Law and Logic.
Last month, I was in Turin, Italy to present a paper about Lemma Legal’s work on legal intake, covering a tool we built to help Virginia Legal Aid Society, Louisiana’s statewide legal help navigator, and Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service. I also helped run a workshop on AI and Access to Justice. (By the […]
Lemma owner Quinten Steenhuis recently wrote about a project to make it easier to edit Docassemble interviews in a guided, graphical process, without the tradeoffs of tools like Gavel, AfterPattern, ClioDraft, and similar tools. Highlights: In this post, Quinten introduces the next generation of Weaver — a new visual editor for Docassemble that blends no-code […]
Lemma’s new WorkflowDocs product brings together the power of LegalServer’s case management data, Docassemble, and four core features for one low, monthly price:
We’re building a phone-intake AI voice bot that is connected for Virginia Legal Aid Society (VLAS) with Twilio, Pipecat, and FastAPI (Github). Without proper safeguards, this system could be exploited by attackers who go after our backend directly. That opens the door to unauthorized traffic, inflated usage costs, and degraded service quality for our users. […]
Lemma Legal just wrapped up a 2 year HUD-funded project with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri to build Missouri Tenant Help. As part of the project, we built an experimental intake screening tool that combines simple rules with GPT-4 to help users find out if they qualify for help before they call the program staff. […]
In August 2022, buses from the southern border[1] brought an influx of migrants to Chicago, mostly from the Caribbean, Central, and South America. The Resurrection project (TRP) was ready to help, but its resources for one-on-one assistance were already stretched thin. For more than 30 years, TRP has provided community-based services for a mostly immigrant […]
I’m happy to welcome both Jim and Kelly to the Lemma Legal team. Kelly joins us from the cannabis compliance space, where she helped deliver software projects on-time and on budget. She dove right in to help us deliver the tenant solutions at https://motenanthelp.org and has hit the ground running with Docassemble. Kelly is based […]
Lemma Legal is thrilled to announce Rami Lorca as our new Full Stack Developer. The addition of Rami Lorca as Lemma Legal’s second full-time employee will expand Lemma Legal’s ability to help clients with their document automation needs and strengthen our ability to help with design, web development, and user experience. Rami’s technical skill set […]
Overview Once you get Docassemble up and running, securing it doesn’t have to be hard. It’s a matter of: Understanding what kind of risks you want to protect against Having a backup and continuity plan Protection of user data with encryption and strong passwords Keeping the underlying server operating system up to date Keeping the […]
Here are 5 ways that generative AI can safely help in the world of document automation.