Legal Help Workflows

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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

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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We are deciding which of these to take on first, and what a tool would have to do. If you work on one of these, or you have lived through one, tell us how it goes in your county and where technology would change the result. You can leave your name or stay anonymous.