Legal Aid Intake API with Eligibility Screening

Automate Legal Aid Intake with API-Powered Screening and Assignment

Legal aid organizations, nonprofit law firms, and pro bono programs face a critical challenge: efficiently screening applicants, assessing eligibility, and routing cases to the right attorneys—all while managing limited resources. This Legal Aid Intake API template helps legal services organizations build a scalable, automated intake system that screens applicants, prioritizes urgent cases, and assigns matters to available attorneys.

Built for legal tech developers, legal aid administrators, and SaaS platforms serving the legal services sector, this template provides the foundation for API-driven legal intake workflows that can be embedded in websites, mobile apps, or integrated with case management systems.

Why Paperform for Legal Aid API Development

Paperform's flexible form builder lets you design complex intake forms with conditional logic that adapts to each applicant's situation. Capture detailed client information, screen for financial eligibility, assess case urgency, and determine practice area needs—all in one streamlined form. The built-in calculation engine handles income-to-poverty-level ratios and eligibility scoring without custom code.

Once submitted, integrate with your case management platform via webhooks or use Stepper (stepper.io) to automate attorney assignment based on practice area, workload, and availability. Route urgent cases immediately, send confirmation emails with next steps, and keep your team synchronized across tools—all triggered automatically from form submission.

Perfect for legal aid societies, access to justice initiatives, legal tech startups, and public interest law organizations building scalable intake systems that serve more clients without expanding administrative overhead.