Mike Lissner
Co-founder and executive director/CTO of the Free Law Project, leading efforts to collect and publish court documents and legal texts to expand public access to law and build open legal data tools.
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Jan 28, 2026 • 47min
The Monopolists Who Gatekeep the Court System
Mike Lissner, co-founder and CTO of the Free Law Project, builds open tools to publish court documents and legal texts. He unpacks how a duopoly turned public records into costly paywalled commodities. They explore PACER fees, citation control, crowdsourced fixes like RECAP, scanning reporter books, neutral citations, and why open legal data matters for access, security, and innovation.
