JURISTECH

•   CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES - JurisPlatform is an advanced SaaS solution designed to empower Italian legal professionals by streamlining case management, enhancing collaboration amongst legal working groups, automating document generation, and ensuring accurate tracking of critical deadlines. 

Fully integrated with the Italian Ministry of Justice's digital systems, it enables synchronised legal proceedings compliant with regulations, delivering enhanced efficiency and transparency..

• DEPLOYED​ SKILLS  AI integration, Analysis and UI/UXDesign, Workflow management,  DJango / Python, Angular, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Graylog, GIT, Gitlab, Gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Docker, NGinix, Cypress. 
• SYSTEMS & TOOLS  - MethodologIes: SCRUM, Test Drive Design | Frameworks: Django, Python+Angular | Tools: Gitab, Taiga, PyCharm.

•  SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED

1. Dynamic Case Timelines: a colour-coded visual representation of legal case activity, complete with procedural symbols and milestones, enabling intuitive understanding of case progression.
2. Intelligent Workflow Engine: pre-configured workflows (with contextual guidance) tailored to multiple legal case types and the most common procedural pathways, accelerating onboarding and reducing process errors.
3. Integrated Document Editor: a powerful editor driven by a flexible template engine, enabling legal professionals to generate documents quickly and accurately within the platform.
4. Low-Code Template Generator: a user-friendly low-code interface for creating and managing document templates, allowing business users to adapt without developer intervention. 
5. Advanced Procurement Module: customisable procurement workflows with explicit mapping of legal authorities across procedure types, ensuring compliance, clarity, and auditability.
6. Robust Terms and Conditions System: extensive support for complex legal terms and conditions across jurisdictions and case types.
7. National Competence Mapping: a centralised map of jurisdictions and competences of legal offices throughout Italy, facilitating accurate case routing and lawyer assignment.
8. Event-Based Notification System: configurable alerts and reminders based on internal events and user-defined rules, improving case responsiveness and oversight.
9. Granular Access Control: hybrid role-based and attribute-based access controls (RBAC + ABAC) enable calibrated permission management aligned with legal roles and case parameters.
10. Legal Domicile Assignment Workflow: automated workflows for assigning cases and procedures to appropriate legal representatives based on jurisdiction and case type.
11. Legal Staff Role Support: defined roles and permissions for paralegals and legal support staff to ensure structured collaboration.
12. Dual-Level Task Assignment: task responsibilities divided between "Responsible" and "Executor" roles, fostering accountability without process bottlenecks. 
13. Seamless Document Management Integration: native document management functionality with optional integration to external Document Management Systems (DMS).
14. Embedded PDF Generation: native PDF rendering for all legal documents managed internally, ensuring consistency and compliance in output.
15. Digital Signature and Secure Communications: comprehensive support for electronic document signatures, certified email (PEC), and incoming mail processing via IMAP, ensuring secure and legally compliant communication flows.
16. Direct Integration with Italian Civil Court (PCT): native integration with the Processo Civile Telematico (PCT) system, enabling seamless digital interactions with the Italian Civil Court for civil proceedings, reducing friction, duplication, and manual effort.
17. AI-Powered Document Recognition: linking capability for advanced AI-driven document classification and recognition, accelerating workflows.

•  CHALLENGES 

1. Designing for Multi-Tenant Reality: creating an architecture supporting multiple independent law firms or legal entities, each requiring complete data isolation whilst sharing common infrastructure.
2. Balancing security, performance, and flexibility represented constant tension: making Modularity Functional in Practice: breaking the system into manageable, loosely coupled modules seemed straightforward, but in reality meant aligning release cycles, dependencies, and responsibilities across working groups without introducing fragility.
3. Managing Complex Access Logic: legal systems don't operate with simple user roles. We had to build a role-based access control system flexible enough to support nested hierarchies, role delegation, and tenant-specific permissions—all without compromising security or usability.
4. Adapting to a Moving Regulatory Target: Italian legal procedures are detailed, localised, and change frequently. Ensuring the platform could keep pace with evolving requirements without triggering complete system rewrites was a constant design constraint.
5. Transforming Legal Procedures into Workflows: automating legal workflows meant translating nuanced, often paper-based processes into structured digital flows, whilst preserving legal intent, traceability, and compliance. 
6. Managing Regulatory Changes Seamlessly: we had to account for inevitable legal reforms so the system could dynamically adapt to regulatory updates without compromising downstream logic or data integrity.
7. Protecting Sensitive Legal Data: with GDPR and strict legal confidentiality rules at stake, data security wasn't a feature but a fundamental design principle. Every system layer was built with encryption, access control, and traceability in mind.
8. Maintaining Speed Despite Complexity: multi-tenancy, modularity, and workflow-intensive use cases add weight. We had to continuously optimise performance to keep the platform responsive, even under peak legal workloads.

•  VICTORIES 

1. Automatic Document Recognition via Artificial Intelligence: support for recognising uncatalogued documents through an AI module eliminates mechanical work and reduces system access requirements, improving overall performance.
2. Case Task Suggestions: the system suggests which tasks should be performed within specific legal cases using a structure that allows simple updates, expansions, and customisations of the TIPS system.
3. Template-Based Document Production: users can produce template-based documents with all system information, powered by a template engine enabling extremely rapid and effective updates and customisations.
4. Low-Code Template Creation: the template production engine is a low-code system allowing even inexperienced users to create new templates, useful both for JP staff and client extensions.
5. Power of Attorney Management: the lawyer power of attorney attribute management system handles various functionalities, including document composition based on lawyers' powers and authorities.
6. Configurable Terms and Conditions: the Terms and Conditions system is highly configurable, enabling management of existing terms and creation of new ones without requiring direct programming intervention.
7. Push Notification Engine: an integrated notification system enables push notification configuration without direct code intervention for each modification.
8. Advanced Permissions System: features configurable permissions based on user roles (RBAC) and model attributes (ABAC), making interventions faster and more secure in the complex environment of user actions.
9. Dual Assignee Support: all tasks can manage two assignees with distinct roles and responsibilities.
10. Hierarchical File Management: a comprehensive file system based on hierarchical elements of legal cases addresses the challenge of managing large volumes of legal documents.
11. Procedural Information Analysis: an independent analysis engine processes procedural information and updates within 24 hours, enabling rapid information receipt and appropriate filings on the platform.
12. Fully GDPR Compliant.