What we build
Interviewing, testing, writing problem sets, judging, mapping how a process actually runs, sitting with someone while they try to use the thing. Pick one and we will find you something small enough to finish.
The lanes
Suffolk runs a chatbot for student questions. It gets things wrong often enough to be worth testing properly, and finding out where needs no engineering background at all.
What helping looks like
Fill in a short form each time you catch it being wrong. We collect them and work out which gaps matter.
The catch
The fastest way to do real work in your first month.
Teams ship a working legal tool in a single evening from a cold start. Seven teams entered the first one. The winners were two first-year evening students who built a document system that flagged contradictions across a client file.
What helping looks like
Enter it, judge it, write the problem sets, or run a track.
The catch
We want it bigger this year, and open to other schools.
Most people in civil court have no lawyer. Intake and drafting are the parts of that a law student can move.
What helping looks like
Interview the people doing intake, map one workflow end to end, draft the forms.
The catch
Access to justice and building things turn out to be the same lane.
Ongoing simulated matters that give students repetitions on real legal work before anyone lets them do it for real.
What helping looks like
Nothing to do yet. Join the roster and you will hear about it first.
The catch
In design. We will say more when there is something to try.
The LIT Lab's Document Assembly Line is open source, and it puts mobile court forms in front of people who cannot get to a courthouse. Over twenty thousand have been downloaded.
What helping looks like
Test a form, report what breaks, or write a new one.
The catch
Your work ships to people using it the same month.
Getting in
No application and no screening. Join on SUConnect and tell us which of these sounds interesting.