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Dominic Surrao edited this page Oct 6, 2017 · 42 revisions

The goal is to create an online repository of Massachusetts Courts "Lawyer for the Day" programs, and allow easy sharing of that information between organizations.

The first pass of this project will focus on making available Lawyer for the Day information, but in the future can be extended to other legal resources.

To-do list

View the most current to-do list here: https://trello.com/b/CoCoODUu/massachusetts-lawyer-for-the-day-programs

Resources

Sample data: https://www.masslegalservices.org/content/vlp-boston-housing-court-lawyer-day

Open Referral API: https://openreferral.org/

Human Services Data API specification: https://openreferral.org/version-1-1-of-the-human-services-data-api-specification-technical-post/

API Implementation:

  • https://github.com/adopta-agency/open-referral-api (implementation of HSDS v1.1, to be used for this project): This API prototype is a full application. It is a Amazon Aurora (MySQL compliant) database, with the API running on AWS EC2 Linux instance running Apache, coded in PHP 5.3. The prototype is currently going through an overhaul in support of version 1.2. Once done, there will be a live version, as well as a sandbox version. The code for the entire API will be available on Github for forking and download.

Older Implementations

Project Specifications

Required UI fields for data entry, with an example:

Organization Volunteer Lawyer Project

Description A civil legal services program

Program

  • Lawyer for the Day
  • Individual representation

Service

Name:

  • Housing Court Lawyer for the Day - Private
  • Housing Court Lawyer for the Day - Public
  • Probate Court Laywer for the Day - e

Alt Name:

  • Housing Court Lawyer for the Day
  • Housing Court Lawyer for the Day
  • Probate Court Laywer for the Day

Description:

  • Volunteer lawyers help fill out forms and do limited representation
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Eligibility:

Financial -

  • 200% federal poverty level
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Geographical -

  • Boston
  • Boston
  • Cambridge

Age -

  • Any
  • Any
  • Any

Other -

Homeless,

*** Veterans, etc.

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