FindLaw Launches LawBrain.com

LawBrain.com is Launched

FindLaw just released LawBrain (http://lawbrain.com/) . LawBrain is a social wiki where legal professionals, scholars, and students can collaborate and contribute to improve everyone’s access to legal information.

What is LawBrain?
It's a living community making U.S. law accessible and interactive. LawBrain was launched in January 2010 with more than 4,500 entries ranging from legal terms & topics to milestone cases. The new site is already an amazing resource and will only get better as the community develops.

Mission:
To build an open community where citizens, lawyers, students, scholars can collaboratively learn, discuss and make U.S. law more relevant and understandable for all of us. Our community aims to be a place where lawyers, librarians, scholars and consumers can interact, share & learn together. Community projects help to document the changing laws around legal topics that affect everyone.

The purpose of this community is not to build another citation archive, but to build a vibrant community and resource for citizens; and for scholars and students, and legal professionals a means of sharing expertise & knowledge. LawBrain provides an opportunity to:

• Collaborate on building shared knowledge and creating a whitespace for community legal research projects for professionals, scholars or consumers.
• Share research, thought leadership, and opinions making updates to case law and perspective on breaking events more relevant.
• Make the law more accessible and understandable.
• Key differentiation from Wikipedia is the solicitation of opinion as our laws and legal structures evolve.

Example Legal Topics Currently Being Edited on LawBrain:
• Texting While Driving: http://lawbrain.com/wiki/Texting_while_driving
• Gay Marriage Legislation: http://lawbrain.com/wiki/Gay_Marriage_Legislation
• Driving Under the Influence (DUI/DWI): http://lawbrain.com/wiki/Driving_Under_the_Influence_(DUI_/_DWI)
• E-Discovery: http://lawbrain.com/wiki/E-Discovery