PreCYdent Alert legal Bloggers Of Their Product

Written by Sean Hocking

We only note this because we're surprised that over the years we've never received a direct email like the one below from Lexis or West. It'd be so easy for them to create a legal bloggers database and send messages like this ... They write: Dear Blogger We are pleased to invite you to visit our alpha site, www.precydent.com. PreCYdent believes that all lawyers, law librarians, law students, and the general public should have access to state-of-the-art search technology to help them navigate the large and complex body of legal authority. We have heard law students ask about online legal research: "Why can't I just do my search with a few search words, like I do on Google?" PreCYdent has an answer: Now you can. PreCYdent also believes that all judicial opinions and statutes should be in the public domain, in practice as well as in theory. To us this means that effective legal research in all of these materials should be free to the user. Not expensive or inexpensive. Free. This open access to law is of vital importance in the United States, and all countries that aspire to the rule of law. The PreCYdent alpha contains U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals cases, and we are working hard to extend our service to cover all U.S. federal and state cases and statutory materials. We already have recent cases of many important States such as New York, Florida, California and Illinois. By registering you can also become a member of the PreCYdent professional network we are building. We are creating a space where people interested in law will be able to share knowledge, find help and to exchange experiences. We are going to integrate our effort with existing successful social communities. You can install a PreCYdent widget on your blog. This will allow your visitors to do a search for a case directly from your blog. If you blog about law, this would be a useful feature for your users. Here’s the link where you can find the code, which you just have to copy and paste into your page: http://www.precydent.com/onyourweb.html We want to change the way lawyers find law, and make it so easy you don’t have to be a lawyer to do it. We plan to apply our technology also in other domains as well. We’ve created a cause on Facebook to support the spread of free legal knowledge over Internet: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/65268?recruiter_id=7998628 Also here's a you Tube Introduction Video Best regards The PreCYdent team

 

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