesh Nori Thinks So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From legal aid attorney to legal tech innovator, Sateesh Nori brings a unique perspective to the intersection of artificial intelligence and access to justice.\u00a0 After spending two decades in the trenches as a housing lawyer at legal aid offices in New York City, Nori now bridges multiple worlds \u2013 continuing his legal aid work at [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>From legal aid attorney to legal tech innovator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sateesh-nori-9a80aa102\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sateesh Nori<\/a> brings a unique perspective to the intersection of artificial intelligence and access to justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After spending two decades in the trenches as a housing lawyer at legal aid offices in New York City, Nori now bridges multiple worlds \u2013 continuing his legal aid work at the Legal Aid Society of NYC while also serving as an adjunct clinical professor at NYU Law School in its eviction defense clinic and working as a senior legal innovation strategist at <a href=\"https:\/\/just-tech.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Just-Tech LLC<\/a>, a technology consulting firm that focuses on legal services providers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SateeshNori-BobAmbrogi-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48626\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SateeshNori-BobAmbrogi-300x169.jpeg?resize=425%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" title=\"\"><\/a>He recently partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/housingcourtanswers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Court Answers<\/a>, a nonprofit tenants\u2019 rights organization in NYC, and <a href=\"https:\/\/joseflegal.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josef<\/a>, the legal automation company, to develop and launch Roxanne, an AI-powered tool to help tenants understand their repair rights, and he believes artificial intelligence could be the key to finally making meaningful progress in closing the justice gap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As if all that were not enough to keep Nori busy, he recently published a memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4aoq0xW\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court<\/i><\/a>, and gave a TEDx talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z2TtVvopqzc?si=_3CarV1RHJZBybjr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How A Chatbot Can Save Someone From Homelessness<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, in a conversation recorded live at the Legal Services Corporation\u2019s Innovations in Technology conference in Phoenix last week, Nori and host Bob Ambrogi discuss why he believes that AI is as transformative as electricity, how he is using it in his own work, and why he believes law schools are failing to prepare students for the AI revolution.<\/p>\n<h3>Thank You To Our Sponsors<\/h3>\n<p>This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. 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