Non-Techie Guide for Building Legal Aid Guided Interviews with Docassemble

Docassemble Guided Interview Tips for Legal Aiders

A guide for non-“techies” interested in creating Docassemble guided interviews using the Suffolk LIT Lab’s Document Assembly Line

This guide was created by Legal Services Vermont as part of a Legal Services Corporation TIG grant project. It provides some tips and tricks for members of the legal aid community and others who want to learn to create Docassemble guided interviews. It was published in December 2025.

Legal Services Vermont used Suffolk LIT Lab’s Document Assembly Line to build guided interviews. These tips reflect our experience in turning fillable PDF forms into accessible and user-friendly guided interviews. At the end of the guided interviews, the user can download, print or email the resulting PDFs to deliver to the court.

Our first six VTCourtForms guided interviews were for highly used Vermont court forms. They were based on fillable PDFs from the court. We are now also developing MS Word-based pleadings, such as an answer to an eviction complaint.

In this guide we offer links to the comprehensive Suffolk LIT Lab Document Assembly Line documentation and Docassemble documentation. The links are typically at the bottom of each section.

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