Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our live blog, sponsored by Casetext.
We're delighted to have a guest today: Jake Heller, the CEO and co-founder of Casetext.
Hey everyone, and thanks Tom. I’m excited to be here!
We'll discuss the remaining decisions and get to all your questions in just a moment. In the meantime - Jake, lots has been happening the last few weeks and months. How have things been going over at Casetext?
To that latter point, followers of SCOTUSblog likely saw our post about your free access program. Can you tell us a bit more about that?
Moving back to the court... last week was a big week with the Title VII (Bostock v. Clayton County) case that came down on the 15th. Was it also momentous for you all?
It is a very exciting week for the Court! We have been working on applying our Compose technology to Title VII anyway, and we were watching the Bostock opinion with great interest. We are delighted with the way it turned out.
Could you briefly describe what Compose is? Since it’s your new product, our readers may not be familiar.
Compose is litigation automation technology that assists attorneys in drafting briefs. So for example, it generally would take dozens of hours of attorney time to research and write a Title VII motion for Summary Judgment. But Compose organizes everything so that attorneys just have to choose which arguments they want to make. As a result, instead of dozens of hours, it would take only a couple hours to finish a first draft.
It was. I was particularly intrigued by the makeup of the majority. It’s going to be interesting to see how today’s cases come down and how the justices side.
Thanks so much, Jake. We'll turn now to everyone's questions - lots from you all before opinions in about 15 minutes. Jake, would love to have you stay on!
Good morning, everyone! Thanks for joining us, Jake, and thanks again to Casetext for sponsoring this live blog.
If you are new or new-ish here, one thing you may want to focus on in the FAQs is the discussion of "R" numbers, which is an unofficial signal about when the Court is finished issuing opinions for the day. Although I wrote the discussion, it is mostly thanks to Mark and our readers, because it is not something I had ever focused on before. Normally in non-pandemic times, I know when the Court is done issuing opinions for the day because one of the good folks in the PIO tells me so as they hand me the last opinion.
We're almost at that point of the year where we can recite all of the remaining decisions from memory, though.
As yet another reminder, and to follow up on Amy's suggestion that readers check the FAQs, pay attention to the "R" column at the far left on the court's Opinions of the Court page. If a number appears right away, that means just one opinion for the day. If it stays blank, expect another opinion in 10 minutes. Or so.
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