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Michael Lissner
The Free Law Project Blog
Our Executive Director talks with Ralph Nader
Our executive director, Michael Lissner, talks with Ralph Nader about why the American legal system is so hard to use and the ongoing fight to make it more accessible.
Jenifer Whiston
New Search Is Now In Beta
Months in the making, our new search engine makes RECAP better than ever.
Michael Lissner
Rise of the Little Case Bots!
Now you can follow topic-based bots on Twitter or Mastodon.
Michael Lissner
In Fight Over Court Records, Free Law Project Joins Others in Asking SCOTUS to Review Sixth Circuit Ruling
Wanting to review a case is all it takes. Nothing more.
Michael Lissner
Responding to Court Warnings about our Systems
Courts are right to take sealed content seriously. We do too.
Michael Lissner
Sanford Law Adopts the RECAP Suite to Automate their Workflows
The @recap.email notification handler helps Sanford process PACER notifications.
Michael Lissner
Tips for the Big Cases Bots
There's more to the bots than you may realize. Let's look at some tips.
Michael Lissner
Relaunching the Big Cases Bot and The Road Ahead
It took some work, but Big Cases is alive again and better than ever (we hope!)
Michael Lissner
What's in the RECAP Suite?
The RECAP Suite has all the tools you need to get and work with PACER data.
Michael Lissner
Use Our Webhooks to Connect PACER to Everything
It only took a couple hours to connect PACER to Google Drive. What else could you make?
Michael Lissner
Launching Webhooks to Finally Automate Legal Data
Plumbing your next legal API has never been easier.
Michael Lissner
More Enhancements to our Database of Judges — Texas and New York
We added another 1,000 judges from New York and Texas to our database.
Michael Lissner
The Free PACER Bill Will Save Money (Despite the CBO Score)
The CBO says free PACER will cost $77M over ten years. That's great, but reality is even better.
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Collaborates with vLex to Launch Complete, Updated, and Audited Open Case Law Database
After ten years of progress, it's time to finish the job of building a comprehensive, complete, and audited database of opinions. With vLex's support, we are going to make it a reality.
Michael Lissner
Building a Robust Email System for CourtListener Alerts and Emails
In this post, we explain how we've designed our email system to be as robust and reliable as possible.
Alberto Islas, Michael Lissner
Personalized @recap.email Addresses Provide CM/ECF Notification Handling for All
Connect your CourtListener account to CM/ECF to contribute to the public and save yourself time and money.
Michael Lissner
Introducing archive@recap.email: The New Way to RECAP
It's time for the next step in how we break down the PACER paywall.
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project to Host Maine Supreme Judicial Court Opinions and Tennessee Workers' Compensation Opinions
We are slowly moving towards becoming a fully-fledged publisher by hosting the opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine and the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Courts.
Michael Lissner
Huge Enhancements to our Database of California Judges
It wasn't easy, but we added 1,400 judges from California to our database.
Michael Lissner
Important Opinions on CourtListener are Now Summarized by the Top Experts — Judges
By identifying, filtering, ranking and grouping parentheticals, we have a powerful new tool.
Michael Lissner
OK, *Now* We Have All the Financial Conflict Information for Judges, Right?
Our Financial Disclosures Database now includes hundreds of nomination disclosures and covers 34 years going back to 1987.
William E. Palin, Esq.
Could You Satisfy the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act with a Google Form? Almost.
No, you couldn't use just a Google Form, but it's close. Let's keep things simple.
Michael Lissner
FLP's Written Testimony on Financial Disclosures for the House Committee on the Judiciary
A summary of our work so far and recommendations on how to fix the innumerable ethics violations uncovered by The Wall Street Journal.
Michael Lissner
Our Financial Disclosure Database is Now Available to All
The wait is over. Thousands of disclosures and over a million judicial investments are now at your fingertips.
Michael Lissner
PACER and CM/ECF are a Threat to National Security and Must be Urgently Overhauled
Why Congress must finally act to urgently and properly fix PACER/CM/ECF.
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Creates the First Online Database of Federal Judicial Financial Disclosures
We are announcing a huge new database of federal financial disclosures. The first of its kind since the disclosures were mandated more than 40 years ago.
William Palin
Free Law Project Awarded Public Access to Government Information Award by AALL
At their latest conference, the AALL awarded FLP with a PAGI!
Michael Lissner
Our Presentation to the FOIA Advisory Committee on the Need for a Public Access Law for the Judicial Branch
Daniel Schuman, from Demand Progress, and our Executive Director, Michael Lissner, present on what FOIA might look like for the legislative and judicial branches.
Michael Lissner
Victory For Public Access To Court Documents
With help from the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkeley, FLP works to keep public documents public.
Brian Carver
Seamus Hughes talks to FLP about PACER fees and fishing for documents
We sit down and chat with PACER and extremism expert Seamus Hughes.
Donny Morrison
All current bankruptcy and federal magistrate judges are now in CourtListener
We have added more than 1,000 more federal magistrate judges to our detailed judicial database.
Jon Ashley, Michael Lissner
As Bloomberg Law imposes caps on PACER access, PACER must support academics.
Bloomberg Law finally says no to unlimited free PACER content. Fair enough. What now?
Michael Lissner
Announcing a New Open Database of Court Information, IDs, and Parsers
News: FLP releases first of its kind system for parsing court names and giving courts unique identifiers.
William E. Palin, Esq., Michael Lissner
Citation Data Gets Richer
We've added many more types of citations to our system.
Matt Dahl
Free Law Project now has every reported U.S. Tax opinion
Our coverage of the tax court caselaw is now complete.
William E. Palin, Esq.
Citation Alerts are Better than Ever
Get an alert when an important case is cited.
Michael Lissner
We've added nearly 1,000 images to our open collection of judge portraits
A picture tells 1,000 words. We just added 1,000 new judicial portraits to our collection.
Jon Ashley, Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Participates in Chilean Judicial Modernization Initiative
Our director flies to Chile during a revolution to help with their judicial modernization effort.
Michael Lissner
Announcing our new PACER Fetch APIs
Now you can use our APIs to scrape PACER. It doesn't get easier than this.
Michael Lissner
Hear Our Executive Director on the Lawyerist Podcast
Michael Lissner
We've Integrated the FJC Integrated Database into CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Tesla and Trump: The Top PACER Documents of 2018
Michael Lissner
Responding to GDPR "Right to Erasure" Requests
The Board
Uploading PACER Dockets and Oral Argument Recordings to the Internet Archive
We are now uploading millions of items to the Internet Archive for permanent preservation.
Michael Lissner
Announcing PACER Docket Alerts for Journalists, Lawyers, Researchers, and the Public
Michael Lissner
An Overview of Free Law Project
A few weeks ago I had the privilege and the pleasure of speaking at the Michigan Association of Law Librarians (MichALL) annual conference. The talk I gave was an overview of Free Law Project and all of our projects, initiatives, and advocacy. Here are the slides from that presentation.
Michael Lissner
The Next Version of RECAP is Now Live
Michael Lissner
Welcoming Ansel Halliburton to our Board
The Board
We Have Every Free PACER Opinion on CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner
More Details on the PACER Vulnerability We Shared with the Administrative Office of the Courts
Michael Lissner
A Million Minutes of Oral Arguments
Michael Lissner
A Complete Chronology of PACER Fees and Policies
Michael Lissner
We've Added Thousands More Citations to Historical Supreme Court Opinions
Michael Lissner
Why We Are Downloading all Free Opinions and Orders from PACER
Michael Lissner
Parties, Attorneys, and Firms are Now Searchable in the RECAP Archive
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project has Notified the Administrative Office of the Courts about a Major Security Vulnerability in the PACER/ECF System
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project to Serve as PACER Data Provider to Department of Labor Grantees at Georgia State University
Michael Lissner
Roundup of House Judiciary Committee's PACER Review
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Makes Emoluments Clause Opinions Searchable in its Collection of Attorney General Advisory Opinions
Michael Lissner
Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Show Oral Arguments Heard
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Receives "Le Hackie" Award from D.C. Legal Hackers for PACER Research and Blogging
Michael Lissner
CourtListener Oral Argument Podcasts Now on iTunes
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Re-Launches RECAP Archive, a New Search Tool for PACER Dockets and Documents
Michael Lissner
Downloading Important Cases on PACER Costs More than a Brand New Car
Michael Lissner
How Much Money Does PACER Make?
Michael Lissner
What is a "Page" of PACER Content?
Michael Lissner
The Cost of PACER Data? Around One Billion Dollars.
Michael Lissner
Iain Carmichael and Michael Kim Present at PyData Carolinas Conference
Michael Lissner
Extracting Text from Our Collection of PACER Documents
Michael Lissner
CourtListener.com Now Supports Oral Arguments from the Second Circuit
Michael Lissner
CourtListener's SCOTUS Data Gets Even Better with Legacy Data from the Supreme Court Database
Michael Lissner
Launching the Next Version of CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner
Retiring and Consolidating RECAP Websites
Michael Lissner
Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Have Campaign Finance Information from the National Institute on Money In State Politics
Michael Lissner
Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Show the Cases Authored by Each Judge
Michael Lissner
Twenty-nine New Jurisdictions and an Improved Interface Coming Soon to CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Second Circuit of Appeals to Finally Place Oral Arguments Online by Default — Write to the Court with Your Suggestions
Michael Lissner
Money for Nothing — How Search Charges Devalue PACER
Michael Lissner
Colin Starger's Talk about Citation Visualizations at CALI Conference
Michael Lissner
Milestone: CourtListener has 365 Days of Continuous Oral Argument Listening
Michael Lissner
New CSV of Reporters of Decisions
Michael Lissner
Ending our PACER Drainage Initiative and Stopping our Email Lists
Michael Lissner
More Information about our Judicial Database and Some Responses to Feedback
Michael Lissner
Notes and Sketches from Making SCOTUS Network Visualizations
Michael Lissner
CourtListener Podcasts Now on Google Play
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project and Princeton/Columbia Researchers Launch First-of-its-Kind Judicial Database
Michael Lissner
Announcing Free Law Project Data Services
Free Law Project is now offering legal data services to answer difficult questions and generate custom data reports.
Michael Lissner
It's easier than ever to contribute to CourtListener and Free Law Project
Michael Lissner
Our Newest Launch: A SCOTUS Data Viz Tool
Michael Lissner
Some Citation Parsing Statistics
Michael Lissner
Releasing V3 of the API, Deprecating V1 and V2
Michael Lissner
Citation Searching on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Millions of New "Short Form" Case Names Now on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Many Improvements Released in New CourtListener Version
Michael Lissner
Launching Free.law Website
Michael Lissner
Our New Citation Finder
Michael Lissner
The Right to Read Anonymously
Brian Carver
New Juriscraper Email List
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project and University of Baltimore to Collaborate to Create Supreme Court Doctrinal Maps
Brian Carver
AI and Law Call for Papers
Brian Carver
Welcoming Thomas Bruce and Jerry Goldman to our Board
Michael Lissner
Knight Foundation to Support OpenJudiciary.org
Brian Carver
Brian and Mike's Presentations from Columbia's Web Archiving Conference
Michael Lissner
Postcards Arriving Soon
Brian Carver
Reporters Database
Michael Lissner
New Versions of RECAP Extensions Out Now!
Michael Lissner
What Should be Done About the PACER Problem?
Brian Carver
Why Should Congress Care About PACER?
Brian Carver
What is the "PACER Problem"?
Brian Carver
Help Agitate to Open Up PACER
Michael Lissner
CourtListener Can Now Send Alerts in Real Time for Donors
Michael Lissner
CourtListener is Now Integrated with the Supreme Court Database
Michael Lissner
Introducing Quick Tips on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Recognized in two one of Top Ten Legal Hacks of 2014 by DC Legal Hackers!
Michael Lissner
CourtListener Adds 7,000 More Oral Arguments
Michael Lissner
Check Out CourtListener's New Paint and Features
Michael Lissner
More Oral Argument News
Michael Lissner
Announcing Oral Arguments on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Senator Leahy Wants PACER Documents Back Online
Brian Carver
Free Law Project Founders Guests on "This Week in Law" Webcast
Michael Lissner
The Importance of Backups
Brian Carver
Free Law Project Joins Request for Access to Offline PACER Documents
Brian Carver
Using PACER — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Brian Carver
CourtListener and Juriscraper Now Support All State Courts of Last Resort!
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Co-Founders Named to Fastcase 50 for 2014
Brian Carver
New Homepage and a CourtListener Revamp
Michael Lissner
Our RECAP partnership with Princeton University's CITP
Brian Carver
Detecting Judicial Corrections
Michael Lissner
LVI 2014 Call for Abstracts
Brian Carver
It is Long Past Time for Free Online Access to the Law
Brian Carver
CourtListner's REST API Featured on Programmable Web
Brian Carver
Free Law Project Calls for License-Free Government Data
Brian Carver
Free Law Project Joins Free Access to Law Movement
Brian Carver
Our New Authorities Table Allows Traveling to the Past
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Unveils API for Court Opinions
Michael Lissner
CiteGeist Powers CourtListener's Newly Improved Search Results
Michael Lissner
Want to Merge Millions of Legal Opinions? It Won't Be Easy.
Michael Lissner
Our New Jurisdiction Picker
Michael Lissner
Free Law Project Adds More than 1.5M Opinions to its Collection Thanks to Data Donation
Michael Lissner
Free Law Virtual Machine Available for Academics and Developers
Michael Lissner
11 New Courts Added to CourtListener and Juriscraper Comprising Nearly 50,000 New Opinions
Michael Lissner
Non-Profit "Free Law Project" Formed to Create an Open Legal Ecosystem
Michael Lissner
Announcing Citation Queries and other Goodies
Michael Lissner
A few small API changes
Michael Lissner
Two RECAP Grants Awarded in Memory of Aaron Swartz
citp
Six new courts added to CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Live coverage graphs now available
Michael Lissner
$10,000 in Further Awards for RECAP Projects
citp
Another new court on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
New Courts at CourtListener with Historical Data
Michael Lissner
A few updates at CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Announcing the Aaron Swartz Memorial Grants
Presentation on Juriscraper and CourtListener for LVI2012
Michael Lissner
New tool for testing lxml XPath queries
Michael Lissner
Announcing the third series of the Federal Reporter!
Michael Lissner
Building a Citator on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Further privacy protections at CourtListener
Michael Lissner
My Presentation Proposals for LVI 2012
Michael Lissner
Announcing OCR Support on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Announcing CourtListener's New Sub-Project: Juriscraper
Michael Lissner
Adding New Fonts to Tesseract 3 OCR Engine
Michael Lissner
The Winning Font in Court Opinions
Michael Lissner
Support for x-robots-tag and robots HTML meta tag
Michael Lissner
Respecting privacy while providing hundreds of thousands of public documents
Michael Lissner
Our Biggest Change Ever is Live!
Michael Lissner
RECAP Featured in XRDS Magazine
Announcements, Updates and the Current Roadmap
Michael Lissner
Second Series of Federal Reporter from 1950 to 1993 now on CourtListener
Michael Lissner
New formats for dump files
Michael Lissner
The abolishment of the Emergency Court of Appeals (April 18, 1962)
Michael Lissner
Site refresh and new features now live!
Michael Lissner
Updated Supreme Court Case Dates and The First Release of Early SCOTUS Data in Machine-Readable Form
Michael Lissner
ABA Webinar: Public Access to Court Records - Protecting Personal Sensitive Information
Schultze and Lee on RECAP at NYLS
Changes and Plans at CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner
RECAP Extension 0.8 Beta Released
RECAP Extension 0.7 Beta Released
RECAP Firefox Search Plugin
Assessing PACER's Access Barriers
New Search and Browsing Interface for the RECAP Archive
More RECAP Events
New PACER Fee Data, RECAP Appearances This Week
Announcing CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner
RECAP, The Press, and Judicial Transparency
RECAP Documents Now More Searchable Via Internet Archive
Work on RECAP for Google Summer of Code 2010
Designing CourtListener
Michael Lissner
Converting PDF Files to HTML
Michael Lissner
RECAP Extension 0.6 Beta Released
RECAP in the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review
Google Project Shows Value of Open Judicial Records
RECAP Media Recap
RECAP in Minnesota Lawyer
An Effort to Define the Ideal "Law.gov"
Schultze on RECAP at Yale
RECAP in the Los Angeles Times and Elsewhere
RECAP's Steve Schultze at the Gov 2.0 Expo
RECAP in the Wall Street Journal
A Note on RECAP's Commitment to Privacy
Tell The Courts to Improve PACER
Accessing the RECAP Repository without PACER
Law Professors, Librarians, and Think Tankers Praise RECAP
The Blogosphere Weighs in on RECAP
A Million Documents At Your Fingertips
Turning PACER Around
RECAP Project — Why It Matters
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