joannahuey

Interesting. We haven't implemented third-party integration, but we'll definitely think about it. Feel free to contact us if you have particular suggestions.

That's a great idea, thanks!

Thanks for the information! It'd be great to chat some more about what you've found out.

Interesting -- we haven't gotten other requests for this change, but we'll keep it on our radar. One possibility would be to add settings for text display that allow people to choose justification (along with font size and other such things).

We're planning on adding regulations and statutes, and the annotation platform should generally work for these texts as well. As you noted, there's a version control issue, and we're still thinking about the best way to deal with it. One possibility would be to have the text appear as a redline, which would make keeping all annotations alongside the text possible. Alternatively or in addition, we could have a revision history of the text (allowing you to view and compare older versions) -- then, the easiest way to manage annotations might be to keep annotations for paragraphs that haven't changed in the newer version, but to have annotations for changed paragraphs only appear in the older versions.

Not crazy at all! But, we think we can get higher quality annotations by focusing on building a community of lawyers interested in demonstrating their expertise (to build their online reputation or get referrals) than by hiring clerks.

We are working on improving search by grouping cases by issue -- users can already tag cases with various legal terms, and we'll incorporate those tags into search to improve the results.

Glad you're excited! We agree that there's a ton of room for innovation in the area. And thanks for the advice -- definitely a great idea to better understand the market and add to our first-hand experience.

Thanks for asking! At the moment, we automatically link all citing cases and then allow users to categorize them (by negative, distinguishing, and positive treatment) and to write a bit of context explaining how the case is relevant. In the future, we'd also like to automate some of the categorization.