Justia’s 2023 Year in Review

The final 12 months has been a busy one for Justia! Try our 2023 12 months in evaluate for a take a look at what has been occurring with the Justia workforce and our highlights over the previous 12 months.

As 2023 involves an in depth, we’re wanting again in any respect that Justia has achieved this 12 months! Guided by our mission to make the regulation free and accessible for all, our workforce has targeting our free regulation tasks whereas additionally engaged on our state-of-the-art advertising options to assist attorneys obtain their targets.

Our devoted workforce spent numerous hours working to additional our targets this 12 months, from launching new options for our Justia Advertising Options to increasing the Justia Authorized Portal and extra! Maintain studying this publish to take a look at our workforce’s 2023 highlights.

Elevated Entry to the Legislation for All

The center of Justia is our mission to make the regulation free and accessible for all. The regulation belongs to all of us, and we sincerely imagine folks ought to have entry to the authorized info shaping the world round them. This 12 months, we continued to be guided by our mission to carry entry to the regulation to new heights!

A Look on the Numbers

Justia shared a lot of free info on-line this 12 months! The numbers assist illustrate simply what number of instances our workforce was in a position to join folks with the regulation.

The Particulars

The highlighted numbers solely inform a part of the story of how a lot free regulation Justia shared this 12 months. Taking a deeper dive into the small print paints a clearer image of what we had been in a position to accomplish.

Justia Authorized Dictionary

The common American doesn’t use authorized jargon in on a regular basis life. Serving to folks perceive these phrases is vital to empowering the general public with higher information concerning the regulation and authorized points. This 12 months, we launched the Justia Authorized Dictionary so guests to the Justia web site may extra simply perceive this language.

50-State Surveys for Customers

Whereas states have enacted parallel legal guidelines in some areas, their legal guidelines diverge vastly in others. This could result in completely different outcomes for folks in related conditions. This 12 months, we compiled a number of new 50-state surveys to assist folks higher perceive their rights. These surveys cowl widespread points and areas of the regulation, similar to marriage licenses, obligatory schooling, emancipation of minors, minimal wage legal guidelines, canine chew legal guidelines, dram store legal guidelines, drug possession legal guidelines, prison statutes of limitations, shopper safety legal guidelines, truthful debt assortment legal guidelines, revenue tax legal guidelines, civil statutes of limitations, and extra!

Data on Present Authorized Points

Members of the Justia Workforce shared breaking authorized information and updates on present points by way of the Justia Authorized Information weblog all year long.

Entry to Circumstances, Codes, and the Legislation

Individuals continued to make use of Justia to entry key provisions of the regulation all year long. Terry v. Ohio was the most well-liked U.S. Supreme Court docket case on our web site this 12 months with over 135,000 views. It was adopted by different landmark instances which have formed the U.S. authorized system, together with Roe v. Wade, Graham v. Connor, Marbury v. Madison, and Tennessee v. Garner.

Guests to the Justia Portal had been additionally notably keen on numerous areas of the regulation. The U.S. Code was standard with customers. The Fourth Modification of the U.S. Structure was probably the most considered federal constitutional provision this 12 months.

We additionally continued to develop entry to the regulation utilizing new mediums, with the launch of our Justia Authorized Guides Movies.

Serving to the Subsequent Technology of Legal professionals

In 2022, Justia was acknowledged with a LegalTech Breakthrough Award because the Authorized Schooling Innovation of the 12 months for its work with the Justia U.S. Legislation Colleges Heart. Justia continued to deal with serving to the following era of attorneys in 2023.

Our standard case case regulation outlines remained successful, with Sports activities Legislation, Civil Process, Contracts, Felony Process, Leisure Legislation, Felony Legislation, Enterprise Organizations, Constitutional Legislation, Household Legislation, and Trusts and Estates being probably the most visited outlines for college kids and different authorized fans over the previous 12 months.

Likewise, future attorneys took benefit of Justia’s assets whereas choosing an academic establishment. The John F. Kennedy College Faculty of Legislation, David A. Clarke Faculty of Legislation, George Washington College Legislation Faculty, Washington School of Legislation, and Georgetown College Legislation Heart had been probably the most incessantly considered establishments within the Justia U.S. Legislation Colleges Heart this 12 months.

Increasing Entry to the Legislation Overseas

Our workforce additionally continued to assist enhance entry to the regulation overseas with the addition of latest info to the Justia Mexico Portal and our different Latin American regulation portals.

Connecting Legal professionals and the Public

The Justia Lawyer Listing

All year long, Justia helped folks and attorneys higher join with each other. Practically 550,000 particular person attorneys throughout the nation had been considered within the Justia Lawyer Listing this 12 months – that’s multiple lawyer considered each minute in 2023!

Equally, potential purchasers initiated greater than 1.6 million cellphone calls to attorneys from the Justia Lawyer Listing. That’s a lot of customers reaching out to attorneys – greater than three calls initiated for each minute this 12 months – and that doesn’t rely emails and get in touch with kinds despatched by way of our listing!

Justia Ask A Lawyer

Customers additionally incessantly turned to Justia Ask A Lawyer for solutions to their fundamental authorized questions all year long. Attorneys throughout the nation answered the decision to take part on this discussion board. So many attorneys participated that over 20,000 customers obtained solutions to their questions from a licensed, U.S. legal professional.

Questions had been most incessantly obtained in 2023 from customers in California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Georgia. These questions had been most incessantly about points within the following observe areas: Felony Legislation, Household Legislation, Landlord-Tenant Legislation, Actual Property Legislation, and Employment Legislation.

Many customers this 12 months additionally incessantly searched the prevailing questions and solutions in our database somewhat than submitting new questions when needing info. Under are a few of the mostly searched key phrases and phrases over the previous 12 months:

Many attorneys throughout the nation answered the decision to take part in Justia Ask A Lawyer! These 10 attorneys, nevertheless, had been a few of the most lively attorneys on the platform this 12 months: James L. Arrasmith, T. Augustus Claus, John Michael Frick, Tim Akpinar, Anthony M. Avery, Timothy Denison, Joel Gary Selik, Terrence H. Thorgaard, Maurice Mandel II, and Robert Kane.

Serving to Legal professionals Obtain Their Targets

All year long, we continued to supply our merchandise designed to assist attorneys attain their full potential.

Justia Join

In 2021, Justia launched the Justia Join membership program for attorneys with Justia Join Professional following in 2022. In 2023, our membership continued to develop with nearly 5,000 new members becoming a member of.

We hosted over 20 Justia Webinars for our members all year long with over 15 of these webinars being eligible for CLE credit score. Justia’s efforts at educating attorneys by means of the Justia CLE & Webinars platform had been so profitable that they earned us one other LegalTech Breakthrough Award because the 2023 Authorized Schooling Innovation of the 12 months.

Justia Join members additionally had the chance to get updates from the Justia Onward Authorized Advertising and Expertise Weblog, which printed over 75 new articles this 12 months. Members additionally loved alternatives to avoid wasting with Justia Offers.

Legal professionals with the upgraded Justia Join Professional Membership additionally loved an enhanced Justia Lawyer Listing profile, a $200 Justia Credit score, the power to function critiques on their Justia Profile, and extra!

Justia Advertising Options

This 12 months, we continued to enhance the Justia Elevate platform with new instruments and options, such because the Justia AI Author. With Justia AI Author, attorneys can draft regulation agency web site content material in a fraction of the time! The data accessible within the Justia Elevate Data Base for purchasers continued to develop as nicely.

All year long, Justia continued to additionally supply our different companies, together with Justia Premium Placements for as much as 280x extra visibility on common within the Justia Lawyer Listing than our free profiles. Paid search engine advertising continued to be accessible for attorneys of all budgets with our Justia Amplify PPC administration options.

Constructing Workforce Justia

Our devoted workforce is the guts of Justia. Over 100 staff diligently work every day to make sure that all folks have higher entry to the regulation and that our purchasers can get pleasure from the perfect digital authorized advertising options accessible available on the market.

As our workforce continues to develop in numerous places, we prioritized team-building by means of quite a few digital occasions. We loved a lot of love and laughter in numerous occasions this 12 months, together with Justia’s Obtained Expertise, the annual Justia Ghoulie Awards, digital escape rooms, pleasant competitions, and extra!

Trying Forward to 2024

As 2023 winds to an in depth, Workforce Justia is worked up concerning the future! 2024 guarantees to be an thrilling 12 months as we eagerly work to extend entry to free regulation and assist attorneys obtain their targets. Control our weblog for thrilling updates within the new 12 months! We sincerely look ahead to assembly new milestones and sharing the information with all of you.

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