Helping your organization reach its peak.

Custom software for civil legal aid programs: case management, website chatbots, guided interviews and document assembly, online intake, and court-record tools. Everything on this page is in use by a legal aid program today.

Software we have built

Everything below is in use by a legal aid program today. Where the code is public, there is a link to the source.

Case management

OCM (Open Case Management)

Legal aid programs across the United States

PHPMySQL

Free, open-source case management. Also known as Pika and Ciprocity. PHP and MySQL. Run it on your own server or let us host it.

Website chatbots

Moose

Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Maine

Dialogflow

Helps visitors find self-help materials and their local office on a large, information-dense site. Built on Google Dialogflow so staff can maintain it themselves.

Marshall

Virginia Access to Justice Commission

Website chatbot for selfhelp.vacourts.gov that helps self-represented Virginians find courts, forms, and legal help.

Website assistant

Michigan Indian Legal Services

GeminiVertex AIFastAPI

Generative AI assistant grounded in the program's own web pages and documents. Answers with citations, declines to give legal advice, and meets WCAG 2.1. Google Gemini on Vertex AI, FastAPI on Cloud Run.

Guided interviews and document assembly

Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Clinic

docassemble interview, open source

docassemble

One guided interview produces a complete, filing-ready Chapter 7 petition packet: 20 official court forms, the creditor matrix, the means test, and state exemptions with statutory caps. Nebraska and South Dakota tables included. Other states on request.

National Ability to Pay Calculator

abilitytopay.org, with Alex Kornya

docassemble

Tells a court in a few minutes whether a person can afford court-ordered fines and fees, using IRS collection financial standards instead of a stack of paperwork. Can also produce a financial affidavit ready to file. docassemble.

Court records for re-entry and eviction prevention

Napier

Iowa Legal Aid

PythonFlask

Searches Iowa Courts Online for a client, pulls every case, charge, and balance, and builds a criminal record spreadsheet that applies Iowa's expungement rules and court-debt analysis. Used for expungement, professional licensure, and court debt relief. Python and Flask.

Eviction Scraper

Legal Aid of Nebraska

Python

Watches Nebraska Justice E-Services for new eviction filings and produces spreadsheets so tenant advocates can reach defendants before their hearing. Python. Public domain.

INDEIT

Indiana Legal Services

The Indiana Legal Services Expungement Information Tool. Helps pro bono attorneys research a client's records and expungement eligibility. Login-protected web app.

What's new in OCM

Open Case Management, also called Pika or Ciprocity

OCM started life as Pika and is also sold as Ciprocity. It is the same product. The current release is version 9.

Full details at opencasemanagement.com/features

Aurora interface
a new look with a command palette, three-pane case view, saved views, inline editing, and light, dark, and high-contrast themes.
Casey AI assistant
answers how-to questions from the OCM documentation. Casey never sees case data, scrubs personal information before it leaves the server, and logs every request.
Workflow engine
when a case opens, changes status, or gets a new activity, OCM can create ticklers and send email automatically.
Red flag rules
admin-defined warnings that show on a case when its data matches a rule.
Report formulas
a formula language for computed report columns.
Document assembly
docassemble integration plus .docx and RTF templates filled from case data.
Online intake
connectors for JotForm, FormAssembly, Formidable Forms, and Gravity Forms, plus a read-only client portal with document upload.
Integrations
single sign-on with Microsoft Entra and Google, Salesforce case sync, Twilio SMS with scheduled reminders, Office 365 calendar sync, and inbound email to case.
Program modules
HUD housing counseling, VAWA, immigration, education, pro bono, referral, and grant management.
In development
Outlook and Word add-ins, Microsoft Teams integration, and a mobile app.

About

Clark Management Consulting’s solutions don’t come out of a box ready to plug and play. We pride ourselves on identifying your challenges quickly and designing strategies to address them, always keeping top of mind your organization’s needs. We have been providing business management and technology solutions to governmental entities, law firms, and human service non-profits since 2017. We know the landscape, we know the technological challenges you face, and we understand your organizational mission and vision.

Our founder, Alex Clark, has been developing and implementing custom technology solutions for non-profit organizations, businesses, and governmental entities since 2017. Alex is a Nebraska-licensed attorney, a full-stack web developer, and holds a dozen technical, information security, and business management certifications from (ISC)², ISACA, PMI, CompTIA, and Microsoft.

Most of our customers are small- and medium-sized non-profit law firms from across the United States, but we work with human services non-profits of all sizes and missions.

  • Full-spectrum solutions. Our expertise is wide-ranging, encompassing everything from strategic planning, to information security, to software development, to business process efficiency.
  • Dramatic returns on investment. We only provide solutions which are actionable, appropriate for your business, and which we believe will result in a dramatic return on investment in terms of improved business processes and systems. We try to target at least a 1:10 ratio between your investment and the value realized to your business as a result of our work together.
  • Honesty. If we do not feel our services are the right fit for your needs, we will always tell you, and will orient you in the best path forward in all circumstances. While we can not always guarantee specific results, we unconditionally guarantee the quality of our work and the sincerity and transparency of our relationship with your organization.

What clients say

“He basically saved the entire project. He impressed us and he also impressed our outside tech people, and both our organizations would absolutely reach out to him again if another problem were to come up.”

Emily Spreiser, Pension Rights Center

“Alex worked with us to bring our vision to life, and now, nearly a year after launch we are pleased to report that our chatbot, Moose, has been a great success! This is a project we are very proud of – and working with Alex is a big part of what made it possible.”

Jack Haycock, Pine Tree Legal Assistance

“Alex’s people skills, reasonable rates, and very rare skill set make him an indispensable resource for Legal Aid organizations such as ours. When one of our senior staff hears that Alex has taken on a project, a sigh of relief typically follows.”

Eric Vang, Alaska Legal Services Corporation

Contact

GitHub @amsclarkGitLab @amsclark

Alex Clark is a Nebraska-licensed attorney and full-stack developer. Clark Management Consulting has built technology for legal aid, law firms, and human service non-profits since 2017.