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When people look at your laws online, what do they see? Does the styling match your government’s online presence? Or are your laws presented with the styles your publisher selected? Is it branded with the government’s logo or with a software [...]

As legal research resources continue to transition to the digital realm, it is imperative that governing bodies take all necessary steps to ensure that their laws are accessible to everyone, including and especially individuals with disabilities.  With ADA website compliance litigation on [...]

Open Law Library’s Private Notes make it easy for colleagues to collaborate on legislation and to share legal research.  With Private Annotations lawmakers, subject matter experts, and attorneys can write and share notes directly on their digital law libraries. Users can [...]

With the recent increase in politically and economically motivated cyberattacks on every level of our governments, it has never been more important to anticipate and eliminate potential vulnerabilities to data from constantly evolving cybercriminal threats.  This is especially true with online [...]

Citizens rely on their governments’ laws to guide them when making both professional and personal decisions.  As such, it is imperative that laws reflect the individuality of their governments, all while maintaining a professional look free from structural and syntactic errors.  [...]

The standard model for online legal publishers is to collect all their partners’ laws in a single database and disseminate them onto a generic website.  Because all publications—and the vast legal data used to make them—are run through the same platform, [...]

The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) is a uniform act developed by the Uniform Law Commission that provides governments with “an outcomes-based approach to the authentication and preservation of electronic legal material.” Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (July 2011). It [...]

Imagine if you could view the law exactly as it was written at any specific point in time with just a click. No more sifting through long volumes and pocket parts! No more going down the rabbit hole of legal research or [...]