LinkedLegislation Blog

I earlier listed recommendations for the U.S. House's Feb. 2 conference on legislative transparency and accessibility.  These recommendations, to improve the human and machine accessibility of Federal legislation first require changes in the way that legislation is written, and second focus on the technology to support those changes.  Some of these changes... [Read More]

The U.S. House will hold a conference about transparency and legislative data on February 2, 2012 (with remote streaming?).  As Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation writes, "This is a big deal."  In this time of extreme partisanship and one-upmanship in politics, legislative data transparency is both important and that... [Read More]

We're getting a lot of new sign-ups for the private beta of Tabulaw's legal research and writing platform [www.tabulaw.com - archived].  Most of this was triggered by the review by Bob Ambrogi on his blog, LawSitesBlog.com, and word-of-mouth growth from there.  One of the results is that the new users... [Read More]

This year, I hope politicians on both sides of the aisle heed professor Annette Nellen's advice to simplify tax law.  Nellen's article, for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) highlights remarks by IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on simplifying tax law.  Nellen provides a table showing broad agreement between the Commissioner's... [Read More]

In the battle between robots and legal experts, I have a stake in both camps. On the one hand, the site we're developing at Tabulaw, tax26.com, relies heavily on automated parsing of tax law information, in order to organize and display it intelligently for professionals.  On the other hand, this... [Read More]