While the “access to justice gap” looms large in conversations around legal technology, Georgia attorneys working on the ground level to meet the needs of underserved legal consumers aren’t seeing the kind of technological advances that many law firms and corporate legal departments employ in their private practice.

Longtime DeKalb County public defender Claudia Saari explained the access to justice gap to a crowd of about 75 attorneys at the State Bar of Georgia’s Convocation on Professionalism.