Corpus Juris aims to be the premier provider of online legal research materials and tools. In order to further this goal, the Corpus Juris web development team is embarking on a large-scale project of scanning, digitizing, and formatting original copies of laws, jurisprudence, and legal references for the site. Corpus Juris aims to raise the bar, if you will, in legal research by providing a myriad of valuable legal resources and services. These resources and services will be offered to serve not only the professional members of the bar and bench, but also business professionals, legal researchers, law students, and the general public.

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We’re back! After almost three weeks of work, the Corpus Juris team has finally completed the transition to a new server. In order to serve the public better, we have moved to a shiny new server platform running the latest PHP, MySQL, and Apache software. After contemplating the move, it was decided that the new site design that was already in development was to be released in conjunction with the relaunch. Several maintenance tasks were also undertaken to optimize several database tables that were becoming a hinderance to download and display speeds. This article enumerates all changes undertaken since the last version of the Corpus Juris website.

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The Supreme Court has just released the list of examinees who have successfully passed the 2008 Bar Examinations. This year, out of a total 6,634 examinees, only 1,310 were able to pass, a 19.7% passing rate. The passing rate was lowered to 72.5%, down from the regular 75% on all eight subjects in the exams. The following lists are taken straight from the Supreme Court website.

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