Dr. Thomas R. Bruce, co-founder of Cornell University’s Legal Information Institute, has been named a “Legal Rebel” — that is, a leading innovator in the provision of legal services — by the American Bar Association. The ABA recognized Dr. Bruce and co-director Peter Martin, as “the premier providers of low-cost access to black-letter law, particularly U.S. Code and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and creators of the most-linked-to Web resource in the field of law.”
The ABA credits Dr. Bruce as “as an architect of an integrated system that allows anyone to access cases, statutes, legislation, statistics and analysis from lawyers already sharing their expertise on personal blogs.” The ABA also notes Dr. Bruce’s important work on developing open standards for legal information, and his plans “to eventually integrate [into the LII] commentary, analysis and summaries of the various cases, regulations and articles, which he calls the crown jewels of a service like Westlaw.”
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce on this well-deserved honor. HT to @pcbrannon and @lawlib.
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Dr. Thomas Bruce Named Legal Innovator
By legalinformaticsDr. Thomas R. Bruce, co-founder of Cornell University’s Legal Information Institute, has been named a “Legal Rebel” — that is, a leading innovator in the provision of legal services — by the American Bar Association. The ABA recognized Dr. Bruce and co-director Peter Martin, as “the premier providers of low-cost access to black-letter law, particularly U.S. Code and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and creators of the most-linked-to Web resource in the field of law.”
The ABA credits Dr. Bruce as “as an architect of an integrated system that allows anyone to access cases, statutes, legislation, statistics and analysis from lawyers already sharing their expertise on personal blogs.” The ABA also notes Dr. Bruce’s important work on developing open standards for legal information, and his plans “to eventually integrate [into the LII] commentary, analysis and summaries of the various cases, regulations and articles, which he calls the crown jewels of a service like Westlaw.”
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce on this well-deserved honor. HT to @pcbrannon and @lawlib.
Tags: ABA Legal Rebels, Computer assisted legal research, Cornell University Legal Information Institute, Free access to law, Legal Information Institute, Legal information institutes, Legal information standards, Legal Rebels, Legal social networks, Thomas R. Bruce, Tom Bruce
This entry was posted on September 2, 2009 at 4:44 pm and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.