Lawyers innovate to adapt crowdsourcing to legal advice

Lawyers in the US are copying internet ideas such as crowdsourcing and Wikipedia to offer legal analysis and views online.

Lawyers in the US are copying internet ideas such as crowdsourcing to offer legal analysis and views online. iQoncept

Adam Ziegler, a former litigator from Boston, is using a crowdsourcing model to bring together the legal analysis of anyone who wants to contribute on his Mootus site. Users can suggest a theme and contributors will then give their opinions. Similarly, Jake Heller, formerly of  law firm Ropes & Gray, set up Casetext. The site brings together the opinions of contributors as well as publicly available content such as legal documents and the websites of law firms. He says: 'I saw how every other field of information had been revolutionized by crowdsourcing….I kept thinking, 'When will law catch up?' .' Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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