Updated 4/1/2019 Do you have a legal tech hackathon coming up? Here’s something that might help you get started. Four small (under 200 lines) Docassemble skeleton projects that you can adapt for your use. A simple chatbot with branching logic that Read more…
If you work in legal aid, something that you have no control over and you may not even be aware of is impacting both the quality of advice your client base receives and the reputation of your organization. It has Read more…
Updated August 2, 2019 Are you a legal aid user who was inspired by the great Docassemble projects on display at the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology Conference? Florida Justice Technology Center, Community.Lawyer, HelpSelf Legal, myself, and Upsolve all Read more…
Although I understood the underlying datastructures, Docassemble groups are a concept that took me some time to wrap my head around. I hope you can use this as a guide that will help you understand the why and how of Read more…
A common computer science concept, the Class, is a key benefit of Docassemble over other document assembly platforms. But when I work with a new Docassemble learner, or evangelize Docassemble to users of other platforms, Classes and Objects are the Read more…
I’m going to share a little technique I have used to keep some of my guided interview logic externally. It’s something I designed just for myself to save time, so the implementation I’m sharing is quite rough around the edges. Read more…
After working on the Massachusetts Eviction Defense Tool with Rina Padua for the last 10 months, I learned a lot. Some of it was from helpful mentors like Marc Lauritsen and Caroline Robinson, who have been building interviews like this Read more…
I had the pleasure of spending Friday at Docacon presenting to and learning from 30 Docassemble users from around the country—and I learned so much from all of them. It was exciting to see so many people building amazing projects. Read more…
I had a great time learning from so many Docassemble users at Docacon 2018 this past week. I think they will be put up on the Docacon website soon, but I wanted to share my slides just in case. I’m Read more…
I spent the week at Suffolk Law School’s Clinnnovation conference, followed by a great summit where we discussed how to train the next generation of lawyers to code. Imagining a group of excited new coders made me think about the Read more…