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<i><b>Product Review</b></i> JD Supra Seeks to Revolutionize Online Content for Lawyers

As summer associates struggle to answer obscure research questions over the next couple of months, and when their predecessors start full time this fall, they may find an answer to their late-night prayers in JD Supra, a new online service that offers completely free access (with registration) to a variety of documents, including legal memoranda, briefs and unpublished court decisions.

Inspiration for the service struck founder and San Francisco-based attorney, Aviva Cuyler, late one evening while she was writing a brief and wishing for a service like the one she created. 'I thought there should be a place where the legal community could share its work in a freely accessible database,' she says.

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