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Normal law firms write arguments the way commercial software companies write code.

Lawyers discuss a case behind closed doors, and although their final product is released in court, the discussions or " source code " that produced it remain secret.

In contrast, Open Law crafts its arguments in public and releases them under a copyleft.

" We deliberately used free software as a model ," said Wendy Seltzer, who took over Open Law when Lessig moved to Stanford.

Around 50 legal scholars worked on Eldritch's case, and Open Law has taken other cases, too.