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Crowdsourcing Legal Research: The Opportunities And Challenges, Pat Newcombe
Crowdsourcing Legal Research: The Opportunities And Challenges, Pat Newcombe
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Crowdsourcing legal research has the potential to change how legal information is accessed and shared by providing free and value-added resources to the legal community. This Article explores legal crowdsourcing attempts, focusing on Casetext and Mootus. Although the ideal crowdsourcing legal research site has yet to be realized, crowdsourcing has a future because it embodies the concept of social justice and the next generations of attorneys will likely be open to collaboration.