Legal Aid of North Carolina Innovation Lab

🌐 Exploring Justice Through Tech Innovation 🌐 How can technology help bridge the justice gap? And what challenges do legal aid organizations face with tech adoption? Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Innovation Lab, with guidance from advisory board members Kelli Raker and Maya Markovich, took a deep dive into these questions through listening sessions with legal aid organizations across 13 states. Their findings reveal both the promise of technology—like AI-driven tools and streamlined document prep—and the need for careful vetting to ensure tech solutions align with access to justice. Discover more insights on the future of justice tech. Read the full article written by Kelli and Maya here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eG5aX62D #Accesstojustice #Justicetech #Innovation #AI #LegalAid #Legaltech

#Innovation doesn't have to be spooky either! 🎃 👻

💡 Facing the challenge of limited resources as a nonprofit law firm, we launched the Innovation Lab—a space where creativity drives solutions! By reimagining our processes and services, we're better equipped to serve our clients. Watch our full feature on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid to see how we're making a difference: https://lnkd.in/gVXcmT_X #Innovation #InnovationinAction #nonprofit

🚨 When Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, legal services organizations across the state sprang into action, delivering crucial pro bono disaster legal services to those in need. We’re grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with the North Carolina Bar Foundation and the Legal Aid of North Carolina Innovation Lab to support such an impactful mission. 💻

Scheree Gilchrist, our Chief Innovation Officer at Legal Aid of North Carolina, will be presenting at the Legal Services Corporation's 2025 Innovations in Technology Conference in Phoenix, AZ, from January 13-15, 2025! 🌐✨ We're honored to stand alongside hundreds of technologists, legal aid advocates, court personnel, law school professors, pro bono coordinators, and other professionals as we explore cutting-edge technology projects that are revolutionizing access to justice and enhancing high-quality legal representation for low-income individuals. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gqgdjWZ5

I am so excited to share our initial lineup of speakers for the Legal Services Corporation AI for Legal Aid Summit on Jan 12th in Phoenix! It's going to be a star-studded event helping attendees learn AI fundamentals, explore real world legal aid case studies, and get hands-on training on GPTs and prompt engineering. You do NOT want to miss it; tickets are only $50. Select speakers include: - Laura Safdie (VP of AI at Thomson Reuters), presenting our keynote on the Generational Opportunity for AI - Margaret Hagan (Executive Director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford), on Developing AI Standards - Scheree Gilchrist (Chief Innovation Officer at Legal Aid of North Carolina), Michael Semanchik (Executive Director at The Innocence Center), and Conor Malloy (Supervising Attorney & Rentervention Director at Law Center for Better Housing) sharing AI for Legal Aid Case Studies - Thomas G. Martin (CEO & Founder at LawDroid - Generative AI Legal Technology) on Prompt Engineering - Ransom Wydner (Vice President of Partnerships & Impact at SixFifty) on Building Your Own GPT - Adrián Palma (Global Pro Bono Manager and Digital Strategist at Microsoft) on Innovating Pro Bono through AI More to come! Get your ticket today at: https://lnkd.in/gnHesjU6

At Legal Aid of North Carolina, we’re always finding new & better ways to serve our clients! Check out this clip of our Chief Innovation Officer, Scheree Gilchrist, talking about LANCMobile, our Mobile Intake Unit. Right now, it’s on the ground in Western NC, providing support to survivors of Hurricane Helene. 💙 #InnovationInAction #LANCMobile #HurricaneHelene #LegalAidNC #ServingNC

Check out our feature on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid! 🎥 In the segment, we discuss the critical role of legal services, our ongoing innovations, and LANCMobile, our mobile intake unit, which is currently traveling through Western NC to assist those impacted by Hurricane Helene with disaster-related legal needs. #DisasterRelief #LegalAid #Innovation #hurricanehelene #WesternNC

In the second installment of her AI for Legal Aid series for Thomson Reuters Institute, our CEO Kristen Sonday covers how legal services organizations are leveraging AI to help individuals in need. In one example, Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands used a combination of document automation and AI tools to automatically generate expungement petitions. At a one-day legal clinic, LAS expunged 324 charges for 98 people — work that would have taken significantly longer without automation. In another, Legal Aid of North Carolina is leveraging AI to provide 24/7 access to legal information through a virtual assistant known as the AI Legal Information Assistant (LIA). Available on the organization’s website, LIA answers questions from the public about housing, family law, and consumer rights in plain language, making legal information accessible to those who may not have immediate access to an attorney. Read on to learn how it works! cc: Gavel Zachary Oswald Legal Aid of North Carolina Scheree Gilchrist LawDroid - Generative AI Legal Technology Thomas G. Martin Legal Services Corporation

#Innovation in ACTION!