LegalAtoms provides online questionnaires along with helpful information so clients can self-prepare and file protection orders. It also provides tools for the county to assist the clients at every question, and allow the clients to electronically file the protection orders.
Even before COVID-19, victims needing protection orders had major barriers in accessing the existing systems across Washington state. These included the inability to visit during office hours, transportation challenges or not having the freedom or privacy to visit the court without making the matters worse.
LegalAtoms makes it easy for your constituents to get protection orders by making the process friendly, and it cuts your costs by increasing the efficiency of your existing team.
LegalAtoms focuses only on Washington to keep it 100% updated and accurate at any given time.
How it works for the victim (client)
1. View Process, Legal InfoFree
The client visits LegalAtoms.com from any device securely and privately. The client can then check their eligibility for DVPO, the process as a series of simple steps and answers to many situational questions
2. Create DVPO PapersFree
Clients answers questionnaires in plan language which then generates Petition and other court forms. The client sees help text and videos next to the questions prepared by lawyers & advocates
3. Consult FacilitatorsFree & Optional
Clients can securely share their online application with advocates or court officials. They can even hold a secure video call without the need to install any software
4. E-File Free
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many courts have allowed filing the DVPO online. LegalAtoms allows the client to send the complete package electronically (e-mail and within LegalAtoms).
Legalatoms provides an efficient and easy to use e-signature
E-Signature: These are any signatures done online. LegalAtoms embeds needs within questionnaires where users can sign using any of: mouse, finger on smartphone/mouse track pad, or any pointing device such as a stylus
Digital signatures: These are signatures that carry additional hidden information such as a digital identity of the person signing, plus the text of what was signed, in a secure way
Clerk can view the client provided responses in a compact view without using any detail for general efficiency
Clerk’s Office staff need to be approve or reject filings within the solution
Easy modification to, and update of, state created forms as needed according to Local Court Rules by authorized Superior Court administrators and Clerk’s Office staff
Automatically routes all submitted documents in the file to the correct queue for verification and acceptance
Track of cases in a "FedEx" style tracking code
Automatically flag “Clerk’s Action Required” or "Law Enforcement Action Required" or flag for which ever department needs to act to move a case forward.
Customizable queue routing so the Clerk’s Office can designate where documents go and make changes as Clerk teams and processes change over time
All high-risk and time-sensitive filings are flagged, ensuring increased efficiency and reducing potential for error as Clerks processes these petitions:
LegalAtoms allows for external to parties and departments involved
Petitioners can identify all parties in the case and supply email addresses in the solution. LegalAtoms can then deliver the completed case packets via email and allow for e-mail acknowledge receipts.
LegalAtoms masks email addresses (and other protected or redacted information) for all parties after submission to protect confidential information
LegalAtoms additionally sends verification email to all provided email addresses and wait for verification before sending anything else to that email address.
Clerks can provide a fee schedule for each case type (e.g. based on statutory requirements) and service so the correct fees are charged for each filing type
LegalAtoms provides a Shopping Cart for end users to access and purchase completed individual case documents, certified copies, filing fees, or even service fees such as facilitator fees.
LegalAtoms also provides extensibility points to interface with a court's other vendors handling payments receipts and payments.
LegalAtoms provides fee payments to be automatically calculated and processed at the end of the business day for governmental end users who currently utilize vouchers
LegalAtoms provides convenient data import and export features using open securer formats for interfacing with other systems.
Modules
LegalAtoms provides these modules that serve additional roles (offices) in a court. These offer richer A-la carte functionality and separation, while keeping all parties on a single uniform platform for seamlessly moving data and moving to a paperless model.
This page provides the complete information for Clerk module. In summary clerks can receive court packets, offer assistance, and decisions back to the client in a secure and seamless way.
Clerks can also forward and share the client case with different roles such as Judges or Commissioner, Advocates or Facilitators
Pro Se
Offers the general public a guided experience to prepare and file their court packets
Features
Questions posed in simple non-legal language
Print correct court forms without missing required fields
Spanish language
Download court in MS WORD or PDF
E-file
Share your online cases seamlessly
Adovcate
Clients can become aware of the court facilitators and advocates, on what they offer, and whether their situation qualifies for their help. Clients can then share their cases, and communicate with them seamlessly via integrated chat, and voice and video calls for added privacy and surveillance protection
Non profits can setup accounts that allows them to assist clients within protection orders such as domestic violence protection orders. They get access to client questionnaires, court forms and the ability to chat or video call with clients securely without needing clients to install any software