Contribute your Expert Knowledge to Help Build the First Open-Source AI-Powered Legal Citator
We at Free Law Project are building the first open-source legal Citator powered by AI and we need your help to take it to the next level.
Citators are critical tools to identify "bad case law," so that people do not rely on it, but until now citators have only been available in expensive platforms.
In our last month's progress report, we showed the significant progress we're making to advance the Citator project, and we’re now at a pivotal stage: to systematically evaluate our Citator, we must grow our expert-annotated dataset of citation treatments.
If you’re excited about open-source technology and passionate about advancing access to legal information, we invite you to volunteer for our Citator Expert Annotation Project.
What’s involved?
As a volunteer, you'll review citations between legal decisions and identify treatments of cited decisions (e.g., overruled, reversed, distinguished, etc.) applied.
The work is flexible: you set your own hours and we’ll assign cases that best align with your schedule.
Why does it matter?
A good AI model begins with great data.
Your careful, high-quality annotations will directly shape the accuracy and integrity of the Citator we’re building—one that can serve the legal community for years to come. We expect this to be huge for those using the American legal system, particularly those that might not have access to expensive paid services.
If you're interested in contributing to this open-source effort, please send us at email at rachel@free.law or fill out this form. We’ll be in touch with next steps.
