The Document Assembly Line volunteer program aims to train and organize volunteers to build, translate, verify, and maintain digital guided forms that everyday people can use to fill out critical legal forms online. You can see some of these on Court Forms Online. They would love your help!

 

Digital forms—online guided interviews—are a proven way to bridge that gap for many, helping clarify forms and processes with access from home, yet those digital forms remain scarce. During COVID-19 the Document Assembly Line project (DAL) at Suffolk LIT Lab, in Massachusetts, ran a massive volunteer effort, and now partners with courts and organizations in numerous states to provide free online forms. They are currently looking to grow their new volunteer initiative to increase their reach across the US.

 

Sample volunteer activities and roles:

• Organize other volunteers: Strengthen their volunteer organizing efforts.

• Legal subject matter experts: From state-specific legal experts to law students, folks from the community who can make sure their forms are legally accurate.

• Build and update forms: Help them make new forms and work through their backlog of interview improvements and updates to take their existing forms to the next level.

• Translators: Review translations for accuracy.

• Other roles: They need to bring many skills and perspectives to the table to reach their goals. From local community organizers to bug hunters to copy editors to usability testers and beyond, they want you!