There are lots of high-quality, crowdsourced resources in the world. Why not legal research? Jake Heller started Casetext with the mission of making the world’s law free and understandable, and one of the ways the company will do that is to use open annotation as a powerful lever. Casetext allows users to tag, annotate, and mark up judicial opinions, crowdsourcing the citator function as well. The company might not employ 8,000 attorney editors, but with 1.1 million lawyers in America, maybe it doesn’t need to. Jake was named to Forbes’s 2014 30 Under 30 for Law and Policy, and previously served as the President of the Stanford Law Review.
