Is the Legal System Every Lawyer’s Biggest Enemy? ft. Legal Futurist Sateesh Nori
Between the Briefs · 2026-05-28 · 39 min
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Lawyers can (technically) be the superheroes society needs them to be but the legal system simply doesn’t allow it. With a broken system, flawed legal aid and crumbling structures, justice gets the short end of the stick - but can AI be part of the solution? In this episode of Between the Briefs, hosts Adrian Cea and Joe Stephens welcome Sateesh Nori, Chief Legal Futurist at LawDroid and Senior Research Fellow at NYU School of Law, to explore how justice can truly be democratized. What You’ll Learn: How to quantify the access to justice crisis Why AI is uniquely suited to legal work The triage bottleneck and how chatbots solve it Why housing court illustrates systemic failure How to reframe legal services as a utility, not a luxury The critical gap in law school curriculum Right now, millions are disenfranchised, without access to the legal care they deserve. Tune in to find out how legal technology is tipping the scales.