Free Law Project ⚖
We are the non-profit host of RECAP, CourtListener, and the Big Cases bots. We use technology and advocacy to make the legal sector better.
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- Our director was on the Organized Money podcast talking about monopoly powers in the legal space. It's a great, wonky conversation about why legal research is so expensive, the barriers to fixing it — And how we're working to break them down! prospect.org/2026/01/30/o...
- We’re experiencing extremely high pressure on our search engine. We’re working to find the cause.
- We're rolling out a couple of changes today that should help support our mission without impacting many of our users. 1. In 2016, we launched a tool to make SCOTUS visualizations. We're deprecating it today. 2. We're making bulk data available quarterly instead of monthly. 1/6
- The second and ninth circuits overhauled their websites again, so RECAP is not working there. We’re working on a fix, but reverse engineering takes time. Hopefully this week.
- @free.law is this a known bug for the Second Circuit right now? Scrolled y'all's profile a while and didn't see a mention of RECAP not working for appellate courts specifically or in general right now
- Our x-ray tool is featured on the Real Python podcast!
- On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk performance topics, spec-driven dev, and more. With content from: @misrasaurabh1.bsky.social @mkennedy.codes @di.github.io @andrewnez.bsky.social @francoisz.bsky.social @robbowley.net @free.law and others not on the 🦋
- In September we shared that our new API had served one hundred million requests in about a year. Just hit 250 million. free.law/2025/09/29/o...
- Apologies for the downtime we just experienced. We're still evaluating what happened, but first look seems to be that traffic to CourtListener doubled in a matter of seconds and overwhelmed our DB. Likely cause: Scrapers.
- In case you missed it, our director's annual letter came out during the holidays. It's a good read and shows just how impactful your contributions can be. We're building a better legal system, one day at a time, and your support really helps! free.law/fundraiser/2...
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖This is such a great conference, a must attend for those working in access to justice tech. It's chock full of all the people who care, who are doing the things, and who want to collaborate and build a better legal system. Propose a session (due tomorrow) or plan to attend in October!
- Last call! Proposals for the 2026 #AccessToJusticeNetwork Conference are due 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 (Jan 7). If you’re working on anything that expands access to justice - we hope you’ll submit a session. 📅 Cincinnati • Oct 20–22, 2026 📝 Form: buff.ly/p28UYA3
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?
- To usher in the new year, two of our main servers failed and did not get automatically replaced. We were down for about two hours, but we're back now. Apologies for the trouble and downtime. We're investigating the root cause.
- HNY! We just released a new version of our high-performance, scalable cache for Django. Details here: www.reddit.com/r/freelawpro...
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖I do a lot with legal data, so as you can imagine I love this nonprofit! They can add to this list reporting for @nbcnews.com-owned stations. If anyone has a good tutorial for their new API, please send it, as I have yet use it much. Fantastic resource if you are interested in federal court data.
- Our annual director’s letter is out, and, well, it has been an incredible year. Please give it a read to learn about our growth, what we’ve accomplished, and what we hope to do next year. Thank you to all our supporters, big and small. free.law/fundraiser/2...
- Reposting this for those that missed it last week. We hope you’ll check out what we accomplished and consider supporting our work.
- Our annual director’s letter is out, and, well, it has been an incredible year. Please give it a read to learn about our growth, what we’ve accomplished, and what we hope to do next year. Thank you to all our supporters, big and small. free.law/fundraiser/2...
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖NEW: One brought a gun home. One moved. Others improved home security. Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
- Our annual director’s letter is out, and, well, it has been an incredible year. Please give it a read to learn about our growth, what we’ve accomplished, and what we hope to do next year. Thank you to all our supporters, big and small. free.law/fundraiser/2...
- We’re making the legal system better with software, advocacy, and data. If you like that kind of thing, please consider a donation. It helps. free.law/donate
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖Again: As noted in my next skeet, The Free Law Project (which is also home to RECAP, Courtlistener, etc.) is one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.
- Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...
- Some of the stats in our director's letter are simply astounding. It'll be out early next week.
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖I've been following a pair of odd FOIA cases in D.D.C. brought by America First Legal. The cases argue that the Government Accountability Office (which is part of Congress) and the Judicial Conference and Administrative Office for the Courts (which are in the Judicial Branch) are subject to FOIA.
- Reposted by Free Law Project ⚖The judiciary's motion to dismiss America First Legal's FOIA case against the Judicial Conf. is GRANTED. Our take: yes, parts of the judiciary should absolutely be subject to FOIA. But this suit isn't the way to do it & Judge McFadden thankfully agreed: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- We're proud to share that our data is now being used by HeinOnline in their incredible platform. 🎉 free.law/2025/12/10/h...
- We’re proud this year to become a major source for many investigative journalists. Today’s example is a six-byline article in the NYT that references FLP as a major source. Data ➡️ Information ➡️ Reporting ➡️ Knowledge ➡️ Change. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
- We put our founding date as our BlueSky birthday and got locked out of BlueSky last week during the heart of fundraising season. Our budget for next year is looking tight and we’re trimming our agenda. If you can help us with a donation, we will put it to truly good use! free.law/donate/
- Our mostly-monthly newsletter just went out and it's a doozy: - Launch of Justice Initiatives - Three awards - Semantic search API is live - A podcast with @jessicafrank.bsky.social - An amicus brief we led - Fast keyword alerts for PACER Wowza. Sign up here: donate.free.law/np/clients/f...
