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DeathofGiantFirms 4 - 19 Jan 2008 - Main.KateVershov
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the death of the giant firm? (Work in progress) Started this on the plane to Chicago.
Since our grade is partly based on whether we’re ethical, I must credit Sandor for arguing that the legal product includes trust, and Justin Colannino for predicting that Wexis will be assimilated into Googles and Wikipedias.
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 I'm not awake enough to address the main question, but I just want to note that Wexis may not disappear as much as add value to hang on--for example, headnotes, the key number index, and so on. The core of the judicial opinions--public domain--is increasingly available free on court websites and on Columbia's own altlaw.org, but until someone starts writing public domain headnotes and indices (or until someone develops a MUCH smarter search for law), Wexis will be here to stay (without even mentioning all the secondary sources that will need to be freed or still bought and made available in print). Anyway, until someone starts writing these for free, competitors will need to pay someone to write their own or pay West etc. and keep feeding them.

-- DanielHarris - 19 Jan 2008

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Back to the original question Andrew posed: I'm not entirely sure why we should expect the death of the law firm anytime soon, either. Anyone have ideas about why Eben said this? Or your own thoughts on the matter?

-- KateVershov - 19 Jan 2008

 
 
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