It was just 18 months ago that I wrote about the legal research startup Midpage passing what its founder considered a critical threshold in its development, achieving full data coverage of key U.S. case law.
Now the company is crossing another threshold, adding full coverage of the other major chunk of primary law — statutes, regulations, constitutions and agency guidance for all 50 states and the federal government.
For Midpage founder and CEO Otto Zastrow, the release is the company’s most significant since it launched its Midpage Data service six months ago, because it means that both lawyers and the growing number of legal tech companies that license Midpage’s data can now get comprehensive primary law — case law and codified law alike — from a single source.
“For the entire world of people building things in legal tech, they can now get both of these pieces from one place,” Zastrow told me in an interview earlier this week. “We’re pretty sure that this is the highest quality and highest coverage dataset for U.S. regulations out there.”
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