Were the lights like this all dinner long? Lots of napkin work, if so.

If you’re at LegalWeek and want a peek at what’s possible with open access caselaw, openai and BRYTER, come by our booth (#3108) and say 👋 #LegalWeek23

If you use CourtListener or RECAP and want them to be even better, help us hire our first development director by RTing this job opening so lots of people see it and apply: free.law/hiring/

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So predictable, avoidable and stupid.

Webrecorder is hiring for two full-time roles: - Program Manager - Full Stack Developer webrecorder.net/jobs Help us make open source high-fidelity web archiving tools (used by organizations all over the world) friendlier and more accessible for all!

Norway changes to color television live in 1972

We have a massive opportunity to transform law and legal services to better serve society. We MUST AUTOMATE the majority of what lawyers do today so that we can expand access to the law and justice for EVERYONE in the future. We need to have REAL discussions about the impact of

Open law is an antidote to bad lawyers

I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥 They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing... maggieappleton.com/lm-sketchbook

Continuing my experiments with Anthropic's Claude model. I have to say that I'm mightily impressed. Here, I asked the model to produce a two-part summary of the Divisional Court's 2012 decision in the Chambers v DPP (see bailii.org/cgi-bin/format…)) #legaltech

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I'm voting for @macrocosmcorp to embed all of US Case Law and open-source the weights. alex.macrocosm.so/download

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We have completed adding metadata for about 125-million PACER documents to our database. The data goes back about a decade and took about six months to import. As always, it's all searchable in the RECAP Archive: courtlistener.com/recap/

We're redoing CourtListener's search engine in a major way. What queries have confused or confounded you? How can it be better? We've got a lot of fixes already, but now is a very impactful time to tell us how it has failed you.

Do you believe in open legal information? We're looking for sponsors of Big Cases Bot (Deprecated) and our other case bots. Your support would help buy legal docs from history-making cases, and your name would be seen by tens of thousands of legal watchers. Info here: bots.law/big-cases/spon…

1978 hot-take on Word Processors: "They will not cause massive unemployment"

Used a couple different LLMs to conduct a mock jury trial exercise. Very interesting way for lawyers to explore case strategies & identify gaps? Or a very dangerous exercise? Btw, it’s def dangerous if you don’t know how to prompt these tools. More thoughts next week. #LegalTech