Who can see which documents?

Access is permission-gated with role-based controls. Clients see only their own matter; senior advocates can access the full firm library. Documents are encrypted end to end.

Does the firm need a developer to publish updates?

No. Staff publish through a CMS that requires no technical knowledge, and keyword-rule categorisation tags incoming updates automatically — which cut editorial overhead by more than 60%.

Legal services

Sajjad Husain Law Associates

Legal technology platform with bilingual Hindi/English search and a permission-gated document repository.

Country: India
Platform: Web, Android

About the client

Sajjad Husain Law Associates

A law firm with decades of High Court and Supreme Court practice was running client relationships on WhatsApp. We built a web portal and mobile app that give clients a reliable view of their own matters.

Client background: A legal consultancy with decades of High Court and Supreme Court experience and almost no digital footprint.
Business model: Professional services practice; the platform serves existing clients and attracts new enquiries.
Target audience: Clients of the firm, plus people searching for legal updates in Hindi or English.

Research & discovery

What we learned before building

Discovery ran before a line of production code. These are the findings that changed the brief.

User Research
Interviews with the firm's clients revealed the anxiety was informational, not legal. People did not need more documents; they needed to know their matter had moved. That reframed the product from a document store into a status feed with documents attached.
Competitor Analysis
Indian legal portals index judgments for lawyers, not clients. Search assumed you already knew the terminology, which is precisely the barrier an ordinary client faces.
Market Analysis
Legal search in India is bilingual in practice. Queries mix Hindi and English, often transliterated inconsistently, so exact-match search fails the people who need it most. Handling that properly was the differentiator.
Journey Mapping
Following a matter from filing to hearing showed updates were generated by the firm but never reached the client except by message. Giving staff a publishing tool they would actually use mattered more than any client-side feature.

Our solution

The decisions we made

Each one traceable to a constraint above, not to a preference.

A legal feed categorised by matter type, court and jurisdiction, updated through a CMS needing no technical knowledge.

Keyword-rule categorisation that cut editorial overhead substantially.

Bilingual search normalising transliterated Hindi and English input, ranked by relevance.

A permission-gated repository with end-to-end encryption and role-based access.

Key features

What Sajjad Husain Law Associates does

Everything shipped and in production, not a roadmap.

Legal feed
Updates by matter type, court and jurisdiction.
Bilingual search
Hindi and English in one query, transliteration-aware.
Document repository
Permission-gated filings and court orders.
Offline viewer
Review documents without a stable connection.
Role-based access
Clients see their matter; advocates see the library.
Staff CMS
Firm staff publish updates without developer help.

Technology stack

What it runs on

The choices behind the build, grouped by layer.

Frontend: Next.js
React Native
Tailwind CSS
Backend: Express
Database: PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Infrastructure: Docker

Results

What it does today

Less editorial overhead: 60%

Source: project write-up.

FAQ

Common questions

The engine normalises transliterated input, handles common spelling variations across Hindi and English, and ranks by relevance rather than exact string match. A client can search the way they speak instead of the way a filing is worded.

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