Kashmir law student lands Trilegal internship after his case management platform wins at hackathon

Hammad Altaf Hafiz, a third-year B.A.LL.B. student at the University of Kashmir, has won the Vibecode Law Vibeathon with CourtSync, a case management platform he built for lawyers.

CourtSync took first place at competition organised by Indian LegalTech Network and sponsored by Trilegal. Hafiz has received ₹75,000 as prize money and an internship at Trilegal.

Hafiz is an intern at M/S Malik & Muazzam Law Chambers in Srinagar where the case diary and the day’s cause list were kept by hand. The idea for CourtSync came after discussions with his seniors there.

Hafiz has no coding background and built the platform with AI tools by describing what a chamber needs in plain language and refining it step by step. His seniors let him build against live cases and the chamber now uses CourtSync in everyday practice.

CourtSync lets users export their cases from the eCourts app and import all High Court and district court cases. Cases can be filtered by forum, assigned lawyer, date and client. A calendar shows every date.

Lawyers get a notification at 9 AM listing the day’s cases, while each associate gets a separate alert with only their assigned cases. At 6 PM, everyone gets the next day’s list.

On a hearing day, CourtSync picks up the cases a lawyer has listed. The lawyer selects the ones to follow on the court’s digital display board and the phone buzzes when a case is three away, two away, next and called.

Every night, it once again checks each case on the court’s website and updates the next date, stage and court. A report shows what changed and what could not be checked. Each morning, it reads the published cause lists of High Courts, district courts, tribunals and consumer commissions, matches them to the firm’s cases and produces one list to download or print.

Its newest feature checks court websites nightly for new orders, downloads the PDF, saves it with the case and notifies the lawyers on that case. Earlier orders stay on the case page.