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Development roadmap for the Document Assembly Line

The Document Assembly Line is under continuous development. Our goal with this roadmap is to share our plans and priorities for the Document Assembly Line with the community.

Current priorities​

Grant-funded deliverables​

In partnership with Legal Services Vermont, funded by a Technology Initiative Grant from the Legal Services Corporation, the LIT Lab is working on the following:

  • Managing Docassemble hosting for at least three jurisdictions, including Vermont, by January 2025
  • Creating a flexible, general-purpose e-filing tool that allows e-filing documents prepared outside of Docassemble interviews, by September 2025
  • Expanding e-filing beyond Massachusetts and Illinois to new jurisdictions, including Vermont, by September 2025
  • Supporting our existing e-filing code and staying current with third-party changes. Planned updates include:
    • ECF 5 compliance
    • Making it possible to separate e-filing configuration code from Docassemble interview code
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Like all our work on the Document Assembly Line, our work toward grant-funded deliverables is also subsidized by—and would not be possible without—our other funding partners, including the State Justice Institute and the Massachusetts Trial Court.

Additional priorities​

  • Creating an ongoing process for shaping this development roadmap with input from the community, funding partners, etc.
  • Updating this documentation website to better serve Document Assembly Line users and the project's needs
  • Ongoing outreach to courts and legal aid organizations

Long-term goals​

Our ambitious, long-term goals for the Document Assembly Line are:

  • Establish a national document assembly and e-filing infrastructure for courts and legal-aid organizations
  • Foster a community of courts and legal aid organizations building access-to-justice tools using the Document Assembly Line

Releases​

Versions and release notes can be found in the Document Assembly Line GitHub repositories: