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Mitch McD
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Yevrah CLI -- A very modest legal research tool.

Built a CLI tool to make CourtListener searches easier - translates "slip and fall, California, last 5 years" into proper API queries.

Thanks to @free.law for the amazing free case law API 🙏

Open source: github.com/legaltextai/...

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January 12, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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This appears to be a major threat to legal innovation. TR is attempting to patent RAG for legal research — ie, the thing where you chat with a bot that provides links to case law. Patent lawyers, please weigh in!
May 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
legaltextai.bsky.social
@westlaw.bsky.social is in the process of patenting retrieval augmented generation of legal texts. i hope it is just for defensive purposes. how can they claim novelty on the use of RAG in legal field?! patents.google.com/patent/WO202...
WO2025085566A1 - Retrieval-augmented content generation for legal research - Google Patents
Embodiments support systems and methods for large language model (LLM)-assisted research tools that support retrieval-augmented content generation. In an aspect, the disclosed systems and methods may ...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM