Several days ago a frustrated legal researcher sent out an open message to the leading online research service for lawyers:  “why don’t you just tell me the answer??!”  More or less this very question—you might better call it a cry of anguish—was the inspiration for Spindle Law.  At its heart, Spindle is an organized collection of answers to legal questions, together with supporting authorities and commentary.  If you’re a lawyer, I don’t have to tell you that legal questions often don’t have simple answers, or that sometimes they have two or more answers that contradict one another.  Spindle has room for answers of all kinds—the simple, the complex, and the conflicting.  Spindle won’t replace your other research service, but soon enough it will be telling you the answer(s) a lot of the time, so that you can get what you need from your other service a lot more quickly.  When Spindle doesn’t have the answer, you’ll be able to add it when you find it, so that you and the rest of us will have it the next time.

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