Legal Aid Hackathon2017

Legal Services CorporationTechnology Initiative Grants Conference

The first ever hackathon at the LSC TIG Conference.

Develop open source solutions to improve access to justice.

31 Participants

At Conference & Remotely

7 projects

WriteClearly GoogleDoc Addon

Legal Checkup Tool

● Develop a tool in Drupal which allows users to get an overall legal needs checkup

● Use existing features and modules where possible● Flexibility - tool can be used for an overall assessments or

for to explore specific areas● We used a form builder and attached a micro content

builder to individual questions, visibility based on specific answers

● We were able to integrate the two systems by the end of the Hackathon with limited user interface.

Legal Checkup Tool

Drupal Module for Houston.AI

Drupal Module for Houston.AI

Legal Aid Grants Open Data Standard

We need consistent community-driven data standards so that grant attribute data can be shared.

Knowledge Management with Drupal

We will create a secure, password protected document library for use by legal aid professionals for sharing case related documents (and other media) with other legal aid advocates and pro bono attorneys.

Legal Services Web Traffic Analysis Dashboard

Build a classifier using machine learning to be able to categorize web pages by National Subject Matter Index (NSMI)

Analyze 5 years of web traffic data to study patterns

Compare with relevant publicly available dataset such as divorce rates, unemployment, evictions, etc.

Justice Hub

A social network & hub aimed to aid in the identification, prevention, mitigation and solving of justice issues that affect our communities.

drupal.openadvocate.org