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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. WellSettled.com Mines Cases for Established Principles.

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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law

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T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. million published cases (and which has continued to grow since then).

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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law

Legal Tech Monitor

T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. million published cases (and which has continued to grow since then).

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Legal Tech Monitor

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. WellSettled.com Mines Cases for Established Principles.

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

Above the Law - Technology

Demo video: [link] Founded: 9/1/2017, Birmingham, MI Target customer: Law firms (all sizes), corporate legal departments, and eDiscovery service providers (our current paying customers are law firms). If ever there was an industry ripe for disruption, legal tech, and specifically legal research, is it.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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You Still Need to Put in the Work: Hyperdraft’s Ashley Carlisle and Tony Thai on the AI Hype Cycle (TGIR Ep. 213)

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Current useful applications center on legal research, brainstorming, administrative tasks – not mission-critical legal analysis. Casetext’s acquisition by Thomson Reuters illustrates the present-day limitations of large language models trained primarily on case law. It’s been trained on case law.