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Access-to-justice angle: AI as a tool, not a lawyer. What changed at the kitchen table when statutes, deadlines, and templates became readable.
Access to justice is not only about lawyers. It is about whether the rule book is readable in the language and time the user has.
AI did not replace counsel. It read the statute aloud, kept track of deadlines, and drafted the next sentence so a person without a law degree could finish it.
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