Avatara Smith

In support of Maryland Volunteer Legal Services, I worked on a project which gathers public data and analyzes it looking for possible legal issues our clients may have. My project was broken into three categories, (1) pure legal work, (2) legal/tech work, (3) pure tech work. The pure legal work consisted of mostly expungement work such as fling paperwork with the court, determining expungement eligibility for clients, and drafting motions. The legal/tech work consisted of database work, using SQL and the MVLS database to run queries for people including how many people were charged with prostitution offenses in certain counties, how many houses are at risk of tax sale because of a high water bill, and verifying authenticity of data by comparing court records to our records.