Years ago, as young student serfs toiling on the law school legal plantation, several of my peers and I "had a vision." It was not as big as some, but hopeful and liberating nonetheless, of legal information being freely accessible to all Americans.

In the era before personal computing and the internet, legal information was the province of a select few — the legal education establishment/overseers: the judges, attorneys, and legal educators who controlled access to the American legal system. "Open and free access" to legal information was a novel and seemingly unattainable goal.

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