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MS Word vs. XML Editors

Government Efficiency Face-off: AI vs LegalDocML

Rekindling the Blog: A New Format for Exploring Legislative Technology

Opportunities for Legislative and Regulatory Drafting

Rules as Code (RaC), Government Efficiency, and Regulatory Burdens

Provisioning a Legislative Drafting Solution

Upgrading Your Legislative System

Collaborative Rule Drafting

Technology and Law

Changing the way the world legislates. Together.

How a Bill becomes a Law in Cities

Bussola Tech Leads International Dialogue on Legislative Modernization

Why Accountability and Teamwork is Important When Preparing Municipal Ordinances

The Next Generation of Bill Drafting

Zoning Ordinance and the Increasing Rate of Change

Local Governments in the United States Prioritize Cybersecurity Amid Digital Transformation and Growing Data Breach Threats

Golden Source for Local Law

Are You a City Attorney or City Clerk Still Using a Word Processor for Drafting and Amending Ordinances?

A passion for legislative drafting - and teaching

Working with WordPerfect, looking to the future

Interview with Luis Kimaid: A True North for Legislative Tech Transformation

Interview with Leonardo Barbosa: Tech Transformation in Brazilian Legislative Practice

Interview with Travis Moore: Bringing Tech Expertise to Congress

From Paper & Pens to Law-as-Code: Interview with Dr. John Mark Keyes

Modernizing the U.S. Government Publishing Office: A talk with Hugh Halpern

Digital Structure Empowers Policy Work: A talk with Vlad Eidelman of FiscalNote

XML-First Amending for Digital Democracy in Nova Scotia

Two Decades of GovTrack: Legislative Transparency for Democracy

Modernizing Congress

The Power of Open Standards

Digitizing the US Code

Data First — Year in Review

Democratizing Access To Legal Information: The Story of Fastcase with CEO Ed Walters

Interview with Lexum's Pierre-Paul Lemyre

Interview with GPSL’s Gareth Oakes

Meet Mark Montoya | Chief of Data Strategy, FDIC

Grant Vergottini on LEX2021 “Law as Code” Summer School

Building Regulation Management Software with User-Centered Design: A Case Study

Legislatures Around the World Gather to Discuss Digital Transformation at Parliamentarism Day 2021

Two Decades of Congressional Tech Modernization: An Interview with Daniel Schuman

How to Write Rules and Regulations as Data First: An Interview with Bank of England’s Angus Moir

Legislative Tech in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Illinois Rep. Will Guzzardi

Machine-Readable and Machine-Executable Legislation: A View of the Future, from the Island of Jersey

Digital Transformation in the Legislative Branch: An interview with Mark Stodder and Luís Kimaid

New series focused on legislative modernization efforts around the world drops today! Watch for free.

Modernizing the “High Speed Handoff” between the Legislative and Executive: An Interview with Treasury’s Adam Goldberg and Justin Marsico

Xcential and Lexum Announce Strategic Partnership to Streamline the Drafting and Publishing of Legislative/Regulatory Documents

State Legislatures of the Future: Interview with Xcential Co-Founder Bradlee Chang

Version Control for Law: Tracking Changes in the U.S. Congress

Building a bill drafting system is really hard!

Upcoming LEX Summer School

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

Why did we build our own XML editor?

What comes next in Legislative Information Technology

The Four Generations of Legislative Information Technology

How Technology Waves have Shaped Legislative IT

LegisPro Update

I Have a New Book – on Akoma Ntoso!

LegisPro Sunrise!!!

Using the Element Properly

LEX Summer School 2017

The Sun is Rising on Akoma Ntoso -- and LegisPro too!

Escaping a Technology Eddy

The many lives of JavaScript

Implementing an Akoma Ntoso Editor

Becoming Agile

Changing the way the world is governed. Together.

The (Supposed) Limitations of XML

Connected Information

Can GitHub be used to manage legislation?

LegisPro edit will soon be ready for beta!

Data Transparency Breakfast, LEX US Summer School 2015, First International Akoma Ntoso Conference, and LegisPro Edit reveal.

Coming soon!!! A new web-based editor for Akoma Ntoso

Upcoming U.S. and European events related to Akoma Ntoso

Akoma Ntoso (LegalDocML) is now available for public review

Achieving Five Star Open Data

2014 LEX Summer School & Developer's Workshop

Look how far legal informatics has come - in just a few years

Imagining Government Data in the 21st Century

What is Transparency?

2014 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference

Building a browser-based XML Editor

Tracking Changes with Legislative Drafting

Improving Legal References

Legal Citations and XML Editing for Legislation

Sheldon's Roommate Agreement - in Akoma Ntoso

Is it time to rethink how we are governed?

The U.S. Code in Akoma Ntoso

Web-Based XML Legislative Editor Update

Free Akoma Ntoso Validator

U.S. House of Representatives release the U.S. Code in XML

Akoma Ntoso Challenge by the Library of Congress

Transparent legislation should be easy to read

Legislative Data: The Book

2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference

XML, HTML, JSON - Choosing the Right Format for Legislative Text

Legal Reference Resolvers

Automating Legal References in Legislation

Legal Informatics Glossary of Terms

"A Bill is a Bill is a Bill!"