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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, 5 yearsJune 28, 2018 ago
Access to Justice

Initial version of HotDocs Component Generator is now available

The HotDocs Component Generator for Google Sheets is now available in the Chrome Web Store. This is an evolution of a few techniques I’ve discussed on this blog that is more user friendly than PowerShell and doesn’t require you to learn JavaScript. Read more about it here: http://nonprofittechy.com/projects/hotdocs-computation-generator/.

By Quinten Steenhuis, 5 years ago
Form Automation

The automation's the thing

Without true automation, guided interviews that produce legal forms are too difficult to justify the learning curve. As I have stated on this blog before, I am working on updating the Greater Boston Legal Services Eviction Defense System, a tool that helps lawyers and nonlawyer advocates complete legal forms for Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 6 years ago
Screenshot of Google Form to add a Court to GBLS Eviction Defense System.
Access to Justice

Google Forms Workflow to Replace Hotdocs Overlay Answer files

Do you maintain Hotdocs guided interviews on LHI? Here’s one way to keep a Hotdocs guided interview up to date: use a Google Form to let users across the jurisdiction submit updates to a spreadsheet, and then use Google Apps Script to generate a Hotdocs computation from the user submissions. The computation Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 6 years ago
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The WriteClearly Google Docs add-on is now available to the public

The WriteClearly team at Urban Insight has finished work on the public version of the Google Docs add-on. WriteClearly is a plain language tool. It helps lawyers write documents that most people can understand. I worked on a draft version of this at the TIG Hackathon this past January. Check Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 6 years ago
Add-On

WriteClearly: Developing a Google Apps Add-on to Promote Plain Language in the Legal Community

I recently was sent by my employer, Greater Boston Legal Services, to a legal technology hackathon at the TIG 2017 conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our team created a tool that helps legal aid lawyers do a better job of writing for the general public. Statistics show that the average reading level Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 6 years ago
Add-On

Randomized Meal Planner

A few years ago I was home with my son several days a week, and I was in charge of most of our family’s meals. I had developed a library of recipes that I turned to again and again–nothing fancy, but meals that I could make and our family enjoyed. Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 7 years ago
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