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The open work.
I practice immigration law in a part of the country with no immigration court of its own, for families the system is built to exhaust. These tools are free, bilingual, and built for immigrant and mixed-status families first — the same families I sit across from at the Memphis Immigration Court. 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 for a family whose parent can be detained on a Tuesday, the hiding is dangerous. If you use one of these and never speak to me, that's it working as intended.
The Red Binder Project
A family emergency plan, before the emergency. If a parent gets picked up by ICE, detained, or deported, someone trusted has to be able to step in — care for the kids, keep the household running, reach a lawyer fast, and find the documents. Free, bilingual planning tools generate that plan right on your own device: care designations, emergency contacts, a lawyer's page — everything a grandmother, a neighbor, or a US-citizen teenager needs to hold the family together. Built for immigrant and mixed-status families first, useful to anyone. Nothing you enter is stored or sent. The code is open so that promise is checkable, not just stated.
Child Support Calculators
Removal proceedings don't pause child support. A parent in detention still owes it, a caregiver raising US-citizen kids still needs it ordered, and the guideline amount 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 your state's guideline in your browser, show the rule behind every line, and produce a worksheet you can file — no lawyer required, in English or Spanish. Seven states live — Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida — with the rest planned. Open-source, MIT-licensed.
Teaching
A two-course law-school seminar arc, the same method taught in a clinic: students take a statute that immigrant families actually live under and ship an open public good — then draft the rule that makes every state ship one. The worked examples are the Red Binder Project and the calculators; Washington State is the proof it can be done. The point is a generation of lawyers who build the tool instead of billing the hour.
DIG — a verified record for construction money.
On a renewable energy project, three stories run at once: what the contract promised, what the builder certified, what actually stands in the field. Disputes live in the gaps between them. DIG reconciles all three to the dollar, line by line, on the map the project is built from — so the argument over what happened ends, and the only question left is what to do next. This is a contract made operational: every party sees exactly what it's entitled to, enforced by the database, not a settings page. The public walkthrough runs a synthetic $108M solar project end to end; every number is fake on purpose and graded against a sealed answer key, because a record you can't prove is just another claim. Unlike its neighbors on this page, this is commercial work, not open source. It's here because it's the method these courses teach, at full scale: one lawyer, one real problem, a working system.
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.