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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