Besides the sites that died, there are also a number of
crowdsourced legal sites that remain online, but in what can only be described as states of suspended animation.
The crowdsourced legal site Mootus launched in 2013 with an innovative concept: Provide a platform for «open online legal argument» so that lawyers and law students could create and share legal knowledge.
And as for me, I keep believing that one of these days,
a crowdsourced legal site will find success.
Not exact matches
Three
sites, in particular, stand out to me as potential success stories in the small world of
crowdsourced legal research.
The
site provides free access to cases and statutes for
legal research and uses
crowdsourcing — insights contributed by the
legal community — to annotate the
legal materials in its collection.
It is from Apoorva Mehta, who is now a huge Silicon Valley success story as the founder of grocery - delivery service Instacart, but who, earlier in his career, attempted to start a
legal networking and
crowdsourcing site called Lawford (later called LegalReach).
Mootus is another
site that uses
crowdsourcing for
legal research, but it takes a much different approach.
Crowdsourcing the law is a concept any number of
legal sites have tried over the years, as I've written about many times.
It launched in 2013 as a free
legal research
site that would use
crowdsourcing to annotate cases.
Increasingly,
legal research
sites are seeking to do exactly this — to promote a more collaborative,
crowdsourced approach to
legal research.
There are a handful of
legal sites that achieved some success in using
crowdsourcing to build content.
I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of
crowdsourced research
site at which users post
legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.
I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new
legal research
site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for
crowdsourcing references and annotations.
After my post Monday about Law Genius, a
crowdsourcing site for posting and annotating
legal documents, someone pointed me to this Betabeat piece from 2012 that provides further details on the
site's origins as Rap Genius, its funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and its transition from a
site for annotating rap lyrics to one for annotating virtually anything.
It launched in July 2013 as a free
legal research
site that used
crowdsourcing to annotate its cases.
That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative
legal research
site launched this week that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for
crowdsourcing references and annotations.
It was one year ago that I first wrote here about Casetext, the free
legal research
site that uses «
crowdsourcing» to annotate court opinions.
The
site would focus on using
crowdsourcing to enhance access to
legal research.
I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of
crowdsourced research
site at which users post
legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases -LSB-...]
After my post Monday about Law Genius, a
crowdsourcing site for posting and annotating
legal documents, someone pointed me to this Betabeat piece from 2012 that provides further details on the
site's origins as Rap Genius, its funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and its transition from a
site for annotating rap lyrics to one for -LSB-...]
Crowdsourced legal research
site Casetext officially rolled out its new community pages this week.
After visiting Hagan's lab in Palo Alto to learn more, Smith connected with Parker, who is a practicing lawyer and the founder of CO / COUNSEL, a
legal education and
crowdsourcing site, and they began to plan the framework for creating the design lab at BYU.