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We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact. Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice. This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...

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I miss Joe Biden. I'm still mad at the people that did him dirty.

i'm not a lawyer, is it considered good practice to include the ChatGPT "here you go! let me know if you need anything else!" paragraph in your brief that also has at least nine citations to cases that don't exist? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Vote for our #SOCAP25 session! Rethinking Capital: How a Nonprofit Can Provide the Fuel for Tech Breakthroughs #LegalTech needs funding before VC kicks in. What if nonprofits filled the gap? Join us to explore #CatalyticCapital, the game-changer for legal innovation. socapglobal.com/session-idea...

Vote for our #SOCAP25 session Leveraging Technology to Access the Hidden Justice Market & Improve Economic Mobility Millions face court alone—evictions, debt, custody. Can tech bridge the #justice gap? Explore solutions that empower litigants & modernize courts. #A2J socapglobal.com/session-idea...

To start the weekend, we've got a brand new experience for case law on CourtListener. It has better typography, more features and metadata, five million scanned decisions from @harvardlil.bsky.social, and a lot more. Read all about it and let us know what you think: free.law/2025/03/21/c...

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This is going to be a great session! Please vote to move it forward to the next stage.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries. The Trump administration has placed roughly 80% of the agency's staff on administrative leave.

Do you want one of these sweet D20s? If you attend #LITCon2025 you can have one. Join us in Boston on April 7, 2025 to talk about law, innovation, and technology. And yes there will be some role playing. Register here: suffolklitlab.org/events/lit-c...

On Friday we launched a brand new interface for case law, making it faster and much more powerful. Read about it below and let us know what you think! We think it's a huge step forward.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Just understanding what the judge and other attorneys are saying is only a small part of what creates the barrier to justice for millions of people. #A2J #SelfRepresentedLitigants www.tiktok.com/@odsandra/vi...

this is one of the best things you can do for yourself and i honestly believe that the fact that so many fail at it is why were are where we are

Have a PACER doc you really want, but you used up your free $30 of the quarter? Feel like bestowing some free PACER docs on strangers? This is such a fun project.

This type of judicial research is another reason why we need to open PACER. Hidden biases must be rooted out and addressed, not buried in inaccessible data.

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Most members of the public have little reason to be aware of 18F, or will understand what its loss signifies. So this post tries to capture that, by including the voices of those who worked there. First, from @waldo.net

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New paper using our data shows a correlation between case outcomes and judicial investment conflicts. "We find robust evidence that judges appear to rule more favorably and take longer when deciding over conflicted cases" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CourtListener's daily web traffic is up about 2×, and our PDF traffic is up much more than that (see chart below). If you like what we're doing, we could surely use more support! donate.free.law/forms/donate

This is why every law firm that practices in any federal court should install the Recap extension on their browser.

What does FLP have to do with Mount Everest, Taylor Swift, backyard chickens, and the residents of Chicago, DC, Boston, and Denver?? Read our Director's EOY Letter to find out!! free.law/fundraiser/2...

In the 1970s, jeans weren’t considered presidential. Then came President Jimmy Carter. Carter, who died on Sunday, would prove to be an Oval Office trendsetter. Nearly all the presidents who followed him were captured wearing jeans while in office.

Continuing our look at Free Law Project in 2024. We send out a lot of emails!! Mostly alerts to keep people updated on the cases they are interested in. (We also help people with forgotten passwords) To see more about what we were up to - free.law/fundraiser/2...

Checking out the scope of Free Law Project's work in 2024. This one is for the Swifties! To learn about what we have in store for 2025, read this letter from our Executive Director - free.law/fundraiser/2...

Our annual letter is out! In it, we discuss our successes from 2024 and our plans for 2025. Give it a read and please consider a donation to support this work. (Link at end of thread.) free.law/fundraiser/2... 1/6

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Ridiculously cool job alert! We’re looking for a developer to seriously explore what more can be done with real, non-snake-oil AI on our massive corpus of US case law, for 6 months. This is genuinely high-impact work. Please share! #NLP #A2J #AI #LegalTech #Python

One thing you learn when you practice in different jurisdictions is that the way you did things back home is not necessarily the best way In not having widespread neutral citations, the US is undoubtedly behind much of the common law world

OK, this feature isn't ready for prime time, but soon CourtListener will send you alerts when PACER filings cite particular case law.

Our Executive Director answers 3 questions from Gaston Kroub at Above the Law - here is Part 1: abovethelaw.com/2024/10/3-qu...

You guys? The pink? Are showing negligible differences in Trump / Harris donor numbers. That's north central indiana, which is NOT the blue bubble of NWI. If y'all are adding to you election wish lists, Mike Braun may get shut out of the Indiana Governor race.

Amateur vote fraud sleuth: “We found an address in Erie, Pa. with 53 voters and NO ONE lives there. We will not let the Dems steal votes.” Benedictine Sisters of Erie: “It’s a monastery and we do live here. Folks, please don’t believe every nutty claim you read on X.”

Seriously, though, if you're a lawyer or journalist who covers litigation and *don't* have the RECAP chrome extension, use CourtListener, and donate to the Free Law Project, what's the matter with you? www.courtlistener.com

A new bookstore co-founded by RuPaul will send a rainbow school bus across the U.S. to give away books targeted by bans. It follows a spike in efforts to restrict access to library books, particularly those by or about LGBTQ people or people of color. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/a...

Late last year, we placed three information requests with the judiciary and gave them 20 business days to respond. It has now been 25 days with very little response, so we are following up. Original details here: free.law/2023/12/19/j...

Version 2.5.0 of RECAP is out! Some nice privacy changes: - RECAP is now hidden when you print. - ECF users now have two buttons when buying docs. One to RECAP the doc & one to buy it without sharing. - Privacy policy is simplified and clarified. More notes here: github.com/freelawproje...

Last year we re-launched @bigcases.bots.law with a sponsorship system so orgs can help liberate legal documents to the public commons. In 2023, this system opened up more than 2,000 important legal documents! We're looking for more sponsors: bots.law/big-cases/sp...

We Power Innovation! descrybe.ai & LawDroid Copilot are in the top 15! They need your vote to stay there & have the opportunity to make it to the ABA TECH SHOW Startup Alley! Deadline to vote is 12/29 Vote - www.lawnext.com/aba-techshow... Read More - free.law/2023/12/12/a...

New feature just landed in CourtListener. Now, when you load a federal case or filing, we'll have an "Authorities" tab with all the case law that supports the case or filing. Coming soon is the ability to search for federal filings that cite certain case law! free.law/2023/12/08/r...

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I think these will be some of the first bots on Blue Sky.

The judiciary is failing to follow the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act that we helped pass last year. The act requires that judicial conflict information be promptly posted, and the judiciary just can't get it done. With quotes from our director: www.law360.com/legalindustr...

Our executive director was on the Ralph Nader podcast! If you want to learn more about our work, this is one of the best interviews we've ever done. Start at minute 26 and let us know what you think! free.law/2023/11/27/n...

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