LinkedLegislation Blog

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]

[Edit: Sign up to join us here (Facebook event)]The California Codes Hackathon, now scheduled for September 17 in San Francisco and Denver, is gathering steam.In addition to the excellent hackers who've signed up to prepare data for the hackathon (check out the wiki), supporters now include: Sunlight Foundation (thanks, Laurenellen McCann... [Read More]

Last week, Amazon Web Services notified me that something went wrong with the hardware hosting our California Codes site (calaw.tabulaw.com [archived]). Bad timing, given our preparation for a California Law Hackathon. I built this originally as a side project and didn't have a back-up (note to future self), so I... [Read More]