Harvard and Ravel want to 'free the law' - Business Insider

"Can you apply big data to the legal industry?  That's exactly the question Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed, the co-founders of Ravel Law, asked when they were law students at Stanford. They were frustrated with the old way of doing legal research, which often involved reading through thousands of different cases to find information. If they could make research easier, they thought, then they would save students, lawyers, librarians, and paralegals thousands of hours of time — and make law firms more efficient in the process. When you sign up for Ravel, you instantly get access to thousands of cases and opinions going all the way back to the 19th Century — for free ..."