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Open Law Library Asks “Why isn’t there a Google for the law?”

It’s the difference between searching Google for “weather right now” or “Chinese restaurants”, and “I’m being evicted, what are my rights?”. The first two queries reliably provide accurate information about current weather conditions and nearby Chinese restaurants for most people. But the top result for someone trying to avoid eviction is a website from the UK, even for searches made from the US. At best, this information from another jurisdiction isn’t very helpful. At worst, it might mislead someone on the edge of eviction into a false sense of security if the UK offers greater protections for tenants than wherever they live.

Source: Open Law Library – Why isn’t there a Google for the law?

A very good question of course and one that many have been trying to answer since before there was a Google. I’ve been a bit out of the loop for a couple of years so I probably missed the launch of the Open Law Library. Looks like an interesting approach. Anyone out there have more info to share?

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My Twitter Digest for 12/22/2016

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My Twitter Digest for 12/21/2016

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Mitchell Hamline and Minnesota County Attorneys Association create new residency program for students – News and Events – Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Under a new residency program created by Mitchell Hamline School of Law and the Minnesota County Attorneys Association (MCAA), Mitchell Hamline students will have the opportunity to receive hands-on legal training in county attorney offices throughout the state.

The Mitchell Hamline/Minnesota County Attorney Law Student Residency Program will allow qualified students to work in county attorney offices while earning academic credits from the school.

Source: Mitchell Hamline and Minnesota County Attorneys Association create new residency program for students – News and Events – Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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MariaDB ColumnStore Adds Simultaneous Analytics, Transactional Processing – The New Stack


InnoDB or the other default MySQL storage engine MyISAM provide reasonable performance on analytical query workloads up to 100,000 rows or tables under a million rows. Performance is harder to tune and maintain beyond that, Thompson wrote in a blog post.
ColumnStore is suitable for reporting or analysis on much larger data sets. Mobile applications of customer Pinger, for example, process millions of text messages and phone calls with ColumnStore, in addition to more than 1.5 billion rows of logs per day.

Source: MariaDB ColumnStore Adds Simultaneous Analytics, Transactional Processing – The New Stack

Looks interesting. We’ve had performance issues with our large db tables for years that we’ve managed to work around, but it’s likely time to take a look at a redesign around a newer technology.