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Can AI Close the Access to Justice Gap?

Featuring Drew Simshaw, Professor of Law, UNLV

Published June 23, 2026.

AI could make legal help more available to millions of people who cannot afford lawyers. But it could also deepen inequality, leaving some people with inferior AI substitutes while helping powerful law firms become even more powerful.

Stephen Walther talks with Drew Simshaw about whether AI can close the access to justice gap without creating an inequitable two-tiered system of legal services.