We need to think from immigrants’ points of view — where they are now, what tech they use, who they trust.
Category: Ideabook
Some more radical thoughts from Denis Weil, provoking lawyers to rethink how they relate to their users to find effective paths toward innovation.
A challenge from Justice Cuellar’s at the ABA Legal Innovation Summit.
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Argument Assistant
An idea for having a document-software plugin (think, for Microsoft Word) that would track its lawyer & law students’ mark-ups of legal documents, learn where the arguments were and what good arguments are, and then use those patterns to make smart recommendations to the lawyer as she is crafting arguments in her document. It could be an encoded-up knowledge bank of what makes for good arguments & logic, baked right into the current workflows of how legal professionals create arguments.
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Legal Reviewer
A tool that would read contracts & legal documents so that you don’t have to. It would boil it down into key things that you should know — the essential conditions, trade-offs, etc.
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Court Companion app
Could we have a tech-based companion for people going through a court process? It could have timing advice, location directions, and other support to make sure the person is prepared for their day in court.
The value of this design would be to coordinate all the resources into a single place — the app. It would assemble and time out the information, and remind people of it.
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Strategy Options Calculator
An idea to allow a person with a legal decision to make to play around with possible variables & the outcomes that would result. It would be a way to see multiple different scenarios, and weigh options before making a decision.
Could we create a collaboration platform & network that would provide a holistic service for a person with a legal problem — so they have all the different kinds of support they need?
A sketchnote of the start of a talk from Stephanie Kimbro, speaking at Univ. of South Carolina Law School about her research on how games & gamification mechanics and motivators could be used to improve the delivery of legal services.s
I’ve been thinking systematically about the suite of tools that we need to be building for better access to justice. I wrote earlier about the different product families — what some of these different camps of tools are. One I’m circling around with some intent is the Triage Tool.
A triage function would help take a person searching for legal remedy, and help them figure out what their condition is called in legal terms and what legal processes are open to them to achieve some kind of resolution.
Other terms for Triage tools: Eligibility-Checkers, Diagnostic Tool, Intake-and-Bucketing.
The main task of the triage tool is collecting essential info from the user, and then matching it with the system’s rules about what terms and paths fit their info.
I’ve been collecting many different examples of tech-based triage tools, and I’ll be publishing a pattern library with a discussion of what the main types of triage tools are, with examples of each. In the meantime, here’s a sketch I made as I start to group together this typology.
Do you know any triage tools that you think work well? Send me links, images, or write-ups — I will include them in my pattern library!