Neon Law Foundation

Agenda

An agenda, not a lecture outline — you are here to argue back. By the end of the half hour you will be able to:

Recount how a two-person team crossed from software to law without dropping the toolchain. Explain why a foundation-stewarded language is access-to-justice infrastructure. Trace our process from the law, to a Cucumber feature, to a template, to a signed notation. Dissect one workflow — forming a Nevada LLC — into attorney-gated steps with the shipped code. Defend the claim that a reviewed, repeatable workflow beats a prompt. Map how the rules of professional conduct compile into schema and workflow. Decide whether to open the repository, read the code, and star it.

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We frame this as an agenda rather than a lecture outline — you are here to argue back, not to be tested. By the end of the half hour you will be able to: Recount how a two-person team crossed from shipping software to practicing law without dropping the toolchain that got them there. Explain why a language stewarded by a non-profit foundation — free to every clinic, student, and solo practitioner — is access-to-justice infrastructure, not just an engineering preference. Trace our process from the law itself, to a Cucumber feature, to a template carrying a questionnaire and a workflow, to a notation a client actually signs. Dissect one legal workflow — forming a Nevada LLC — into small, modular, attorney-gated steps, and read the exact shipped code behind each one. Defend the claim that a reviewed, repeatable workflow beats asking an LLM with a prompt, because steps in a prompt are neither repeatable nor modular. Map how the rules of professional conduct — scoped engagements, conflict checks, referrals without referral fees — compile into schema and workflow rather than staying paper promises. Decide whether to open the repository, read the code, and — if it earns it — star it before you leave.

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