 Free Law Project Logo | |
| Abbreviation | FLP |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2013-09-24 |
| Founders | Michael Lissner, Brian Carver |
| Founded at | Emeryville, CA |
| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| 46-3342480 | |
| Registration no. | C3594588 |
| Legal status | Charity |
| Headquarters | Oakland, CA |
| Services | CourtListener, RECAP, Bots.law |
Executive Director | Michael Lissner |
| Michael Lissner, Brian Carver, Ansel Halliburton | |
| Website | free |
Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) Oakland-based[1] nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora.[2] Free Law Project has several initiatives that collect and share legal information, including the largest [3] collection of American oral argument audio,[4] daily collection of new legal opinions from 200 United States courts and administrative bodies, the RECAP Project, which collects documents from PACER, and user-generated Supreme Court citation visualizations. Their data helped The Wall Street Journal expose 138 cases of conflict of interest cases regarding violations by federal judges.[3][5]
Free Law Project was founded in 2013 by Michael Lissner and Brian Carver.[6]
- ^ Justin Rau (October 5, 2021). "Crime and Courts". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
- ^ "Free Law Project". Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ a b Coulter Jones; James V. Grimaldi; Joe Palazzolo (September 28, 2021). "How the Journal Found Judges' Violations of Law on Conflicts". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
- ^ "Milestone: CourtListener has 365 Days of Continuous Oral Argument Listening". June 8, 2016. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
- ^ Kate Linebaugh (October 1, 2021). "The Federal Law That 138 Judges Have Broken". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
this guy out in Oakland .. works for this nonprofit called the Free Law Project .. project going on for several years, to obtain from the administrative office of the courts, every financial disclosure for every federal judge, and digitize it.
- ^ Taylor A. Vega (September 29, 2013). "Free Law Project provides access to legal materials and research for public". The Daily Californian. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
The Free Law Project, a new California nonprofit, launched Tuesday and will provide free and easy access to legal material and research for anyone to download.