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Gathering repeated information: working with Docassemble Groups

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 years2 years ago
DocAssemble

Object-oriented Programming for Document Assembly Developers

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 years2 years ago
Access to Justice

Separating interview logic from the law

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago
Access to Justice

7 Lessons for building user-friendly guided interviews

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago
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A year with Docassemble

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years2 years ago
Access to Justice

Notes from Docacon 2018

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago
Active Directory

Make vs Buy, or the Not Invented Here Syndrome

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…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago
Legal Tech

Hands on with the new System Center Updates Publisher (2018)

One of the most helpful features of Microsoft System Center is the ability to centrally manage updates. Yet System Center doesn’t include a way to manage third party updates natively. That’s where System Center Updates Publisher has come in. It’s Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago
Access to Justice

A tutorial for Docassemble

Quick post before the Vermont Law School legal technology conference: Rina Padua and I put together a comprehensive tutorial for Docassemble to help someone new get started with document assembly. It’s a great example that shows how a lawyer can Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years2 years ago
Active Directory

ADFS error while using new SharePoint Migration Tool on ADFS 2012 R2

Today I ran into an error when I tried to use Microsoft’s new SharePoint Migration Tool for Office 365. We use ADFS which is running on Windows Server 2012 R2. When I tried signing in, I received the unspecific ““An Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago

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Really pleased to share our @SuffolkLITLab-led https://t.co/xEJVtKkHMG project to #LSCITC. If you want to replicate our work in your own state--please reach out! We're actively looking to expand and train others in our process as we make the project more modular for other states
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