LinkedLegislation Blog

Our work continues to translate the results of the first California Laws Hackathon for public consumption:A small core of hackers, consisting of Grant Vergottini, Greg Willson, Mike Tahani and myself (with support from Karen Suhaka's excellent team at BillTrack50) is moving forward to apply the sample timeline to all  sections of California's codes, and... [Read More]

Seven Google + hangouts, four countries, dozens of tweets, many coffees, discussions and coding sessions later, ready to call it a night for the California Law Hackathon. (twitter hashtag #calawhack).  Special guest appearance by John Sheridan, architect of legislation.gov.uk and guidance on California data APIs from Grant Vergottini, architect of... [Read More]

If you haven't yet heard the news, we're having a Hackathon for California Legislation. Feel free to spread the announcement below to friends and lists who might be interested.Join us this Saturday to hack world-class apps for California's legislation. This hackathon was born on the Sunlight Foundation's Open State project... [Read More]

Waldo Jaquith of the StateDecoded, and Matt Carey have added a number of excellent ideas for organizing California's laws as part of our California Law Hackathon (RSVP here). Do you have ideas for the hackathon?  Add them here*:https://code.google.com/p/calaw/wiki/FeatureProposalsCurrent ideas include:Cluster related code sections, for search and navigationCreate a timeline view... [Read More]

A transformation is taking place in the legal technology industry. An article article by Paula Hane in InfoToday entitled "Upstart Legal Services Gain Traction", highlights a number of new online services that are challenging traditional models - both in technology and legal practice. (Disclosure: there is a nice section on... [Read More]