- Project Status: Ongoing
- Other Collaborators: Code for America, Clean Slate Initiative, Code for KC
- Academic Collaborators: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
The Project is designed to assist individuals who may be eligible for expungement of criminal offenses but who cannot afford the normal charges for a lawyer.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Ongoing
- Academic Collaborators: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
This project examines compliance with privacy and data protection laws, as well as well-balanced policies, within the context of ‘smart cities’.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Ongoing
- Other Collaborators: Google (Technology), Microsoft (Technology), Schema.org (Technology)
This project (in conjunction with the Legal Specification Language Development Project) involves two main objectives: (i) to define a standard schema that online legal help providers can use to encode the content on their websites so that it is more structured and machine-readable, and (ii) working with the Internet search-providers to adopt these standards and create more directed, correct, and actionable search results design.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Ongoing
- Other Collaborators: Consensys Technologies (Technology)
Using computer code and blockchain technology, the Smart Contracts project will be exploring a range of contracts capable of being rendered "smart."
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Reed Smith (Law Firm), Mark Potkewitz
This Project examines a range of automated techniques to assess compliance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) through analysis of all relevant data and information pertaining to a company (or a department within a company or another legal entity).
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: KCura (Technology)
Agency disclosure and transparency allow citizens and government actors to monitor administrative records and decision-making and, in theory, further a more democratically responsive government.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Kansas City Land Bank, The Code for America KC Brigade, Brent Never (Bloch School, UMKC)
Currently tailored to the Kansas City, Missouri region this Project addresses the issue of vacant, abandoned and blighted properties, a significant challenge for many municipalities.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
The development of a widely used Legal Specification Language (LSL), would have several advantages, including the direct coding of both private legal instruments, such as commercial and financial contracts, and public legal rules, such as regulations and legislation.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Bryan Calkins (Great Basin College), Lee Rom (Center on Rural Innovation)
- Academic Collaborators: Great Basin College
This project will test the concept of changing the way we determine land boundaries away from individual, unconnected surveys and towards a method that is anchored in GPS coordinates.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Tony Lai (Stanford), Len Zandrow (UMass)
- Academic Collaborators: Stanford Law School, University of Massachusetts School of Law, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
Through networks of university-based entrepreneurship law clinics in the US and Europe, and a US-wide network of legal incubators supporting entrepreneurial lawyers, the LTL Community has access to a collective set of data on entrepreneurs and start-ups and their barriers to innovation.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Administrative Data Research Facility, Sustainable Economies Law Center, Qualtrix, Clio
- Academic Collaborators: Albany Law School, Berkeley, Brooklyn Law School, Cardozo Law, Drexel, Nebraska College of Law , Northwestern University School of Law, New York University, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
This project will establish a data analytics platform so that data held by law clinics can be used to generate insights into existing barriers to entrepreneurship and how better to support entrepreneurs. The project will place special emphasis on barriers to entrepreneurship for currently disadvantaged individuals, groups, and communities.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Consensys Technologies (Technology), Kansas City Government, MO, The Code for America KC Brigade, Jo Elliott (Penn State)
- Academic Collaborators: Missouri Western State University
Currently tailored to the Kansas City, Missouri region, this tool aims to assist businesses, individuals, and governments by establishing more efficient processes for granting multiple permits to small business, tradesmen, real estate developers, and other applicants.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: HotDocs Developer, Lawhelp Interactive
- Academic Collaborators: University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
The LLC Formation suite of tools includes checklists, templates, transmittal letters and other supporting documents to complete the state-specific formation requirements of LLCs, which are the vehicle most frequently chosen by small-business entrepreneurs.
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- Written by: Super User
- Project Status: Past Projects
- Other Collaborators: Neota Logic (Legal Technology)
- Academic Collaborators: Albany Law School, Berkeley, Brigham Young University Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Cardozo Law, Drexel, Duke University School of Law, Nebraska College of Law , Northwestern University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law
The Founders Terms Sheet Generator is designed for start-up companies to be utilized in their initial formation stage. The generator contains informational inputs to be completed by the founders as well as educational components and examples on pivotal issues.
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- Written by: Super User