Blackstone (https://github.com/ICLRandD/Blackstone) is an experimental spaCy pipeline and model for performing Natural Language Processing on unstructured legal text. Created by Daniel Hoadley, formerly of the R&D arm of the verbosely named Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Blackstone is an adaptation of the ...

A tweet occurred. It asked: "Why are there almost no open source projects [in legaltech]?" The replies flooded in, duly recognizing Docassemble, QNAMarkup, Free Law Project, A2JAuthor, the Accord Project, the Jurism Project and a few others. I know of many, many others at all stages of maturity and complexity. And there's a lot of exci...