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Automating a grading book with Microsoft Flow / Power Automate

I want my students to submit weekly reflections, but it also needs to be easy for me to collect those. My solution is a Microsoft Form for each week, an Excel Workbook in OneDrive, and Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) to glue the two together. First, I created a Microsoft Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 5 months5 months ago
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Access to Justice

Do you need a custom legal app?

Legal aid agencies have been building apps for decades. More law firms are getting in on it, with apps like UpSolve for bankruptcy and Wilson Sonsini’s app to help firms comply with California privacy laws gaining news and attention. Should you build your own guided interview or interactive legal app? Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 1 year1 year ago
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Basic elements of an interactive legal application

So, you want to create your first interactive legal application (sometimes also called guided interview or wizard). Congratulations! Whether your app is the next TurboTax for drafting wills or an access to justice app for pro se debtors, it helps to understand the components of your app. That’s true whether Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 1 year1 year ago
Access to Justice

Making MADE: User-centered Design in Practice

MADE is a wizard-like online interview that helps tenants who are being evicted. It can be completed on a smartphone or desktop computer completely without the help of a lawyer. It covers 300 questions and it educates tenants about their rights, helps tenants file paperwork, and sends tenants automated text-message Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 years ago
Access to Justice

A Legal Hackathon Toolkit

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 gives advice to the user. Run this interview A demonstration Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 years2 years ago
Do something great
Access to Justice

Get started with Docassemble

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 participated in the conference and showed off some great projects, Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 years4 months ago
DocAssemble

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 groups and get started using them in practice. I hope 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 concept most likely to draw a blank look or create 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. I have done this in both HotDocs and Docassemble, (I 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 for years; some from presentations at other conferences I’ve attended Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 years3 years ago

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Another day, another (2 months) of eviction protection under the CDC #evictionmoratorium. We updated and translated our tool to help tenants learn if they qualify under @potus's new executive order extending the protection! https://t.co/8hNjhHvJOm
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What's a non-technical term you would use for a legal tool that provides not just field-filling but also triage to the right form, guidance, and advanced support and help? Portal? We call this "level 4" in our maturity model https://t.co/n872bS5OR8 but that's not too catchy.
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