These are free and they ask nothing of you. No login, no payment, and none of them route back to me. The belief is simple: most of the law isn't hard, it's hidden — and the hiding is a choice I don't make. If you use one of these and never speak to me, that's it working as intended.
How the law actually works, written plainly. Deep guides on the things people pay lawyers to demystify — what really happens at a Mississippi DUI stop, how to form your own LLC, the procedural map of cancellation of removal in Memphis Immigration Court. If you can handle your own matter after reading one, good.
Your state's child-support guideline isn't an estimate. By federal law it's the number a court starts from. So it shouldn't live inside a macro-enabled spreadsheet not every computer can run. These calculators compute it in your browser, show the rule behind every line, and produce a worksheet you can file. Seven states live — Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida — with the rest planned. Open-source, MIT-licensed. When we find our own numbers running on a stale schedule, we say so on the page and fix it.
A family emergency plan, before the emergency. Free, bilingual planning tools so a trusted person can step in — care for the kids, keep the household running, reach a lawyer fast — if a parent or caregiver suddenly can't. Built for immigrant and mixed-status families first, useful to anyone. Documents are generated on your own device; nothing you enter is stored or sent. The code is open so that promise is checkable, not just stated.
A two-course law-school seminar arc, the same method taught in a clinic: students take a statute and ship an open public good — then draft the rule that makes every state ship one. The worked examples are the calculators and the Red Binder Project; Washington State is the proof it can be done.
I'm not going to pretend the free work has no effect on the practice — people remember who showed them how the thing works. But that's a by-product, not the mechanism. The day this work starts being built to feed the practice is the day it stops being trustworthy. So I keep them separate. You can use everything here and owe me nothing.