About Us

Who we are

	Robb Shecter Lead Engineer robb@weblaws.org @dogweather linkedin.com/...
	Lisa Hackenberger Project Manager lisa@weblaws.org linkedin.com/...
	Bruke Getachew Product Manager bruke@weblaws.org @kidcouture linkedin.com/...

Free, easy access

We’re making this in order to:

• Increase access to the legal system by publishing accessible legal content and lowering the cost of legal research,
• Create new ways to browse and learn the law,
• Provide a basis for computer-assisted academic research and analysis of statutes.

High quality

We're aiming for the quality of a conventional legal publication by:

• Providing accurate citations to every source used by the 100,000+ pages,
• Eating our own dogfood: using the site on a daily basis and fixing bugs as we find them,
• Using current best practices in software development, such as test cases, open source components, and separation of content from presentation.

History

Robb started OregonLaws.org while a student at Lewis & Clark Law School. He was enrolled in two very statutes-oriented classes, Criminal Law and Wills & Trusts, that frequently made use of the Oregon Revised Statutes. He wanted online access that was easy to read, browse, and search, to avoid schlepping the statutes to class. Well, he couldn’t find it, so he started building it himself.