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Utkarsh Saxena
Adalat AI
Adalat AI uses artificial intelligence to reduce judicial delays by streamlining courtroom processes and enabling faster access to justice.
Utkarsh Saxena, co-founder & CEO, has seen the legal system from multiple vantage points. He was a law clerk on the Supreme Court of India, practiced law across courts in India, petitioned the Supreme Court for marriage equality, and worked with government and policy institutions on court reform and reducing delays and backlogs. Utkarsh holds a BA/LLB from the University of Delhi, an LLM from Harvard Law School as an Inlaks scholar, a master’s in international development economics from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is completing a PhD in public policy from the University of Oxford. Before starting his independent practice, he worked as junior counsel in the chambers of Mr. Siddharth Aggarwal, Mr. Akhil Sibal, and Mr. Gopal Subramanium. He has also worked with Dr. Arvind Subramanian in the Chief Economic Adviser’s office at the Ministry of Finance, as well as at the World Bank and the Boston Consulting Group.
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