Talk Justice: Episode 97
Can Tech Simplify Pro Bono?
Legal experts share the impactful tech projects they have contributed to, and the struggles and successes of getting volunteer lawyers to engage with tech tools on Talk Justice. Oswald’s project at Legal Aid Society uses automation and AI to handle record expungements more efficiently. Seely has seen great success from a project that allows people with medical debt from Chattanooga’s Erlanger Hospital to engage in alternative dispute resolution fully online.
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Guest Speakers
Zachary Oswald
Zac Oswald is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and a 2013 cum laude graduate of University of Miami School of Law. Zac joined Legal Aid in 2015 as a Staff Attorney and currently serves as the Senior Deputy Director of Client Services. Zac received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services New Advocate of the Year award in 2016 and the Housing and Equality Alliance of Tennessee’s Fred Cloud & Tracey McCartney Award in 2022.
Linda Warren Seely
Linda Seely us a Tennessee lawyer. She served as the Director of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section in Washington, DC until May of 2021 when began at Butler Snow as Pro Bono Counsel. She was appointed to the Tennessee Bar Association Access to Justice Committee in 2021 as Chair and to the Tennessee Administrative Offices of the Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission in 2022. She was recognized for her work in the Access to Justice field receiving the President’s Award in 2024.
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Cat Moon
As Professor of the Practice and Co-Director of the Program on Law & Innovation and the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab, all at Vanderbilt Law School, 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...