Ep 103: The Founders of Findlaw and Justia on 25 Years of Making Law Free

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twenty-five years ago, in the still-fledgling days of the web, the husband-and-wife team of</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tstanley/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tim Stanley</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacystern/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stacy Stern</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">founded</span> <a href= "https://www.findlaw.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">FindLaw</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and quickly developed it into the most highly trafficked legal site on the internet. In 2001, they sold FindLaw to the West Group, and two years later, they founded</span> <a href="https://www.justia.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Justia</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, repeating their earlier success and then some with what is now one of the most popular legal sites in the world. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout, their mission has remained the same: to make law and legal resources free for all. Whereas FindLaw started as a modest collection of links to legal resources, Justia is now one of the largest databases of cases, codes, and other legal resources, all available for free to the site’s visitors. It also supports various public interest and pro bono projects, including the</span> <a href= "https://fairuse.stanford.edu/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the</span> <a href="https://www.justia.com/lgbtq/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">LGBTQ Legal Resource Center</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the</span> <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Supreme Court Center</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Justia supports all this by selling</span> <a href= "https://www.justia.com/marketing/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">law firm marketi