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150 changes: 64 additions & 86 deletions src/app/about/page.tsx
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import ThankYou from '../components/ThankYou';
import Link from 'next/link';
import styles from '../css/AboutPage.module.css';

export default function About() {
return (
<div>
<div className="container">
<section className="about-document-assembly-line mt-4">
<h1 className="display-5 text-center mb-4">
About Court Forms Online
</h1>
<p>
Court Forms Online is a free website built by the{' '}
<a href="https://suffolklitlab.org">
Suffolk Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT) Lab
</a>
. It helps you create court forms and other legal forms. In some
cases, we can deliver your forms directly to the court. Lawyers, law
students, designers, and technologists helped turn each form into a
simple to use and guided process. The Lab reviews forms regularly to
keep them up to date.
</p>
<p>
While we consulted with and collaborated with both the Trial Court
and the Appeals Court, Court Forms Online is not a project of the
Massachusetts Court. The Appeals Court has issued a{' '}
<a href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/appeals-court-administrative-order-20-5">
standing order
</a>{' '}
that makes this website an officially approved way to deliver forms
to the Appeals Court.
</p>
<h3>How does it work?</h3>
<p>
We use the free and open source tool{' '}
<a href="https://docassemble.org">Docassemble</a> to ask you simple
step-by-step questions and to turn them into filing-ready PDF
documents for your legal case. You can use the interactive forms on
a desktop computer or a smartphone.
</p>
<p>
Some forms need to be printed and delivered by you. Some forms
include a button that delivers your form securely by email. We are
working on integrating our forms with the Appeals Court electronic
filing system directly. Suffolk LIT Lab delivers forms this way in
Illinois as a{' '}
<a href="https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/docs/efiling/overview">
certified third-party filer.
</a>
</p>
<h3>In other states</h3>
<p>
You can use our free tools to build your own interactive court
forms! Check out the{' '}
<a href="https://suffolklitlab.org/docassemble-AssemblyLine-documentation/">
Document Assembly Line project documentation page
</a>{' '}
to learn how.
</p>
<h3>The Document Assembly Line Project</h3>
<p>
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the{' '}
<a href="https://suffolklitlab.org">Suffolk LIT Lab</a> was just 2
people: and one of us had been hired the day the University campus
shut down. But we were inspired to help the thousands of
Commonwealth citizens who suddenly were locked out of physical
access to lawyers.
</p>
<p>
Our idea was to build dozens of interactive forms that included
guidance and delivered your work directly to the court. Usually
these projects take many months. We worked with agile experts to
develop an "assembly line" style development process so that we
could spread out the work among dozens of volunteers. We called our
project the Document Assembly Line.
</p>
<p>
The response to our call for volunteers was amazing. More than 200
volunteers from around the world helped work on the Document
Assembly Line--representing 11 time zones and 5 continents.
</p>
<p>
We no longer have 200 volunteers, but our lab and Suffolk University
Law students have continued to help the project grow and thrive. Our
work has also helped legal aid programs in Illinois, Louisiana,
Maine, Vermont, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and other states to build
their own form libraries.
</p>
</section>
</div>
<div className={styles.AboutPageContainer + ' container'}>
<h1 className="text-center">About Court Forms Online</h1>
<p>
Court Forms Online is part of the{' '}
<a href="https://suffolklitlab.org/">
Suffolk Legal Innovation &amp; Technology (LIT) Lab
</a>
’s Document Assembly Line project. It helps you complete court forms
other legal documents. Each form has been turned into an interview that
that guides you through the process of completing the form. In some
cases, we can deliver (e-file) your forms directly to the court.
</p>
<p>
The online guided interviews on Court Forms Online have been built by
lawyers, designers, developers, law students, and others. Some are
maintained by the LIT Lab, while others are built and maintained by
other organizations.
</p>
<p>
Court Forms Online started out with input from the Massachusetts Trial
Court and Appeals Court. In 2020 the Appeals Court issued a{' '}
<a href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/appeals-court-administrative-order-20-5">
standing order
</a>
officially approving Court Forms Online for completing and Document
Assembly Line community includes courts and legal legal aid
organizations in Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas,
Vermont, and more.{' '}
<a href="https://assemblyline.suffolklitlab.org/">
Learn more about the Document Assembly Line project.
</a>
</p>
<h2>How does it work?</h2>
<p>
We use a free and open source tool,{' '}
<a href="https://docassemble.org/">Docassemble</a>, to ask step-by-step
questions as part of an interview that guides you through completing the
form. Then we use your answers to assemble complete, ready-to-file PDF
documents.
</p>
<p>
You can use the Court Forms Online on a desktop computer or a
smartphone.
</p>
<p>
Some forms need to be printed and delivered by you. Some forms include
button that delivers your form by email. And other works are integrated
directly with the court’s{' '}
<a href="https://assemblyline.suffolklitlab.org/docs/efiling/overview/">
electronic filing system
</a>
.
</p>
<ThankYou />
<h2>Accessibility</h2>
<p>
The font family used on Court Forms Online is{' '}
<a href="https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/">
Atkinson Hyperlegible
</a>
, developed by the Braille Institute to improve legibility, and
readability—especially for low-vision readers—through clear, distinctive
letters and numbers.
</p>
</div>
);
}
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export default function ThankYou() {
return (
<section className={styles.ThankYouSection + ' container'}>
<section className={styles.ThankYouSection}>
<h2>Thank you</h2>
<p>
The organizations listed below all helped build the first version of
All the organizations listed below contributed to the first version of
Court Forms Online. It would not exist without their help.
</p>
<div
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.AboutPageContainer {
max-width: calc(992px);
}

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