Jura | Devpost

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Inspiration

The in-house legal departments in companies struggle with overflowing requests to vet documents and advise colleagues from other departments about the legal liabilities of certain business activities. As such, there are often requests that get overlooked without a centralised system.

We need a project management tool to handle the correspondence between in-house legal departments and the requestors from other departments. Hence we developed Jura, a web application that eases the correspondence process.

What it does

Jura collates requests, organises them by date or priority according to the user’s needs, and even reminds the department of nearing deadlines that need to be fulfilled. The requestor, being a non-legal employee of the company, submits a request via the in-built form in Jura to the legal department, with a notification being sent to the legal department. How we differentiate Jura from its competitors is the fact that information fields required will be determined by the option that they select in the drop down list. In the near future, we are also looking at AI for determining what information needs to be collected for the specific request. The request can then be reviewed, with it being accepted or rejected if the request is out of order. After being accepted, the request will then be assigned to a specific individual, and progress will be updated accordingly. Jura will provide notification updates on how that goes to both the requestor and lawyer. When the request is then finally completed, Jura will output the document available for download to the requestor after being uploaded by the lawyer, to complete the process.

In conclusion, Jura is a streamlined webapp that will provide more efficiency to both the requestor and the legal department. The requestor will be able to to provide as much information as possible in one shot, instead of the lawyer having to request each specific document after checking, with the exception of very niche cases. The whole process is now made more convenient, with our all in one app, Jura, which manages all legal-type requests in the company.

How we built it

We built it using bootstrap, html, css, js and firebase.

Challenges we ran into

Many of us are not experienced in tech and took some time to develop the project. Furthermore, most of us are busy with work or internship and are not able fully devote our time to the project.