PLEAC Conference 2026 | Plenary – Recent developments in online legal information

Description

Legal information developed for online use takes many shapes and sizes. This panel brings in leaders who are thinking about how to develop and deliver online legal information, from three different angles: how to survive the AI revolution; the use of guided interviews in helping people navigate a legal process; and how to integrate ethical design thinking when developing community-responsive legal tech tools.

Links:
https://www.cali.org/
https://www.justiceeducation.ca/
https://www.innovation4justice.org/
https://www.cleo.on.ca/en

Speaker Bios:

John Mayer is the Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), a non-profit consortium of US law schools incorporated in 1982 to develop tools and content for legal education.  CALI is the developer of the open-source project A2J Author used by over 8 million people to fill out court forms.  John has a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and has been at CALI since 1994.

Nora Bergh graduated from UBC law in 2013 and was called to the BC Bar in 2014. Nora has focused her legal career to improving access to justice.  As the director of BC programs at the Justice Education Society she oversees a range of programs that help British Columbians understand their rights.

Sarah Mauet (she/her) is an award-winning technologist, researcher, designer, and educator whose work centers on social impact technology and justice-system innovation. Sarah has more than 15 years of experience developing human-centered, trauma-informed solutions for governments, courts, hospitals, universities, startups, and legal service providers. Since joining Innovation for Justice in 2020, she has led justice-system technology initiatives that focus on improving access to justice and strengthening legal empowerment.