LinkedLegislation Blog

This Sunday, August 7 at 1pm PST, we are having a virtual + in-person planning meeting for the hackathon, with a twitter hashtag #CaLawHack.I've set up a collaborative editor at https://rasa.tabulaw.com/p/calaw so we can jot notes for the planning meeting itself.Look for more details on govfresh.com, where Luke Fretwell has... [Read More]

So it's not quite Wikileaks, and it's actually officially sanctioned by California's Legislative Counsel. But an email I recently received on Sunlight Foundation's OpenStates listserv could be the first step to fully opening up California's legislation to the public. In the world of legislative transparency, this counts as exciting stuff.I've... [Read More]

Last week's NYT OpEds on law school reform continue to reverberate in the legal community - especially among law students and recent graduates.One answer for graduates, as I suggested, is to proactively define and promote their own expertise.  Another is for this generation of new graduates to join with other... [Read More]

Following a number of scathing articles over the last few weeks about law school graduates accumulating tremendous debt with few job prospects, the New York Times today published opinions from a variety of legal pundits about reforming law school. Many of the opinions revolved around the theme of increasing experiential... [Read More]

So, while Congress debates whether to raise the debt limit or cause catastrophic damage to the country's economy, we diligently worked on making further improvements in the way we display tax law on tax26.com.  And one of the items that is causing our parsing engine to choke, is Section 139D... [Read More]