Peter M. Arnow

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• September 21, 1999, on Politics and Litigation:

  On the legal monopoly of West Publishing. A good example of a once necessary evil, the West citation system, refusing to give way to new tech. Although I haven't practiced law since '86, the dead tree approach of isles of book shelves and tables stacked with open volumes still lingers in my memory. You probably have considered a system of uploading all decisions, with citation links rather than page numbers, so I can upload my brief to the court's Net page. West's system is actually redundant. One can cite the original hard copy dicision as issued by the court, and a lot of the judges post these on the Net (West repaginates it in a condensed multi-column form). Wow, I can't think of anything more condusive to a good brief than html links.

• September 21, 1999, on Politics and Litigation:

  On the legal monopoly of West Publishing. A good example of a once necessary evil, the West citation system, refusing to give way to new tech. Although I haven't practiced law since '86, the dead tree approach of aisles of book shelves and tables stacked with open volumes still lingers in my memory. You probably have considered a system of uploading all decisions, with citation links rather than page numbers, so I can upload my brief to the court's Net page. West's system is actually redundant. One can cite the original hard copy dicision as issued by the court, and a lot of the judges post these on the Net (West repaginates it in a condensed multi-column form). Wow, I can't think of anything more conducive to a good brief than html links.