Sentences with phrase «free legal research materials»

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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.

What if a free legal research site could post cases and other primary legal materials and ask its users to help enhance, explain and explicate those materials?

I blogged earlier today about how Fastcase is disrupting the legal publishing field, providing free access to core legal research materials.

Started in 2010, CourtListener is part of the broader Free Law Project, a non-profit devoted to providing free online access to primary legal materials and to developing legal research toFree Law Project, a non-profit devoted to providing free online access to primary legal materials and to developing legal research tofree online access to primary legal materials and to developing legal research tools.

Number 4, «Auction off legal research access to West or Lexis,» is interesting and it would be a good start — Wexis should definitely have to pay more for its captive audience — but I'd definitely take this further: Put Wexis out of business, either by using eminent domain to buy them out (replacing their for - profit services with non-profit analogues), or by simply creating a publicly - funded competitor that offers the same material for free to anyone with an internet connection.

Bear in mind that it is free for law firms to participate in the research process for directories like Chambers and Legal 500, but the costs arise from the considerable staff and lawyer time taken to produce the materials and engage in the process.