Legal Wikis
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Legal Wikis
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 08:18:45 -0400
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http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1178269484628
Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You
By Robert J. Ambrogi
Law Technology News
May 7, 2007
When published in 1999, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig's
book, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace," earned praise from a reviewer
as "paradigm-shifting."
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Neither are wikis new to the legal profession. Denver lawyer John
DeBruyn has been experimenting with wikis as a tool for lawyer-to-lawyer
collaboration since at least 1997. But in the legal world, as elsewhere,
wikis have become more widely used in the last year or two.
LEGAL WIKIS
[listing of legal wikis]
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Of course, there are many innovative wikis outside the legal sphere. For
example, the parent company of Wikipedia, Wikimedia
<http://www.wikimedia.org/>, hosts Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikiversity and
Wikispecies. Go forth and explore, but be wiki about it.
Robert Ambrogi, is a Massachusetts lawyer and media consultant. He
writes the blogs LawSites and Media Law, both available through
www.legaline.com. You may contact him at rambrogi@[redacted]