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Background & Inspiration
Inspired by Joshua Browder’s [DoNotPay] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/08/09/legal-robot-helps-newly-evicted-file-for-housing-free-of-charge/) chatbot, we decided to create a chatbot lawyer that helps people fill out protective orders in Harris County, TX.
A protective order is a court order that protects you from someone who has been violent or threatened to be violent.
While this order can be helpful, it can also take an inconvenient amount of time and travel to obtain which could prove fatal for those in domestic violence situations. Legal aid lawyers are spending time walking their clients through the process when they could spend it on more difficult cases.
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