Here’s a small sampling of the projects our students have worked on since the Tech Clinic’s start in 2012.
Incarceration Transparency
Incarceration Transparency is a project that tracks conditions of confinement in Louisiana prisons, with a special emphasis on how and why inmates are dying in our jails. The project was created and supervised by Loyola College of Law professor Andrea Armstrong. Our Class of 2019 students gathered the data through numerous public requests, digitized the data, and created the website.
Louisiana Civil Navigator
A joint project with the Lagniappe Law Lab, Louisiana Bar Foundation, and legal technologists around the country, Louisiana Civil Navigator is web app which uses artificial intelligence to analyze legal problems and guide potential clients to legal resources. Our Class of 2018 students conducted countless interviews with pro se and modest means litigants to determine how they described their legal problems and what their actual legal needs were. They then used this data to train the AI model which forms the backend of the web app.
LALawBook Series
The LALawBook series of apps collects the Louisiana Criminal, Civil, and Civil Procedure laws into small, mobile-first apps. The apps are regularly updated with data from the Huey scraper and are free and open source. Get LACrimBook, LACivBook, and LACivProBook by downloading the Progressive Web App on this page The source code for each project is available on Github. Project By: Mark Florman, Class of 2013 and Judson Mitchell.
Interactive Decision Tree
A fork of Warren Harrison‘s excellent Interactive Decision Tree which allows potential clients to self-screen their claims and to be directed to useful legal resources. The demo builds off of the work of students Shannon Jung ’13 and Edem Tsiagbey ’13. More information about the project is available here. Project By:
DocketMinder
DocketMinder is an application which monitors changes to the Orleans Criminal Court Docket Master. It allows practitioners to stay informed about the latest activity in their cases. Project by Nick Zotti (’13) and Michael Tassin (’13).