A LEGAL-TECH INITIATIVE

A Virtual Legal Advocacy AppProject Theme: Law, Technology, Justice, Governance, Democracy

Project Slogan: “Rule of Law at Every Door’’

RULE OF LAW AT EVERY DOOR A LEGAL-TECH

INITIATIVE

Project Members:

1. Syeda Nazmur Siha Muna (Present student of LLB (Hons), University of London International Programmes & Intern Bangladesh Legal Aid & Services Trust)

2. Saimum Reza Talukder (Lecturer, Department of Law, east West University & Advocate, District Court, Dhaka).

3. Shoaib Bin Noor (Present student of Computer Science & Engineering Department, Islamic University of Technology)

Our Project Overview: We want to have a sovereign country where there is equality before

law, equal subjection of all classes to law, equity is everywhere to stop arbitrariness and abuse of powers, and there by the rights and liberty of every citizen, an individual is protected.

It can only be done by spreading rule of law at the door of every one, making it firmly benefactor to each and every person of a country to stop unjust activities, power abuse, crime, corruption, unfairness, illegality, wrongdoing & many more.

It is necessary to make ‘Rule of Law’ accessible, possible, intelligible & predictable to everyone for making a developed future for a nation.

Our Project is a ‘Legal-Tech’ initiative. We want build up a legal app containing legal information, legal function ,legal help, Imminent legal guide and Virtual law firm based on technology which will create a completely new & diverse era of legal functioning.

Our initiative is to change the prejudice notion and create a new dimension by making legal function getting merged with technology. Henceforth we may hope to have compatibility in the 21st century.

Our Project & Vision 2021:

LAW +TECHNOLOGY+AVAILABILITY OF LEGAL FUNCTION= “A LEGAL-TECH INITIATIVE’’ GAL TECH INITIATIVE’’

Social Problem to be Addressed:The social problems we are addressing are:

The disproportionate and discriminatory application of Rule of Law

Limited scope for access to justice.

Complicated access to legal practitioners.

Communication gap between legal practitioners and general people.

Absence of easy mechanism to get legal advice in emergency situation.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS TO BE ADDRESSED

Limited scope for access to justice.

The disproportionate and discriminatory application of Rule of Law

Complicated access to legal practitioners.

Communication gap between legal practitioners and general people.

Absence of easy mechanism to get legal advice in emergency situation.

THE PROJECT:

LEGAL SECTOR(LEGAL

PRACTITIONERS)

MASS PEOPLE & CLIENTS

TECHNO

LOGY

LEGAL-TECH INITIATIVE

A.THE CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT: This is a legal tech initiative with the

motive to provide information about legal remedies, legal system of Bangladesh and legal practitioners, to the common people. This is also a 24 hours emergency legal advocacy and consultancy system. Our aim is to merge law with technology so that people can have access to legal aid (counseling and professional legal support) whosoever & wheresoever they need.

B.PROPOSITION OF THE PROJECT:

Our initiative is to build up a “Virtual Legal Advocacy App (VLAA)”. Our initiative is to provide common help basically to the general mass lawyers. So taking in to accout everyone’s common understanding & as a tribitute our pride, our mother language we want to build the app basically in Bangla. We will focus on two categories, such as: 1. Lawyers and 2. Common people who need legal aid. Our prime focus will be to enhance availability of the legal practitioners in front of common people through online who need it. We want to change the traditional prejudice of law practice notion where people have to take so many hassles to reach at the door of the Legal practitioners. We want to provide that care easily available to everyone.

C.TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT:

who need it. We want to change the traditional prejudice of law practice notion where people have to take so many hassles to reach at the door of the Legal practitioners. We want to provide that care easily available to everyone

1.How It Will Work to Provide Legal Information:

It will help clients to get access to all kind of legal information. All they need to it to install app free of cost and directly go through it. They will not need any User ID or password. We will include information about different Legal terms and terminologies, rights of the citizens, constitutional duties and responsibilities of the citizens, overview of the civil and criminal court system, brief information about how to file a civil and criminal case, catalogues of local lawyers (target is to make the catalogues on each upazilla or police station or ward basis), information on important contact numbers such as contact numbers of government organizations, human rights organizations, international human rights organizations etc.

2.How It will Help to Get Clients Online:

As it is based upon Content management System, it will let legal practitioners to have promotion in a larger way at a lowest cost, which will help them getting client through this app & enable them to build up their Law firm via online app, which will pave the way of Online legal advising, an another practicing field. They can add contents about their law firm, attorneys, customize the look of the app, deal directly with clients, and sending legal notifications.He will get access to a back-end CMS that walks you through the set up. Set up is easy and straightforward.This app will include these components:Who We Are: This is where the app lists the service provider’s attorneys, counsel, their contact information and their practice areas.Where We Are: This shows his office or offices on Google Maps.What We Do: The list of his practice areas & qualification.Notifications: He can send notifications to clients — anything from appointment reminders to firm news.My Notes: Users can make and store notes here.My Profile: The client inputs information here.

The clients can report an abuse or human rights violation through pre-set up tabs like murder, extortion, land grabbing, domestic violence, cyber-crimes. These tabs will have their sub-tabs as well with detailed list of different crimes.It is necessary to set this all up in the CMS, where the lawyer will start with a tab labeled “My Firm Profile.” There, the lawyer can enter basic information about the firm, add a description, and upload a logo. You then go the “Address” tab and enter the addresses for each of your firm’s offices. This provides the information for Google Maps to show his location.The next step should be to create “Categories,” which are his firm’s practice areas. From there, he will add each of his attorneys. As he does, he associates the attorney with the appropriate practice areas. He can include an attorney bio and photo.There will be also a tab for adding clients. This allows him to set them up with a password.The last tab is for sending notifications. Simply select who to direct it to, fill out the information, schedule it, He will complete the procedure. There will be a tab on the profile of the service provider named “Appointment’’. If anybody appoints him, he will mark it ‘Appointed’.There will be a push massaging system. There will also be Attorney App Sharing system which will also allow his client base to share his attorney app via Facebook, Twitter, Text or Email.

• Complain Tab

There will also be a system of ‘ATTORNEY FAN WALL’ which will create a conversation with his own "Fan Wall" for you his FIRM. Clients can post and discuss issues.There will be a ‘Review System’. Clients will have the opportunity to review the service.

Prototype DemonstrationWill help to visualize how the application will work

Home page

1. The home page of the app will contain normal purpose of the app and current condition of our state.

Prototype DemonstrationWill help to visualize how the application will work

Get Law Assistance tab

2. The third tab “Get Law Assistance” will contain two buttons. One for the lawyers and another one for the victims or general people.

Prototype DemonstrationWill help to visualize how the application will work

Lawyer’s Profile

3. The lawyers have to get a id and password after paying 500 BDT. And thus they will be allowed to setup there profile.

Prototype DemonstrationWill help to visualize how the application will work

Crime Category tab

4. The Victims portion will contain different categories. The categories will contain different law related information.

Prototype DemonstrationWill help to visualize how the application will work

Lawyer Appointment tab

5. The victims have to pay 50 BDT if they want to see the lawyers of any particular category and will check the “Yes” if they appoint that lawyer.

Feasibility

Easy to operate

User friendly Interface

Real Time Data transfer

SMS Notification

Integration of many helpful things

Technically sound and feasible

Merits

Saving public hassle

Virtual chamber for the Lawyers

Customizable

Adding features as per requirement

Target Groups

LawyersVictimsGeneral people

Launching the app & creating a buzz

Best smart app for law purpose & Introducing virtual law chamber

Virtual Law Chamber with live Video Chatting

The entire country gets to know about the law through the app.

The Big pictureThe Big Picture

Market Size

Innumerable amount of people interested to know about Law.

Lots of Fresh Law graduates passing every year

• At present, there is no such company taking initiative like ours in Bangladesh• No existing institution for middle class people• Lowest possible price

Competition

Marketing Strategy

• Providing our service to some of the very renowned Lawyers with “Non-disclosure agreement”.

• Hitting the social media.• Organizing the seminars about “Technology makes Law easier than ever before”.

Business Model

Materials Price in taka(for Large Scale Development)

Server Cost 8000App Development Cost 30000Total 38000 BDT

Product CostRevenue Generation Model

Lawyers profile setup

Lawyer preferences for victims

Commission from each appointments

27

Cost Analysis: 1st year

PC & Tech. Installation- 1,00,000/= Logistics & Inventory- 1,00,000/= Development Cost 30,000/= Server Cost 8,000/= Marketing -

Non-disclosure Agreement- 3,00,000/= Social Media- 2,20,000/= Seminar- 1,20,000/=

Total- 8,78,000/=

Source of Profit:

• Per Lawyer Profile Setup 500 BDT• Per Victims access to the lawyers profile- 50 BDT• 10% Commission from each appointment- 500 BDT

The above estimation shows that we need around 200 lawyers, 400 victims and at

least 180 appointments can help us to reach the break even point in the very first year of our product launch.

Lastly,

We Want To Scale We want network, Funding & Resources

Your Help is what we seek

“We are just like the rest, only different”

Visualization of the demo product

Do go to the above link to see the demonstration of the prototype of the app that we want to launch.

Click to See the App Demostration of "Lawyer Drawer App"

Thank You!!!