A free reference legal professionals build together: rules, judges' preferences and comments for each court, one search across all of them and a directory of providers rated by peers.
Business context
What the client needed
LegalBevy gathers the rules of civil procedure, local rules and judges' courtroom preferences for US courts, sorted by state, county and court. Attorneys and their staff add what they know, comment, mark what helped and find process servers, videographers and skip tracers their peers have rated.
Before a hearing in an unfamiliar court, a lawyer needs its local rules and what its judges expect, and that knowledge usually lives in colleagues' heads. The client wanted a free wiki where legal professionals across the country collect it court by court, discuss it and find the service providers their peers trust.
User stories
What people do with it
- As an attorney before a hearing in a new county, I want the court's local rules and the judge's preferences on one page, so that I walk in prepared.
- As a paralegal, I want to add what I learned in a courtroom and see which notes helped others, so that the next filing goes right the first time.
- As an attorney, I want process servers and skip tracers my peers have rated, so that I hire one I can trust.
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Key challenges
What made it hard
- 01A map of the courts. Rules hang on the court structure - state, county, court - so a page holds exactly the rules and judges of one courtroom.
- 02Knowledge from the crowd that stays useful. Members comment on rules and courtroom pages and mark what helped, so the notes that work rise to the top.
- 03One search box for everything. A rule number, a judge, a county or a question: Elasticsearch finds it across the whole wiki.
Results
What we delivered
Court pages
Rules of civil procedure, local rules and judges for each court, from the state down.
Judges' preferences
Courtroom notes from attorneys and staff, with comments and helpful votes.
Peer-reviewed providers
Process servers, videographers and skip tracers rated by legal professionals.
Contacts and chat
Members keep their colleagues, message them and pass on a provider's contact.
Technology
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