Legal Help Workflows

End-to-end scenarios where AI can help people with specific legal problems. Each workflow has a shared package of agendas, standards, and blueprints being developed by a cohort.

Housing

Where can we build tech-powered workflows to help people facing eviction, living with repairs their landlord will not make, arguing over a lease, or at risk of losing their home?

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Eviction Notice Defect Spotting

Help a legal aid worker read a tenant's eviction notice, flag the defects in it against statute, and turn those flags into defenses and a court response.

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Answering an Eviction Case

Help a tenant who has been served file an answer in time, with the defenses their situation supports, the fee waiver, and a jury demand if they want one.

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Problems With Living Conditions in Your Rental

Help a tenant living with conditions the landlord will not fix put the request on the record, use the rent remedy their state allows without risking eviction, and keep their home.

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Motion to Set Aside an Eviction Default

Help a tenant who lost an eviction case by default put together the motion to reopen it, serve and file it in time, and know what to say at the hearing.

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Reasonable Accommodation Demand Letter

Help a tenant with a disability ask their landlord to change a rule that they cannot follow, in a letter that sets out the request and the law behind it.

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Jury Instructions for an Eviction Trial

Help a tenant or an advocate propose a correct set of jury instructions for the trial, drawn from the approved pattern set, with every change marked and the contested ones put to a lawyer.

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Reviewing a Settlement Offer Before an Eviction Hearing

Help a tenant handed a settlement before an eviction hearing understand what it means, whether they can pay it, and what help is available before they sign.

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Debt collection

Where can we build tech-powered workflows to help people sued over a debt, facing garnishment, claiming an exemption, dealing with medical bills, or correcting what a credit report says?

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Debt Lawsuit Documentation Review

Help a person check whether a debt collector, who has sued a consumer, has met all the legal requirements to bring a case and possibly get a default judgment.

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Answering a Debt Collection Lawsuit

Help a person sued over a debt answer in time, see the defenses available to them, and reach a settlement or a hearing rather than a default judgment.

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Reentry

Where can we build tech-powered workflows to help people clearing a record, asking a court to waive the debt they owe, getting a license back, finding housing, or looking for work after incarceration?

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Expungement Eligibility Screening

Help people with criminal records determine whether they qualify for expungement or record-clearing remedies under their state's laws.

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Waiving Fines and Fees After a Criminal Case

Help a person who owes court debt after a criminal case ask for it to be waived or reduced, with the presumptions established, the hardship documented, and the argument ready for the hearing.

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Criminal Records Data Assembly and Analysis

Help a person leaving incarceration, and the advocate working with them, assemble what their record actually says across the courts and agencies that hold it.

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Public benefits

Where can we build tech-powered workflows to help people applying for a benefit, proving they still qualify, renewing it, answering an overpayment notice, or appealing a denial? This cohort is the newest, and medical records review is the first workflow in front of it.

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Medical Records Review

Help an advocate gather, organize, and read a client's medical records to prove the fact the legal matter turns on, with the client's health information protected throughout.

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Shared infrastructure

Shared infrastructure

These are the pieces every area depends on, built once and used across all of them.

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Voice AI Intake and Triage

Help people who call a legal help hotline get screened, triaged, and routed to the right service through a voice-based AI assistant that works alongside human staff.

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Brief Help Legal Q&A

Help people who describe a legal problem get accurate, jurisdiction-specific guidance, next steps, and connections to services.

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