Talk Justice: Episode 76

Featured Guests

Scheree Gilchrist is Chief Innovation Officer at Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC). In this strategic role, Gilchrist spearheads the innovation initiatives at LANC, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and efficiency to advance the organization’s vision for an inclusive justice system.  Gilchrist graduated with honors from the University of the West Indies School of Law and holds an LL.M. from Duke Law School. She has been an integral part of the LANC team since 2006, starting as a staff attorney and progressing through various roles within the organization. During her tenure, Gilchrist transitioned from being a supervising attorney to managing attorney of LANC’s Centralized Intake Unit.

Conor Malloy, a Chicago-Kent College of Law graduate, is the Project Director for the ‘Rentervention’ initiative at the Law Center for Better Housing. Conor is an accomplished legal professional committed to process automation, technology-driven legal practices, and significantly improving access to justice through technology. He has served on the tech regulation committee of the Chicago Bar Foundation, as the Vice Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Committee for Modernizing Service of Process, and now on the Illinois Supreme Court’s Task Force on Generative AI and the Judicial Branch. In 2018, the American Bar Association awarded him the Louis M. Brown Award for Legal Access. He also played a vital role in a chatbot project that won the same award in 2021. In 2023, Conor Malloy received the Fastcase50 award for his innovative contributions to democratizing the law through AI, joined the inaugural AI Innovation Lab at the 1871 Innovation Hub to advance this mission, and saw his project, Rentervention, win the Chicago Innovation Award, marking a year of notable achievements in leveraging technology for legal accessibility.

Quinten Steenhuis is a senior housing attorney, systems administrator, and developer at Greater Boston Legal Services, where he has worked since 2008. Quinten has practiced housing and eviction defense law since 2008, and has been a professional programmer and web application developer since 2001. He speaks at area law schools and blogs frequently on the topic of legal technology. In addition to systems administration and individual representation of low income tenants, he currently works on projects addressing social justice and access to justice with technology focusing on the topic of housing and evictions. Quinten is an active member of his local community, serving as an appointed member of the City of Cambridge’s Recycling Advisory Committee, serving on the Access to Justice Commission’s working group on housing through the Justice for All initiative, founding a neighborhood political action group, and serving as the long-time president of a Scrabble club in Somerville, MA. He received his B.Sc. in Logic and Computation with an additional B.Sc. in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University and J.D. from Cornell Law School.

Quinten first began working on technology for social change in 2001 when he was a member of the global Indymedia tech collective. He was a founding member and web developer for the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and a founding members of its radio news magazine that lasted from 2004 until 2013 and was syndicated on the Pacifica network satellite and 9 local radio stations.

Host

As director of innovation design for the Program on Law and Innovation, Caitlin “Cat” Moon designs the J.D. curriculum for PoLI Institute with the goal of empowering students to lead in the innovation of 21st century legal services delivery. Professor Moon also founded and directs the PoLI Institute, which provides interactive post-graduate executive education to legal professionals. She also co-founded and produces the Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI), which brings together experts across legal, technology and other disciplines in collaborative innovation projects

In addition to her roles at Vanderbilt, Moon works with law firms, legal departments and law schools globally to apply the methods and mindsets of human-centered design to re-imagine leadership and legal professional formation and modernize the delivery of legal services. Her current research focuses on innovation leadership and legal professional formation and includes co-creation of a 21st century framework for lawyer competency, the Delta Model. 

Moon maintains an active law license and, before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty, she provided legal counsel and strategic guidance to start-up companies through her Nashville-based legal practice for over 20 years. She serves on the College of Law Practice Management’s Board of Trustees and on the advisory boards of the MIT Computational Law Report and the Justice Technology Association. Moon was recognized in 2016 by the American Bar Association among the inaugural Women in Legal Tech and as a Fastcase 50 honoree. She received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services’ 2017 Janice M. Holder Award, which recognizes a legal professional who “has made significant contributions in advancing the quality of justice statewide by ensuring the legal system is open and available to all.”

Moon holds a B.A. and J.D. from Vanderbilt University, and an M.A. from Western Kentucky University.