Building a Platform to Store, Update, and Share Legal Documentation
The client
Codex102 is a web app giving legal practitioners and students a straightforward way to annotate, update and share their legal documentation.
Its founder, Richard, is a legal practitioner himself. He knew that if digital technology had transformed every other kind of work, it could simplify creating and maintaining legal annotation too.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Heavy codebooks covered in handwritten annotation follow lawyers through their working lives. The practice is neither convenient nor effective, and it makes finding the right information hard.
Challenge 01Notes that have to move
When the law updates, every annotation has to be transferred. With changes several times a year, even a clever system for it fails.
Challenge 02Losing track of your own work
Lawyers end up unsure where their notes are and where the information they need sits.
Challenge 03Keeping up with regulation
Practitioners must stay current with regulation, and annotating their codes is how they do it — so the tool has to fit that habit rather than replace it.
What we did
Annotation that survives the next amendment
The web app was built so that annotating, updating and sharing legal documentation stops being an exercise in stationery.
Digital, and attached
Notes live with the provision they belong to rather than on a sticky note that has to be moved.
Law changes, notes follow
The app is built around the fact that codes are amended several times a year, which is the problem the paper version cannot solve.
Between practitioners
Legal documentation and the annotation on it can be shared, which paper annotation makes effectively impossible.
Practitioners and students
The tool serves people in practice and people still training, who have the same problem at different scales.
Client testimonial
Netguru provided us with meaningful input on how to refine the initial concept. They didn’t close their mind to what the product would need to entail. Quite the contrary, I immediately felt they were open to discuss my ideas constructively.
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