igurari

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by igurari 17y ago
That is very true. The value in this is for lawyers; lay people have always had a hard time finding and understanding the law. This may help a lay person, but Google's implementation appears to really be focused on lawyers.
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by igurari 17y ago
This is a huge deal. Having worked in this space for 1.5 years, I can say definitively that Google's ranking algorithm works extremely well. Their UI is solid, though it has room for improvement. They tackled a number of other huge problems
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by igurari 17y ago
Contrary to what most people here have said, I believe there is a use for such a service. However you would have to focus on a niche. Lawyers time their tasks - they bill by increments as short as 6 minutes. To be useful for lawyers you wou
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by igurari 17y ago
PACER records are public, even that they cost money to access. So are most of the records on Lexis and Westlaw. Westlaw has tried to claim a copyright in certain annotations on the court documents, but they have no copyright in the text of
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by igurari 17y ago
I don't think I am discounting how much of a difference it makes. My point is simply that without the 1 million documents Malamud handed over, the tool would be largely useless for many months if not years. What Recap does is make Malamud's
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by igurari 17y ago
It's clever, but we'll have to wait and see how much it actually adds to the collection of documents freely available. The bulk of the Recap repository was seeded with documents Malamud collected. Of course, Recap appears to be a nice way t
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by igurari 18y ago
An alternative to placing site guidelines on a welcome page or in the navigation header (where I believe they would eventually be glossed over) would be to link to the guidelines from within inappropriate comments. If a comment gets downmod
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by igurari 18y ago
I have yet to do this, but if I end up working with my friend, it will likely only be under such a structure. Although it requires a more detailed and explicit contract up front, so long as the benchmarks, time frame, and price are reasonab
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by igurari 18y ago
I am presently in a very similar situation. One possibile solution suggested to me by a lawyer friend would be to set up two companies: one jointly owned by you and your friend, and the other owned solely by yourself. Your company would own