Luigi Bai Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Lone Star Legal Aid was awarded a grant by the Legal Services Corporation to create an automated system to analyze the documents we develop and keep them up to date. Each document will have a list of statutes, regulations, agencies, and other websites that need to be checked periodically. When one of those changes, an alert will be sent to the author(s) to review the relevant documents.This will allow us to keep our self-help tools and information up to date, while spending less time doing a full review of every document on a fixed schedule.

Houston, Texas, United States

I am a member of our Innovative Programming team, where we provide improved services for clients, and improve the provision of our current services. I currently oversee three different projects at Lone Star Legal Aid:1. A practice team helping clients with eviction appeals;2. A staff member working on a grant from the Legal Services Corporation to upgrade and maintain the disaster website at https://www.ladrc.org;3. A team creating self-help tools and technology.The latter team has come up with tools to help visitors solve their own legal problems with foreclosures, evictions, debt collection, and other areas of law. Our content development attorneys create guided interviews that lead visitors to legal information and to documents they can use to negotiate with landlords, mortgage servicers, or to file in court. Our programmers create the tools using CALI's A2J technology and using PSTI's LegalServer case management ecosystem. Our work is funded by the Legal Services Corporation and the Texas Access to Justice Foundation.

Houston, Texas, United States

Managed the creation of the Eviction Text Messaging Program. The program helps to guide our clients through the JP Court Eviction Appeal process with text messaging support. This guided support provides text message reminders of deadlines, links to helpful information at appropriate times, and answer questions about the eviction process. If you disagree with an eviction court order, you can request a “do-over” – A new trial before a new judge. This is called an “appeal.” Aside from providing individuals and families an opportunity to have a new trial, tenants can also apply for available rental assistance programs while the case is on appeal, helping them stay in their homes. Our clients receive help understanding the eviction appeal process, are provided with free legal advice, and assistance in drafting a Statement of Inability to Pay Court Costs and Appeal of their eviction suit. Team: Lauren Figaro and April Williams, Content Development AttorneysAndrea Martinez, Twilio Studio programmer and Spanish translatorJanice Rivera, LegalServer programmer

Houston, Texas Area

Member:* State Bar of Texas, Appellate Section.* Texas Bar College* Houston Bar Association, Appellate Section.* American Bar Association, GP/Solo and Young Lawyer's Divisions.Admitted:* Texas, 2014* U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2014* United States Tax Court, 2016* EOIR/Immigration Court/BIA, 2017Concentrating on: immigration, pro bono cases, appeals (criminal and civil), copyright and licensing, consumer and collection complaints.

Houston, Texas Area

My primary role at Lone Star Legal Aid is as Project Director of the Texas Integrated Intake and Referral System for Disaster Victims.This three year, $4.9M grant project, funded by Legal Services Corporation (LSC), is led by Lone Star Legal Aid (LSLA) in collaboration with Legal Aid of Northwest Texas (LANWT) and Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA). Together our three programs provide services across the entire state of Texas, as well as four counties in Arkansas.As part of this effort, we are building an automated system to deliver information and perform client intake over the Internet, using text/SMS, and by voice recognition over phone. We will assist self-represented individuals by asking about their situation and providing some suggested materials. Those with more complex cases will be directed to our intake system, where we will collect the information necessary to make a decision about taking their case or placing it with a pro bono volunteer attorney.We are also building a web portal for pro bono volunteers across the state. This web site will allow volunteers to choose and manage cases, and access practice materials and mentors. Materials will include forms, treatises, CLE videos, and other practice aids.My role on this project is to organize, direct, and troubleshoot the day-to-day aspects of the user-facing automated navigation; interact with vendors, LANWT, and TRLA; ensure overall project activities remain on schedule and milestones are timely met; oversee content management by the three Texas programs and supervise LSLA's Content Manager; and participate in testing, evaluation, and grant reporting.Our team have also been awarded roughly $500,000 by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation (TAJF) to produce more disaster-related content, much of which will be incorporated into the survivor-facing portal above. One of our first efforts is an eviction interview helping renters recognize and exercise the protections they received under the CARES Act.

Houston, Texas Area

HVL Staff Attorneys help clients with civil issues (not criminal), excluding immigration. My responsibilities included:* Helping pro-se litigants with legal research, forms, and document review at our booth at the Harris County Law Library in the morning for nearly half-time. I addressed any substantive area of law, both Federal and State, with a large number of visitors concerned with Family Law issues;* Providing mentorship to volunteers on 80 - 90 cases at a time. My cases generally involved either US Veterans (all substantive areas), or Family Law (divorce, custody, enforcement);* Coordinating volunteer attorneys at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital on Friday afternoons;* Coordinating volunteer attorneys at Saturday clinics working with Veterans as clients;* Working with clients and volunteer attorneys at various other HVLP events;* Participating in the transition to LegalServer as a case management platform;* Representing clients directly as counsel of record. My cases included: divorce, other family law, expunction, landlord/tenant, bankruptcy (Chapter 7).

Houston, Texas Area

Sr. Systems Analyst/Developer, working primarily with web system technologies and Ellucian BANNER for the Administrative Systems department.* Developed patches to core Ellucian BANNER functionality, in PL/SQL, Pro*C, and Java. * Created user-facing applications in HTML/AJAX, and involving XML, XSLT, and javascript/jQuery.* Led a team dedicated to student-related functions, including registrar, financial aid, and cashier.* Research, develop, and annually maintain compliance reports for various agencies and other recipients.* Research and repair data problems in student records and financial aid.* Interface Ellucian BANNER with other systems, using various technologies ranging from flat files to web services. These interfaces included REST APIs, and batch CSV and XML loads and extracts.

Assisted with immigration matters - research and writing briefs to the Immigration Court and BIA, and filing applications for change of status and employment authorization.

Houston, Texas Area

Interns at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals perform legal research, write memoranda concerning relevant legal topics, and provide assistance with drafts of legal opinions.

Provided research and editing assistance to Professor Sapna Kumar for an upcoming patent-law related article.

As co-founder, President, and CEO, I managed employees, external consultants and contractors, client engagements, and participated in projects as a business process and technology consultant.

Co-author with Professor Leslie Griffin and Glenn Sanford of the first supplement to the second edition of the casebook "Law and Religion" from Foundation Press (2010)(http://griffinlawandreligion.com). Supplement was published August 2010.

As Chief Technical Officer I set the research and development direction for StashCast Media. I also direct both in-house and outsourced implementation teams to deliver on the products and services requested by our customers.

My duties included the design and implementation of network infrastructure to deliver both VoIP and data services to customers. We managed server farms at multiple co-location facilities to provide connectivity to customers around the country and to support internal corporate and customer support operations. During my tenure we streamlined operations to improve service, automated call center and support operations, and brought our customer service portal operations in-house from an outsourced vendor.

High volume securities trading systems development in Java. Development on messaging backbone using TIBCO EMS and Java sockets, XML, XSLT, JAXB, etc. Responsibility for design/architecture, development, testing strategy.

SBIR grant to deliver a prototype for a web-based teacher collaborative tool, and to study its utility to teachers and its educational effects on students. Collaborated with Baylor College of Medicine (for curriculum content) and Rice University (for user interface/usability study).http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/CRISP_LIB.getdoc?textkey=6790883&p_grant_num=1R43RR019782-01&p_query=&ticket=21965802&p_audit_session_id=103927785&p_keywords=

Developed adapters to connect the flagship product Tonic with BMC Software's PATROL product and IBM's Tivoli Event Console. The adapters allowed those third party consoles to monitor and close events raised by the Tonic monitoring system.

I was a Java and TIBCO expert providing architecture advice on several projects, including a high-volume, distributed mark-to-market valuation infrastructure, a natural gas trading system, and a distributed master/detail database synchronization mesh with over 60 different databases.

Developed PATROL Knowledge Module for Oracle v6 and 7

Consulting: Oracle programming (OCI, PL/SQL, SQL), TUXEDO services (C on Dynix/ptx), PATROL (custom Knowledge Module for TUXEDO).

Co-developed "SQLAssist", a tool to help database users build valid and meaningful database queries. Developed an SQL query optimizer that used index information from database metadata to help users build high-performance queries. Also designed and developed a common metadata layer for different databases: Oracle, Ingres, Rdb, Sybase, Informix. Co-developed the cross-platform development tools and automated build process, which generated and tested executables on HP/UX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, and VAX/VMS for each of the above databases.

Developed process control and automation for the semiconductor fabrication plant in Dallas, TX. The software was developed in Xenix on Intel 80386 machines.

J.D., Law, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Order of the Barons, Evening Law Students Association (ELSA), Houston Law Review, Student Mentor.

Ba, Computer Science

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