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+# Lawma task files
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+This repository contains the task files of the [Lawma](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16615) legal classification tasks. 
+These tasks were derived from the [Supreme Court](http://scdb.wustl.edu/data.php) and [Songer Court of Appeals](www.songerproject.org/us-courts-of-appeals-databases.html) databases.
+See the project's [GitHub repository](https://github.com/socialfoundations/lawma) for more details.
+
+Please cite as:
+```
+@misc{dominguezolmedo2024lawmapowerspecializationlegal,
+      title={Lawma: The Power of Specialization for Legal Tasks}, 
+      author={Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo and Vedant Nanda and Rediet Abebe and Stefan Bechtold and Christoph Engel and Jens Frankenreiter and Krishna Gummadi and Moritz Hardt and Michael Livermore},
+      year={2024},
+      eprint={2407.16615},
+      archivePrefix={arXiv},
+      primaryClass={cs.CL},
+      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16615}, 
+}
+```